Sentences with phrase «against adults or children»

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The transfer shares a good part of the blame for the financial squeeze that leaves young adults unable to afford a family of more than one or two children, as journalist Duncan Hood discusses in «The war against the family.»

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

«Our parents, young adults, teens and children should therefore, of all people, be especially sensitive to the vulnerable in society and be willing to speak out against bullying or intimidation whenever it occurs, including unkindness toward those who are attracted to others of the same sex.

Contact the police if your child is being contacted or harassed by an adult, if any threats are made against your child, or if efforts to stop the harassment have failed.

Still, exceptions exist for when removing a child from foster care would go against that child's best interest — in these cases, especially when a child is living with another relative or adult sibling, the child may be left in foster care until a proper adoption can be arranged.

In May 1999, the Consumer Product Safety Commission [CPSC] released a warning against cosleeping or putting babies to sleep on adult beds that was based on a study of death reports of children under the age of two who had died from 1980 to 1997.

I am assuming you did not spank your teenagers or adult children when they did something against your wishes.

In order for an adult seat belt to fit a child properly, the child must be able to bend their knees at the edge of the seat, the lap belt should sit across the thighs or lower hip and the shoulder belt should fit against the shoulder and chest.

Historically much of the scientific community has rallied vigorously against any attempt by the humane community to regulate in any way what may be done to animals in the name of research and education, even by grade school children working with little or no training and qualified adult supervision.

It was against the rules for children or adults to look at another's nakedness; but the rule did not apply to newchildren or the Old.

Basically, the premise involves three adult men that, for reasons that aren't really made clear, play baseball against young children in some sort of national little league, and they become heroes for all of the kids that are outcasts, dorks or mentally deficient.

BeatBullying has long been campaigning for the introduction of a Schools Safety Bill and a Cyber-Bullying Act, which would make it explicitly against the law to bully or harass a child, young person and adult in and around school or online.»

The driver's and front passenger's side airbags are fitted with Honda's Occupant Position Detection System (OPDS)-- an innovative technology that deactivates the side airbag if sensors determine that a child or small stature adult is leaning against the door.

Adults can file suit against you, but are you violating the privacy or endangering the emotional stability of children?

Whether it's violence against an animal, child, or an adult, we should all do something to stop it from happening.

Thus, when an adult in whose care a child has been entrusted knows or has reason to know of the dangers of varnish inhalation or skin contact with wet varnish and fails to take precautions against a child's inhalation of varnish fumes or contact with wet varnish, that adult may be found liable in an action in negligence for the child's resulting injuries.

When an adult or child sustains a personal injury or dies as a result of the negligence of an individual or entity, the negligent party may be held liable for the damages suffered by the injured victim or victim's family in a negligence or wrongful death action brought against the responsible parties.

He has experience in bringing judicial review claims against local authorities and other public bodies and is committed to acting for extremely vulnerable children or adult clients with specialist needs.

Once Mr. Khadr is repatriated, it will be up to officials in the Canadian justice system to conduct an independent assessment of admissible evidence against him, to determine whether this evidence supports charges under Canadian law, and if so, whether he should be tried as an adult or a child.

Consideration should also be given to whether the reporting or disclosure restrictions will provide sufficient protection from the risk, whether the safety of the parties in cases where the court considers there are particular physical or health risks against which reporting restrictions may be inadequate to afford protection, and the extent to which the court should, of its own motion, take steps to protect the welfare of any vulnerable adult or child who is unrepresented before the court.

How do you balance a child's need for higher education or their special talents against them not being able to support themselves as young adults because their schooling or training may prevent them from working?

The case for outlawing child pornography is unambiguous because, even if the depictions are not harmful or obscene, such conduct involves physical and emotional injury to children who lack the legal and actual capacity to consent; whereas with adult pornography consent is not in issue, though offences against the person may make it so.

And with a permanent * policy, the cash value that grows over time can provide funds that can be borrowed against or withdrawn as the child grows into an adult.

«In order to achieve the child protection goals of the government, it is essential that all adult companies comply or are enforced against in a very short timeframe from the date of enforcement,» a MindGeek spokesperson tells Inverse.

Parental Alienation is caused when one parent or other significant adult turns the child against the other parent or family members.

The Child and Family Agency may seek a safety or barring order against a violent adult on behalf of a child, whether or not that violent adult is married to the child's paChild and Family Agency may seek a safety or barring order against a violent adult on behalf of a child, whether or not that violent adult is married to the child's pachild, whether or not that violent adult is married to the child's pachild's parent.

«The National Family Violence Survey upon which Straus bases his major conclusions about the relative rates of violence by partners and against children rely solely on self - reported acts of force by adults, do not determine whether these acts actually occurred, employ a definition of child abuse that bears little or no relation to the definitions used in the child welfare field or by the courts, and take no account of actual consequences, such as injury.

He or she may have been successful in turning the child against the parent during the child's formative years, manipulating the child into regarding him / her as the «favored» parent, or creating physical distance in some way, but once that child becomes an adult, he or she will see both sides.

A research assistant contacted the interested parents and conducted a screening interview by telephone, ensuring the families belonged to the target group (e.g. parents with children in conflict with peers, parents or other adults, protesting against demands, often restless, having friends with bad influence or having been involved in vandalism, shoplifting or truancy)(Bjornsdotter 2014).

She is the author or co-author of 8 books, including Adult children of parental alienation syndrome: Breaking the ties that bind (WW Norton, 2007), Working with alienated children and families (Routledge, 2013), Co-parenting with a toxic ex: What to do when your ex-spouse tries to turn the kids against you (New Harbinger, 2014), Surviving parental alienation (RI, 2017), Research methods in child welfare (Columbia University Press, 2008) and is the author of over 65 peer reviewed articles.