Sentences with phrase «against child marriage»

Despite significant progress against child marriage, it remains a huge challenge.

Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba is on a three - day advocacy tour of the Northern Region against child marriage which is hampering girl child education.

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Thus our laws against incest, bigamy and child marriage reflect the belief that marriage, as defined by the State, is to be judged in terms of another and higher standard.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

In response, we believe in building strong marriages with our spouses and children as we start our own families, but wonder what this has to do with fighting against equal protection for gay couples.

My family had a false complaint against us and child and family services wanted to take our kids away from us which in the end they could not dig any trash up on me or anyone else, but that event has caused a crash of my marriage and not sure where that is going to end up.

Incidents of people being forced to work against their will under the threat of punishment, human trafficking, child slavery, and forced or early marriage are all considered forms of modern slavery, according to the Anti-Slavery International.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

The argument sounded most often against that understanding is that not every marriage between a man and a woman manages to bring forth children.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

I'm not over 10,000 children losing their sponsorships in a protest against gay marriage.

The older teleological view measured morality against man's rational - animal nature; in the sexual realm, this meant evaluating sex acts by reference to the common good of marriage, which integrated spousal union and the bearing and rearing of children.

Biblical commands against sex outside of marriage and divorce are designed to protect not only adults but also the next generation, the children who need a secure world of committed love and affection.

When we of the so - called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank - account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

Endeavour Forum is one of the few women's organisations which speaks out against the oppression of women under Islam — not just radical Islam as in ISIS and Boko Haram, but mainstream Islam which allows polygamy, child marriage, discrimination against women in divorce proceedings and inheritance laws.

Do not give money to an organization that has molested children, protected molesters and now promotes bigotry by being against gay marriage.

«I am against gay marriage as all cultures all over the world from the beginning of time developed marriage for a man and a woman to have children and was a ceromony to celebrate that union.»

first, that argues against gay adoption or other alternatives for gays having children, not marriage.

For every robot enthusiast, like artificial intelligent expert and Love and Sex With Robots author David Levy, who predicts human - robot marriages within in the next few decades, there's a naysayer, like Kathleen Richardson, founder of the Campaign Against Sex Robots, who worries that «the creation of such robots will contribute to detrimental relationships between men and women, adults and children, men and men and women and women.»

Carl Paladino, who is mulling a re-match against Gov. Andrew Cuomo next fall, is still angry about an incident during his failed 2010 bid during which he stood with Orthodox Jewish leaders in Brooklyn and pledged to «oppose the homosexual agenda» — especially same - sex marriage — and said children should not be «brainwashed» into believing that being gay is acceptable.

Addressing the Northern Regional House of Chiefs as part of her three - day campaign tour against early child marriage, she pleaded with the traditional authorities to support government's fight against the phenomenon.

It included videotapes of Proposition 8 proponents making often shocking claims against gay people — that gays were attempting to «indoctrinate» children to homosexuality, promote pedophilia, and aim for the «annihilation of marriage.»

During the recent meeting of the Organisation of African First Ladies against HIV & AIDS here in Accra, my husband President John Dramani Mahama launched the «Ending Child Marriage» Campaign.

She continued: «Forced marriage is terrible for those women, children and men who find themselves in an often violent and abusive situation against their will.

The Labour MP, who recently separated from his wife, said he was in no doubt that his campaigning against child abuse had affected his marriage:

Speaking at the 2016 National Children's Day Celebration, Buhari said: «Challenges posed by the total breakdown of societal values and the current unrestricted social media vices, which therefore, calls for an urgent need for all stakeholders to put all hands on deck in making conscious efforts at raising awareness of parents, family and communities at all levels on the critical role of protecting children against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early mChildren's Day Celebration, Buhari said: «Challenges posed by the total breakdown of societal values and the current unrestricted social media vices, which therefore, calls for an urgent need for all stakeholders to put all hands on deck in making conscious efforts at raising awareness of parents, family and communities at all levels on the critical role of protecting children against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early mchildren against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early mchildren, forced and early marriage.

Speaking in Abuja to mark 2016 National Children's Day Celebration, President Buhari said, «Challenges posed by the total breakdown of societal values and the current unrestricted social media vices, which therefore, calls for an urgent need for all stakeholders to put all hands on deck in making conscious efforts at raising awareness of parents, family, communities at all levels, on the critical role of protecting the children against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early mChildren's Day Celebration, President Buhari said, «Challenges posed by the total breakdown of societal values and the current unrestricted social media vices, which therefore, calls for an urgent need for all stakeholders to put all hands on deck in making conscious efforts at raising awareness of parents, family, communities at all levels, on the critical role of protecting the children against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early mchildren against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early mchildren, forced and early marriage.

According to him, he would ensure that no Nigerian was put through the brutality of abduction, violence in whatever form or forced marriage, even as he challenged all stakeholders to rise up and take a decisive action to stem what he termed, the unacceptable cases of violence and intimidation against Nigeria children.

Meanwhle, Buhari also on Friday, warned against forced marriages and child abduction in the country, noting that every child has the right of education and the right to live.

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However questions were raised about the suitability of the new children's minister, Robert Goodwill, to preside over SRE changes after Schools Week revealed that Goodwill voted against the legalisation of same - sex marriage.

Stephen Robertson, in his article «Age of Consent Laws», states: «Narrowly concerned with sexual violence, and with girls, originally, since the 19th century the age of consent has occupied a central place in debates over the nature of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and been drawn into campaigns against prostitution and child marriage, struggles to achieve gender and sexual equality, and the response to teenage pregnancy.»

Against the background of the political upheaval and violence in Italy during the seventies, Elena details significant incidents in her own life: the mixed reception to her novel, her marriage, children, her further attempts at writing, her encounters with her dear friend, Lila and with the man she has always loved, Nino Sarratore.

Set against the backdrop of a school shooting, the story reveals the tragedy of the loss of a child through inexplicable violence and the related impacts on marriage, family and community (Peggy C).

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

For exactly these reasons the challenge of silence and the demand for visibility has long been a key component of social right campaigns - against racism, sexism, child abuse and campaigns for gay rights and marriage.

This overwhelmingly «christian» congress represents an overwhelming «christian» nation has that: performs a million abortions a year, has out 40 % of births out of wedlock (approaching 70 percent in minority communities), has a Supreme Court that has ruled that virtual child pornography is protected by the first amendment, has a culture that teaches ever younger girls (through movies, music, tv, books and magazines) that their primary function is as living sex toys for men, forces religions to provide insurance to include abortifacients against their faith, and is rapidly redefining marriage by judicial edict.

This means that good population advocacy should always Speak Out against oppressive cultural practices such as gender - based violence, female genital mutilation, and child marriage.

Successfully defended deceased Settlor's wife in Trust Contest against her by Settlor's children from his first marriage who alleged undue influence.

Every three years, and especially each time a major life event happens (e.g., marriage, birth of a child, home purchase), you should compare your current financial obligations against your policy to make sure you're still adequately covered for the right length of time.

These plans provide risk cover for loss of income, financial liabilities (home loan and other loans), financial responsibilities (children's education, marriage etc.) against untimely death of the family bread earner.

Sometimes, however, one spouse can't let go of the bitterness and anger caused by the failed marriage; consciously or unconsciously, the angry ex attempts to turn the children against the other parent.

Dr. Doherty... as I have dealt with my own (unwanted) divorce some 30 years ago, the divorce of friends, the marriage issues of my children's marriages, and the marriages of my clients, I have always felt that I was «doing something wrong» (against my training) when I would ask the question «What would be right for others in your life?»

Financial struggles, young children, and aging parents put tremendous pressure on a marriage, and are key struggles that most couples will run up against at some point in their marriage.

Unlike no - fault, where the grounds for the dissolution of the marriage are irretrievable breakdown, covenant marriages may be ended on grounds of 1) adultery, 2) conviction of a felony which mandates prison or death; 3) abandonment for more than one year, 4) commission of domestic violence against the spouse, child or relative, 5) living separately and continuously and without reconciliation for over two years, 6) living separately for over 1 year after a legal separation is obtained; 7) habitual use of drugs and alcohol, or 8) both spouses agree to the dissolution.

(3) A parent who desires to file a legal action against a court - appointed psychologist who has acted in good faith in developing a parenting plan recommendation must petition the judge who presided over the dissolution of marriage, case of domestic violence, or paternity matter involving the relationship of a child and a parent, including time - sharing of children, to appoint another psychologist.

He said that, despite the odds against their marriage, children of divorce are often more motivated to make marriage work in order to «redeem what they've lost» in the divorce of their parents, namely stability and the chance at a conventional family home.

These ideas are also the foundation of my community work for marriage in The Family Formation Project, where we work with urban unmarried couples who have a child and a desire to make their relationships work against great odds.

This provision references the District's domestic violence or «intrafamily offense» statute, which defines domestic violence as any criminal act against a person with whom the person has a relationship by blood, marriage, legal custody, having a child in common, having lived together at some point or having had a romantic relationship.

The main results show that (a) mothers promote family integrity in stepfamilies either with the partner, or with the father, but not with both; (b) the older the child, the less the mothers reported integrity with the father in both families, and the more they reported disparagement against the partner and conflict with the partner in stepfamilies; and (c) maternal marital satisfaction is linked with all dimensions of coparenting with the father in first - marriage families, but only with disparagement against the partner and conflict with the partner in stepfamilies.