Sentences with phrase «age girls adopted»

Our study expanded the literature to determine, within the adoptive context, how non-child-related family stress (NCR - family stress; e.g., parent's problems at work) and parenting styles were related to internalizing and externalizing problems in school - age girls adopted from China.

Not exact matches

And how fun to adopt little girls close in age, too!

Both boys and girls of all ages can be adopted from various countries including China, Russia, and Guatemala.

Their adoption journey took a surprising turn 4 years ago when they went from wanting to adopt a baby to fostering a sibling set of five, 3 boys and two girls, that at the time ranged in ages 5 - 13.

Nadine Dorries, a Tory backbencher who is starting to gain a reputation for adopting Christian positions on moral issues, introduced the ten minute rule bill, which would «require schools to provide certain additional sex education to girls aged between 13 and 16» and «to provide that such education must include information and advice on the benefits of abstinence from sexual activity».

White - colored men above 60 years old are now adopting interactions with fresh dark - colored girls and older bright women of all ages are in interactions with fresh dark - colored men.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The mother, saddened by the loss of her son, adopts a young girl of the same age, training her in the ways of kung fu.

The money I spent on them, and the habit I adopted of wearing a different one each day, seems to me now a haphazard indulgence, an attempt to prove that I was the kind of girl capable of throwing herself headlong into an affair with her boss — a married man twice her age — and escaping without consequence.

This study examined 1110 girls (6 to 8 years old at the time of the study) adopted from China before the age of two to determine whether history of neglect in infancy was associated with middle childhood competence.

After controlling for age at adoption, age, the adoptive mother's education level, household income, and the girls» corresponding behavior problems from the second wave of data (2 years prior), we found that that the association between NCR - family stress and the adopted Chinese girls» internalizing problems and externalizing problems was mediated by authoritarian parenting and moderated by authoritative parenting.

Family stress, parenting styles, and behavioral adjustment in preschool - age adopted Chinese girls.

My question is this: Do you think this book would be too «old» for a boy age 12 and a girls age 9, both from China, that are being adopted by a family in our church?

We recently adopted two girls from Congo, ages 5 and 7.

We adopted 2 little girls that are now ages 3 and 4... only 10 months apart!