Sentences with phrase «already fragile families»

This is bad for kids and spouses as well as mothers, and tends to strain sometimes already fragile families.

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This study, which used data collected from 2008 to 2016, would have been impossible without the dedication to research from families who had another older child already diagnosed with fragile X syndrome.

We have seen vulnerable children and families bear the brunt of our state's budget problems before, but never at a time when the service - delivery infrastructure is already incredibly fragile and on the very edge of collapse.

Cohabiting couples who have a child in their twenties and then break up — and that's almost two - fifths of them in the first five years — often also go on to have another partner or partners.44 One study of young urban parents based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study found that for 59 percent of unmarried couples with a baby, at least one partner already had a child from a previous relationship.

In 2013, the actress gave a moving speech at the Golden Globes that many interpreted as her publicly confirming her sexuality, saying: «This is not going to be a big coming - out speech tonight because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the stone age — in those very quaint days when a fragile girl would open up to trusted friends and family and coworkers and then gradually proudly to everyone who knew her.»