Sentences with phrase «among white children»

Among white children, 26.6 % are born out of wedlock.

However, it turns out that the black children in our sample were less responsive to changes in socioeconomic status than the white children: a one - standard - deviation improvement in socioeconomic status for a black child was associated with a 0.18 standard deviation increase in math scores, compared with 0.32 among white children.

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What is the real ignorance among African Americans is that the majority of their children are born out of wedlock, significant numbers of their men have taken a particular liking to prison, if white women have had to deal with the degree of lack of care and sympathy that black men have given to their responsibilities — they'd be angry too.

These are among the items promoted for Holy Week: two polemics against white racism, an attack on the tobacco industry, three murder mysteries, one story about a serial murderer, a comedy about soap operas, a story on the sexual abuse of children, and a drama about vampire families in San Francisco.

«More than 2,000 years ago, a child was born to two faithful travelers who could find rest only in a stable, among the cattle and the sheep,» Obama said at the tree lighting ceremony, a longstanding White House tradition.

Repeated studies have shown that there is a greater incidence of child molestation and incest among southern white evangelical christians than in any other group that participated in the study.

Clearly, all of Michelle Obama's digging in the White House garden, among other attempts to steer the nation's children toward fresh fruits and vegetables, just got clobbered.

CDC analyzed 2011 — 2015 National Immunization Survey (NIS) data for children born during 2010 — 2013 to describe breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity through 6 months and duration at 12 months among black and white infants.

To investigate whether perinatal outcomes among interracial Asian - white couples are different than among Asian - Asian and white - white couples.This was a retrospective study of Asian, white, and Asian - white couples delivered at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital from 2000 - 2005.

Among white evangelical Protestants, 69 % say it's better for children if a parent is at home to focus on the family, and 26 % say children are just as well off when their parents work outside the home.

With the exception of otitis media and childhood leukemia, each of these conditions has a documented black / white health disparity, with higher rates observed among black (vs. white) children (16 — 23).

When Gregory J. White was a young doctor in Franklin Park in the 1950s, he noticed a sense of frustration among his patients who wanted to breast - feed their children, but had no resources or support.

Look, a cult of keeping a child at the breast until advanced age has become a trend among primarily white, educated, affluent women, the blogger is simply making a point that there is no concrete science to back - up the claims being made for the benefits.

When Nadeau entered the looming white building and peered into the barracks, she saw children piled onto rows of Army - style bunk beds — and among them, adults who had seeded the outbreak and were crowded out of their own quarters.

The researchers also discovered increased use of these medications among boys, white children and those without private health insurance during the 16 - year study period, 1994 - 2009.

There was some evidence of racial / ethnic disparities — among four - year - olds, rates of early evaluation were lower in black children than in white children.

Among the 100 largest metropolitan areas, Los Angeles has one of the highest rates of segregation between white and Latino children, even after adjusting for the large Latino child population in Los Angeles, Owens said.

Further analyses show that graft failure and mortality rates remained higher among minority groups compared to white children after accounting for differences in demographic, clinical, and socioeconomic factors.

Greater odds of the prevalence of having a chronic condition during any part of the 6 - year study period were found among black children (46.6 %; 95 % CI, 43.6 % -49.7 %) and Hispanic children (42.3 %; 95 % CI, 38.4 % -46.3 %) compared with non-Hispanic white children (36.8 %; 95 % CI, 34.7 % -38.9 %)(adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 1.60; 95 % CI, 1.35 - 1.90, and AOR, 1.36; 95 % CI, 1.11 - 1.67, respectively)(Table 3).

The white bumps are often caused by oral thrush (both in children and adults), leukoplakia, oral lichen planus, and canker sores, injuries (from biting, burning, dental appliances), piercings and jewelry, among other conditions.

Over the next five years, Kim will work with a team of researchers including Thomas White, senior research scientist at the University of Virginia Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning; and Jonathan Guryan, associate professor at Institute for Policy Research of Northwestern University, along with Communities In Schools of North Carolina and Durham Public Schools to implement, validate, and scale up an innovative approach to combat summer reading loss among low - income children.

Indeed, research shows that among Medicaid - eligible children with autism diagnoses, white children are diagnosed over a year earlier than black children.

Among white respondents with a 4 - year college degree, 88 % want their child to pursue a 4 - year degree, compared to 57 % of white respondents without a 4 - year college degree.

The white matter variations accounted not only for the range of scores among typical readers but also for the differences in performance between these children and others with a likely reading disability.

How to Raise More Grateful Children (Wall Street Journal) «In some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Among U.S. fourth graders whose reading achievement was in the lowest 5 % of the distribution — children who were all experiencing clinically significant and severe reading difficulties — over 80 % of white children were receiving additional help through special education.

Among children displaying the same clinical needs, white children are more likely to receive special education services than racial or ethnic minority children.

Among the examples it uses to refute those myths are that in 1990, white women had more than half of all the babies born to unmarried women; that in 1992, 56 percent of all poor children lived in suburbs or rural areas; and that families on welfare have on average...

On average, black students in the sample had 39 children's books in their home, compared with an average of 93 books among white students.

Hispanic children do not experience this widening test - score gap relative to otherwise similar white students; indeed, they systematically close the gap, perhaps because their initial scores are artificially low due to the relative inexperience with the English language among some immigrants and their children (see Figure 2).

However, our results show that the achievement gap, while negligible among black and non-Hispanic white children with similar characteristics when they enter kindergarten, expands as they grow older.

Among KIPP teachers, it says, there are «young parents who leave at 5 p.m. to pick up their children from daycare, part - time teachers who job share, and teachers who continue to work past 5 p.m.» It says 53 percent of KIPP teachers are white and 47 percent are African American, Hispanic or Asian American.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

White suburban moms, among many others, have certainly played an important role in organizing resistance to high - stakes tests in actions that have led to important victories in Texas, New York, and beyond as they fight to defend their children from abuse by a multibillion - dollar testing industry that is homogenizing education and draining resources from cash strapped school districts.

The data also found that among pupils eligible for free school meals, white children had the lowest rate of entry to grammar schools.

Far too many children — disproportionate numbers of low - income students and students of color among them, but many white students as well — have such low reading and mathematics skills that they will be forever locked out of decent jobs and full participation in our democracy if we don't do something different, and do it fast.

The focus on negative outcomes among black men has led to programs to instill «grit,» charter schools that «sweat the small stuff,» i.e. suspend and expel children, and other initiatives that dismiss the effects of housing and employment discrimination, access to capital and the prison - industrial complex on black families while privileging white men.

Standing among governors, teachers, superintendents and students in the White House's East Room Friday morning, President Barack Obama asserted his administration's reforms to the federal No Child Left Behind act would minimize the need for educators to «teach to the test.»

Black parents embrace in white neighborhoods embrace the idea that living among white people will prepare their children for dealing with racism and majority white environments in the future (Pugh, 2009).

Myers does an outstanding job of re-creating the theater of war — from the tedium that breeds violence and vicious words among American comrades (black against white, black against black, white against white, and man against man), to the sudden shock, the pain, the confusion, and the stark terror that brings soliders face - to - face with their ideals, their religious beliefs, and their morality — in a world where a mother turns her child into a human bomb, an officer sends men into combat only to reap honors for himself.

Among them are a spittoon shaped like a black man's head, a golliwog - costumed mannequin, a Topsy - Turvy doll that allowed children to flip between a black servant boy and his white counterpart, and several sculptures of small black slave boys.

For instance, an image titled Sandwich illustrates a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on white bread, a popular and simple for among many children and hat many children outgrow.

Small institutions in North Dakota, South Carolina, and Wyoming each received $ 1,000 for such purposes, among them the State Historical Society of North Dakota (for «House & Home,» about the American Dream and the representational power of objects, communities, and buildings); the Upcountry History Museum at Furman University (for «Spirited, Prohibition in America,» about the temperance movement and 1920s America); and Washakie Museum in Worland, Wyoming (for «Power of Children: Making a Difference,» about the stories of Anne Frank, Ruby Bridges, and Ryan White).

Same - sex couples in the South have among the highest rates of childrearing in the country, and same - sex couples of color are more likely to be raising children than white couples.

Our data reconfirm that vigorous activity among ethnic minority children is lower than in non-Hispanic white children.17, 18 Such information must be considered when developing physical education curricula and community - based intervention strategies aimed at increasing physical activity among different target populations.

In 1986, Olds et al published the results of a rigorous trial showing that nurse home visitation extending from pregnancy to the child's second birthday can produce positive effects on maternal and child health among disadvantaged families.1, 2 The study was conducted in a semirural area and involved predominantly white women.

Some research suggests that the academic deficits associated with living with a single mother are less pronounced for black than for white children.37 One study found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted lower socioeconomic attainment among white women, white men, and black women, but not among black men.38 McLanahan and Sandefur found that white offspring from single - parent families were more likely to drop out of high school than were African American offspring from single - parent families.39 African American children may thus adjust better than white children to life in single - parent families, although the explanation for this difference is not clear.

Greater odds of the prevalence of having a chronic condition during any part of the 6 - year study period were found among black children (46.6 %; 95 % CI, 43.6 % -49.7 %) and Hispanic children (42.3 %; 95 % CI, 38.4 % -46.3 %) compared with non-Hispanic white children (36.8 %; 95 % CI, 34.7 % -38.9 %)(adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 1.60; 95 % CI, 1.35 - 1.90, and AOR, 1.36; 95 % CI, 1.11 - 1.67, respectively)(Table 3).

White H.R. and Widom, C.S. (2008) Three potential mediators of the effects of child abuse and neglect on adulthood substance use among women.

Despite the significant impact of maternal depression on mothers and children alike, maternal mental health needs are often neglected or undiagnosed.18 Prevalence rates of maternal depression are high among low - income women due to the greater challenges they may face related to financial hardships, low levels of community or familial support, and societal prejudice.19 In fact, the prevalence of maternal depression among low - income women in the United States is double the prevalence rate for all U.S. women.20 At the same time, these women are less likely to receive treatment or be screened for postpartum depression.21 Studies show there are clear racial and ethnic disparities in who accesses treatment in the United States, even among women of the same general socio - economic status: In a multiethnic cohort of lower - income Medicaid recipients, 9 percent of white women sought treatment, compared with 4 percent of African American women and 5 percent of Latinas.22