On the contrary, the scientific research that has directly compared outcomes for children with gay and lesbian parents with outcomes for children with heterose xual parents has consistently shown that the former are as fit and capable as the latter and that their children are as psychologically healthy and well adjusted
as children reared by heterose xual parents.
On the contrary, the scientific research that has directly compared outcomes for children with gay and lesbian parents with outcomes for children with heterosexual parents has consistently shown that the former are as fit and capable as the latter and that their children are as psychologically healthy and well adjusted
as children reared by heterosexual parents.
On the contrary, the scientific research that has directly compared outcomes for children with gay and lesbian parents with outcomes for children with heterose xual parents has consistently shown that the former are as fit and capable as the latter and that their children are as psychologically healthy and well adjusted
as children reared by heterose xual parents... mama k
Of course marriage encompasses many other things such
as child rearing but that is no excuse to not make time for sex, even if you have to give up some thing in order to make it happen.
And I would of course conclude that to not have children is not selfish,
as child rearing is to spend your days tending to a thing that you created, it's needs are needs you created out of yourself etc..
We are definitely the black sheep in our families as far
as child rearing goes.
Not exact matches
Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how
children are raised around the world and how
child -
rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special
as a species is that we don't limit care to our own
children.
As complicated as it may be for adults to navigate the child - rearing process with their young boys and girls, it's important for parents to stay mentally strong and help their children prepare for challenges they might fac
As complicated
as it may be for adults to navigate the child - rearing process with their young boys and girls, it's important for parents to stay mentally strong and help their children prepare for challenges they might fac
as it may be for adults to navigate the
child -
rearing process with their young boys and girls, it's important for parents to stay mentally strong and help their
children prepare for challenges they might face.
But lifetime earnings will reach only 60 million yen if they leave the workforce after the birth of their first
child and return
as part - time workers after
rearing their second.
Just
as I was oblivious for much of my life to the problems posed by bearing and
rearing children, so humankind was blissfully undisturbed for most of....
Just
as I was oblivious for much of my life to the problems posed by bearing and
rearing children, so humankind was blissfully undisturbed for most of its history by the conundrums this book addresses.
No longer then is the bearing and
rearing of
children thought of
as a task we should take up or
as a return we make for the gift of life; instead, it is a project we undertake if it promises to meet our needs and desires.
We accept this pattern of human sexuality
as a foundation for human society, and we celebrate the healthy relationships of mutual service that embody it» above all, the divinely ordained covenant of marriage between one man and one woman prepared to bear and
rear each succeeding generation of
children.
But
children are not intended by God to be brought into the world outside the marriage bond, nor is single parenthood endorsed in scripture
as a providential way of
rearing children.
In most areas, Paul allowed others to make their own choices, but some «spiritual fathers» today want families to check with him regarding such things
as vacation planning, job transfers, financial management, and
child rearing.
Sexual exploitation of the unborn, the new born and youth of both sexes, together with the fact that even free men and women were expected to marry (usually arranged) and bear and
rear children as a duty to empire and family, meant for many Christians that the only route to personal liberty led through the «freedom» of celibacy.
He has devoted nearly 20 years to strengthening the infrastructure of heterosexual marriage, and he fears that the rise of same - sex marriage will open a floodgate of aberrations, such
as polygamy and group marriage, and will destroy the role that marriage has in bringing women and men together for the sake of having sex and
rearing children.
This means facing honestly such issues
as their emotional maturity, capacity to bear the responsibilities of
child -
rearing, and their deep feelings about each other.
Even marriage, Locke holds, is finally to be understood
as a contract whose conditions are temporary and subject to revision, particularly once the duties of
child -
rearing are completed.
When Bruno Bettelheim committed suicide in 1990 at the age of 86 he had a towering and broadly based reputation:
as a wise and humane
child psychiatrist in whose Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago hundreds of severely disturbed
children had been restored to normal life,
as an expert on
child -
rearing in the Israeli kibbutzim,
as a survivor of Buchenwald and Dachau whose writings had established him
as an authority on life in the concentration camps, and
as a specialist in the treatment of autistic
children.
Some may be somewhat in limbo because of differing opinions
as to what is right, for example, abortion which is regarded by some
as horribly immoral and by others
as a legitimate step in some cases toward better family life with better
rearing of those
children who are born, and toward a better - fed world.
Congress identified the following purposes: the promotion of «self - discipline and other prudent approaches to the problem of adolescent premarital sexual relations,» the promotion of adoption
as an alternative for adolescent parents, the development of new approaches to the delivery of care to pregnant teenage girls, and the support of research and demonstration projects «concerning the societal causes and consequences of adolescent premarital sexual relations, contraceptive use, pregnancy, and
child rearing.»
These included — how to deepen a marriage relationship neglected during frantic
child -
rearing, getting - ahead years; maintaining self - esteem in the midst of increasing evidence of aging; coping with stresses of «adolescing
children»; dependency and death of parents; menopause; the emptying nest; wives» need to develop new satisfactions
as children leave.
I Timothy 5:8 is a favorite of anti-SAHD pastors to toss out and use
as biblical justification for why men MUST be the breadwinner and leave the responsibilities of full time
child -
rearing and running a household to their wives.
as his missing bodily half, woman,
as generative, turns her broader desire on her particular husband
as provider for and protector of her
children, and
as partner in their
rearing.
Despite the hardships connected with their
rearing, no one who understands would see
children mainly
as a burden.
The younger brother of her husband failed to honor his obligation to take her
as his wife and
rear children in honor of the deceased.
But,
as the original author notes, this is controlling for the pathways, striving to depict
as normal something that is almost nonexistent in any meaningful statistical sense: stable, faithful, long - term same - sex couples heading households with
children in them and
rearing them from early childhood to adulthood.
In today's society also they are terrorized
as rape victims, toys or dolls in media, lambs to follow men, brides to be burnt alive for dowry and baby - producing machines, who work with wombs, breasts, and hands in
rearing children.
This giving of one's self, which is the definition of conjugal love, must lead in its normal development to paternity or maternity in a spiritual sense, just
as marriage does in a physical sense through procreation,
rearing, and education of
children.
Marriage is,
as Russell argues, a biological institution to beget and
rear children for the ends of particular communities.
There was a time, not too terribly long ago, when I could have been somewhat confident that I could help lay the intellectual foundations for a life of thoughtful responsibility when,
as seemed almost inevitable, the usual vehicle for social commitment and responsibility — marriage and
child -
rearing — came up in their lives.
As great as children are, the main goal of child - rearing is to help them grow up to become productive members of societ
As great
as children are, the main goal of child - rearing is to help them grow up to become productive members of societ
as children are, the main goal of
child -
rearing is to help them grow up to become productive members of society.
To exercise such responsible parenthood with regard to the birth
as well
as the
rearing of
children is not to thwart the ways of God but to be responsive to them.
This fact stands
as a constant answer to the various proposals, appearing at intervals from the time of Plato's writing of The Republic to the present, to place the general care and
rearing of
children in institutions.
In other words that,
as co-creators with God, they bring
children into the world and
rear them in the setting of family love, so
as to prepare them for a life that can lead to Heaven.
Numbers of
children were taken from Christian parents and
reared as Moslems.
Mindful of the ghosts of Herod's excess, our business in this Advent season is to treat our own
children as God's gift to us, despite the overwhelming burdens and responsibilities of parenthood and
child -
rearing in our society.
On the other hand, baptized
children require
rearing in the faith just
as any
child requires instruction in order to develop his or her human capacities.
There are many illustrations of their nostalgic attachment to the old ways, such
as their tendency to escape into the desert for sports and physical and spiritual refreshment, the practice of sending their
children to be
reared in Bedouin encampments to protect them from the effects of city life, and the legends of the desert which beguile their evening hours.
As the heaviest demands of child rearing diminish, and as freedom from worry about unwanted pregnancies comes with menopause, couples can enjoy a flowering of sensualit
As the heaviest demands of
child rearing diminish, and
as freedom from worry about unwanted pregnancies comes with menopause, couples can enjoy a flowering of sensualit
as freedom from worry about unwanted pregnancies comes with menopause, couples can enjoy a flowering of sensuality.
Many see marriage's main purpose
as a way to raise
children together, although if couples aren't on the same page about
child -
rearing, well, it's problematic.
A recent analysis of the Longitudinal Study of Australian
Children (LSAC) found that, in fathers, a higher parenting self - efficacy score was related to lower work - family strain; and a key mechanism by which fathers» work / family strain was decreased was by their doing more than they regarded
as their «fair share» of
child rearing tasks.
It was a way to make sure property could be passed to heirs, alliances could be forged (often to avoid wars),
children could be
reared, society could be assured that caregiving would be taken care of and a lot of other practical matters,
as historian and Marriage, a History author Stephanie Coontz has extensively detailed.
It seems to come down to a few desirable traits — warmth, affection, thoughtfulness, being nurturing — and,
as the Pew notes, similar
child -
rearing views versus being a woman who has a steady job.
Because of her words, I forced myself to slow down and make my own choices using information I gathered from experts, instead of just assuming I could trust the other new moms around me
as my main source of information on
child -
rearing.
A: The bad thing is that parents approach
child rearing as a project.
Intensive parenting, according to anthropologist Solveig Brown, author of All on One Plate: Cultural Expectations on American Mothers, «views
children as innocent and priceless, and assumes that mothers will be the primary parent responsible for using
child -
rearing methods that are
child - centered, expert - guided, emotionally absorbing, labor - intensive, and financially expensive.»
For a
child as large
as Charlie, I tend to always opt for the
rear carry.
Indeed, some pediatricians and
child -
rearing experts have come to espouse a revival of old parenting practices, such
as extended breastfeeding and sleeping in the same bed with
children — what some call «co-sleeping.»