Sentences with phrase «as is grandparent»

Depending on the circumstances, shared custody and sole custody are both possibilities, as is grandparent visitation.

As were my grandparents, but they didn't shelter anyone.

And as well as being a grandparent, you might have other commitments — for example, work, caring for an elderly parent or just enjoying time to yourself.

Not exact matches

If you're unfamiliar, the tech in question is the same as what your parents or grandparents once used to get TV: An antenna that picks up the free broadcast shows that are sent via high transmission tours by the likes of ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox.

While I for one am absolutely thrilled about a reduction in time spent doing laundry (as it continues to feel like a treadmill of tedium today, I can only imagine the hours our grandparents wasted on the task), you could be excused for asking, who really cares?

They are the closing the family circle and making wine together — as their Italian immigrant great - grandparents intended.

As one expert told The Times, «Google is the new grandparent, the new neighbor, the new nanny.»

That's especially true during the holidays, when it should come as no surprise that grandparents often want just one thing: to see their grandchildren's joyful faces on Christmas morning.

This is different for everyone, but if you are grandparents living in the same state as your family, the decision to move across the country for a tax break could shake out to mean a loss of being more available for quality time.

Like their grandparents, with whom they often are close, they have come of age in a time of war as the norm and a sluggish rebound from a financial crisis.

When parents and grandparents started using the platform, the media giant was barely recognizable as the mature form of its adolescent predecessor.

The surname is Swiss — his father, a dairy entrepreneur, was born in Switzerland, as were his maternal grandparents.

If the 529 account is owned by someone else (such as a grandparent), it doesn't count as an asset for federal financial aid purposes.

These included orphans from «grandparent» or earlier blocks are frequently referred to as «uncle» blocks because the gender neutral term «ommer» isn't widely known or understood.

I am an hasidic jew and i feel bad i am exposed to such hateful people like you, as a Jew u should be more tolerant and respect us, ur religious grandparents would cry hearing ur hateful comments against ur fellow Jews.

His great grandparents or his parents were just as ignorant as all of you here.

The evil things our fearful grandparents told our parents that rock and roll «devil's music» held are actually being put into music now, and we're too inured to care until it presents itself visually, as with Cyrus.

My maternal grandparents» sky - blue clapboard farmhouse never had air - conditioning, and yet it was my favorite place to spend part of every summer as a child.

We all had our favorite areas; such as pediatrics, the newborn nursery, the E.R. Personally, I loved spending time in geriatrics with the elderly, (they reminded me of my grandparents, to which I was alway's very closed to and I had not been able to see in a very long time, as they lived in another country and I missed them so much).

«I don't know if the reason for my anger is just my old fashioned Irish - American patriotism,» wrote the friend who sent us the link, «or the fact that I just spent a week with my father tripping and limping around with a bad leg he gave in the service of this nation, or because my mother is an immigrant and both my paternal grandparents were too, and as much as all of them loved Ireland they knew how much they owed this country and considered the precious value of their American citizenship only slightly behind that of their baptismal certificates.»

, grandparents who died without ever knowing where she was or if she had even survived, and the nights of loneliness and devastating grief she endured as a four - year - old, taken from the only life she knew and dropped into a whole new world.

Having spent my whole life listening to stories of German occupation I am full of warmth after reading this story - My grandparents and other relatives lived throught the war and some escaped the Nazi regime as well.

If we are to speak truly to our age, therefore, we can assume, not (1) the complete ignorance of Christian principles, such as existed in the decaying civilization of early Greece and Rome; (2) the thoroughgoing knowledge and acceptance of Christian principles, such as existed in the time of most of our grandparents; or (3) the vigorous antagonism to the gospel, such as now exists among those who accept either the Marxist or the Fascist interpretation of history; but (4) a vague and tenuous residuum of Christian piety, devoid of any intention of doing anything about it.

As we read and explore and study our history, white Christians in particular would do well to ask of our grandparents, great - grandparents, and great - great grandparents: What were they thinking?

Official statistics also reveal that in four out of five cases of pregnancies in girls under 14, the offender was a close relative such as a father, uncle or grandparent.

Thus the scripture writers speak of God anthropomorphically and God becomes a father with two bewildered sons in Jesus» parable or as God was for my grandparents, a lawyer and a doctor.

I was raised in their home with the Salvation Army as my «grandparent».

Economists and social scientists such as Gary Becker, Linda Waite, Steven Nock and Robert Michaels are uncovering once again the economic and health benefits of marriage and demonstrating what kinfolk such as grandparents, uncles and aunts contribute both to marriage and to the children born to marriages.

Obama's mother was an atheist and his grandparents were religious skeptics (Obama's family has challenged the description of his mother as an atheist.

As this is Mother's Day, let me say finally: Without mothers there would be no fathers... no sons or daughters... no sisters or brothers... no cousins... no aunts or uncles... no grandparents.

I am also intrigued by recurring symbols I have, such as a peacock and my grandparent's home, where we visited as children.

And yet, as others were quick to point out, no one doubts the love of men for men, or women for women, just as no one doubts that there may be abiding relations of love between brothers and sisters, or grandparents and grandchildren.

The grandparents of today who accepted this consent with relief became in some cases the «condoning generation» with regard to abortion in difficult cases with the result that many mothers today, even within our own community, carry the burden of a decision that was sold to them as a solution to their problem pregnancy.

As a Catholic, a parent and a grandparent, I am deeply offended by the friar's comments.

If we were to use the phrase «the American people» with meaning, it would refer to Thomas Jefferson and Benedict Arnold and my grandparents just named fully as much as to anyone now living.

As a child, my parents took me to a Baptist worship service (my paternal grandparents were Baptists), and I didn't know it was any different at all until I asked a question about a scripture I knew from the Book of Mormon.

Immigrant Jewish children in New York's garment district often were raised by grandparents or great - grandparents, as were Italian children in Chicago and San Francisco.

I come from a Welsh - speaking background and my grandparents were deeply involved with the chapel — as much of rural Wales was in those days.

Sometimes I need to be reminded that these things — loving parents, treasured children, Santa hats, school gyms, carols, joy, present grandparents and neighbours, wool toques — are all just as true as Aleppo, just as true as the news reports, just as true as the terrible things of this life.

To make the point more strongly, I know of at least four priests who have come from families who were not practising when they were brought for baptism as infants, but who through the influence of a school, or priests, teachers or grandparents were led to strong and deep faith and then to ordination.

However, i have approached it as fiction, and before that when i was young — it was fact, then i learned what a fact was... and started breaking down the bible — around age 7 - 9, confessed atheist at 10, explained my disbelief to my grandparents — who almost puked... and i made my step - mother cry when she found out... she is a ccd teacher

As pumpkins, witches and faux cobwebs have taken over much of North America for Halloween, Clare Slaney - Davis is preparing an October 31 feast that some would consider much spookier, with table settings for her grandparents, a great - aunt and other relatives who have passed away.

As white Christians have tried to move beyond the prejudice of their grandparents and second and third generation black British Christians feel less need for the safety of a culturally specific home church, the challenge is to find ways of reintroducing both sides to each other.

Hmmm... let me see... Richard Dawkins had a grandparent who used slavery as was common at the time.

In fact, the two black people on the property, who incidentally are serving as the help, are the Armitage grandparents.

As his wife was making her way over, Gordon said his wife got a phone call from their son warning her that he was stuck waiting for a train to pass near their home and he advised her to go a different route, not even knowing that she was on her way over to his grandparents» home.

do you think that what we see as moral or immoral is the same as our great grandparents views?

The baby prince smiled as he was shown off to family members including his great - grandparents, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, before the royals entered the Chapel Royal.

«This is an incredibly sharp contrast with the outlook for their parents and grandparents, as none of those 55 years old and older reported plans to use either of these services,» the study finds.

Growing up, we spent a couple of weeks every summer on the California's Central Coast, and as we'd pull off the Pacheco Pass on Highway 152, my grandparents would declare it was time to play «Name That Crop.»