Sentences with phrase «become less family»

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Buying something for friends, family, or loved ones, has become part of the holiday seasons, but that doesn't mean deals and discounts become less important; More importantly, can Bitcoin play any major role in the «bargain» holiday shopping this year?

And in his book, Children of the Great Depression, Glen Elder wrote that adolescents who experienced hardship in the 1930s became especially adaptable, family - oriented adults; perhaps, as a result of this recession, today's adolescents will be pampered less and counted on for more, and will grow into adults who feel less entitled than recent generations.

Do the conservative Protestants who were influenced by religion choose to earn less by becoming pastors or teachers at Christian schools or by taking jobs that allow them to spend more time with their family?

Thanks to the breaking of social bonds in our families and communities, and the lack of self - control that a culture of indulgence promotes, we will continue to become more bureaucratic and inefficient in our governance, while at the same time creating the conditions whereby citizens become less capable of leading their own lives.

Parents of large families in which older children have already moved on to adult life report a «squash and a squeeze» effect where each child's birth makes the house a little less bearable until breaking point is almost reached... then older children spend the day at school, then they're off to university and adult life, and slowly the house becomes almost unbearably large.

Democracy will only arrive in the Middle East when families and tribes become much less important than they now are.

Another theory is that, as people became less religious, they would abandon the natural family and have fewer children.

It is addictive, and we become less interested in the real world, looking after ourselves, our families.

Your «100 %» argument fails to consider that some percentage, less than 100 %, of priests were still boys at the age they (or their family) decided they were to become priests.

This is a theoretical view of modem societies that attempts to explain why families become weaker and less important in advanced industrial societies.

Far more serious than any of the startling events of the decade was the massive erosion of the legitimacy of American institutions — business, government, education, the churches, the family — that set in, particularly among young people, and that continues, if public opinion polls are to be believed, in the 1970s even when overt protest has become less frequent.

k) Occasions fall into sequences, more or less definite strands of becoming, which Whitehead calls societies, and might have called families or tribes.

Since becoming a new mom can sometimes mean a little less time and less energy to get dinner on the table every night, I am sharing an easy dinner recipe for Italian Style Stir Fry that I find myself throwing together for my family quite often.

In less than a decade it had gone from a Tasmanian family run business to the poster child for Australian success in China as it took advantage of surging demand for foreign infant formula which became known as «white gold».

More recently though, Salma and her family have found themselves becoming less and less interested in meat once again.

The mine closed, and he later became an assistant manager of a civic hockey rink that appeared, wonder of wonders, less than half a mile from the farm where the family lived.

Getting an active child to sit down for a meal of any kind, much less a well - balanced, made - from - scratch meal with the entire family, as he rushes off to or home from school, sports practices or games, or other activities that cram virtually every nook and cranny of a child's day, has become virtually impossible for many families, especially those headed by single parents.

We then make the big leap — a child, fatherhood and family, with our mate turning into a mom — and run into another stereotype: the notion that fatherhood is emasculating, that becoming a father, with all that diaper changing, baby talk, nurturing, etc. somehow make us less of a man.

Marriage naturally gets shuffled to the end of the list, becoming less the starting point of family life than the full stop at the end of it — invariably parked until someone has the time and the energy to think about it.

I'm becoming more resentful of my job because it takes me away from the things I love more: family (keeps me from my son, which then makes less time for my hubby), making things, taking care of myself, pampering myself.

Now you know what you need to do to become a successful meal planner and can try my popular clean eating meal plan for less than $ 70 / week for a family of 4!

Your life changes and there is obviously less personal time, but the amazing thing is that the «family time» becomes your favorite time.

But C - sections became safer and women started having smaller families so the risk / benefit ratio of c - section compared to forceps changed and now forceps are done much less often.

We understand that every decision people make when starting or adding to their family is emotional, but once they have worked through any concerns they may have and asked all their questions, deciding on egg donation can become a less complicated decision.

While the old «ideal» involved couples marrying young, then starting a family, and staying married till «death do they part,» the family has become more complex, and less «traditional.»

«The most interesting finding,» Wolfinger says, is that «some of the negative consequences of growing up in a divorced family, including stigmatization, are less severe because divorce has become more common.»

However, even dual - income families with egalitarian beliefs become less stable if the wife works more than 45 hours a week outside the home.

If you need to cancel your registration less than 30 days from the start of the Family Equality Council event, your payment is nonrefundable and will become part of the event's scholarship fund.

Families that eat together are less likely to have children who become obese because they are eating regular, home - cooked meals.

Christine and Asha became internet friends in 2006, finally met in real life as roomies at a conference in New York (it's not as weird as it sounds) in 2009, and co-authored the book Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More By Doing Less in 2013.

«I think it's always a good campaign ploy to show your big happy family, but I think it's become much less relevant,» she said.

Donald Trump focused his attacks on the Affordable Care Act, dubbed Obamacare, which he believes is becoming increasingly unpopular with low income families he needs to vote for him, amid reports of higher premiums and less choice.

With Cuomo's signature, New York will become the first state in the country to fund free tuition for students at community colleges or four - year public institutions, as long as their families make less than $ 125,000 a year.

It understands that when people see their job become more insecure, when they see their family less and when they feel they no longer know their neighbours, this doesn't always feel like progress.

Former Minister, David Lammy MP is an admirer, and he wrote about Blue Labour for Labour Uncut: «It understands that when people see their job become more insecure, when they see their family less and when they feel they no longer know their neighbours, this doesn't always feel like progress.

Haeffner said city dwellers were supplied with 250 liters per person per day, while the rural families had to rely on twice - weekly deliveries that only became less reliable as the drought dragged on.

It has been noted that women tend to find physician - scientist careers less attractive than men do for a number of reasons: They (1) are concerned that it will be impossible to combine a successful medical research career with childbearing and family life; (2) feel that they have to be better than their male counterparts to be considered equal; (3) receive little encouragement to become physician - scientists; and (4) lack compelling role models.

Neighborhoods are becoming less diverse and more segregated by income — but only among families with children, a new study has found.

With work and family obligations, binge drinking may become less frequent.

Also, family disapproval is becoming much less common now.

As the young subjects are encouraged to spend less time on their computers and more time in the real world, they discuss the many reasons they feel drawn to online communities, and how they've become increasingly isolated from their friends and families.

Around the fourth or fifth episode of Schitt's Creek, the family's behavior starts to become a smidge less predictable: David decides to sell his pricey wardrobe; Alexis finds herself attracted to a bearded environmentalist; Johnny and Moira display genuine affection for each other.

«Landline» has some of that, too, to be sure: In some scenes, such as the secret - spilling encounter between the sisters in the family country house on Long Island, the glibness becomes less a part of the characters» armor and more a matter of avoiding a scene's deeper possibilities.

You will see most of them coming — subtlety isn't the game's strong point — but just because you expect something bad to happen to anybody who says they are «getting out of the game and becoming a family man» doesn't make it any less devastating when it happens.

All in all, the ending of Deadpool 2 does provide a resolution: Cable's family is safe; Russell finds the light; Wade is living up to Vanessa's last request, to be a true hero; Colossus has become less uptight; Domino has a new family; and Dopinder finally gets to kill someone, by running over the headmaster with his taxi.

A family crisis forces Ben to bring his children out of the woods and into a world where they are not quite as prepared for what they find as Ben would have hoped, and forces a crisis of conscience where adherence to a Platonic ideal becomes less a lofty goal than tunnel vision with unintended consequences.

Quickly though, the film becomes less about him, and more about her, her relationship to herself, her sexuality, her family, and to the filmmaking process itself.

It's a smarter, less - angry version of Transamerica while featuring the same number of depressed gay people and Harold & Maude-esque teenage boys; it's got the Wes Anderson stamp of approval for its coterie of sage oddballs, deadpan surrogates, and family decompositions; it has a stellar cast doing extremely predictable work at a stellar level; and it comes with the Sundance stamp of approval predestined for it because Little Miss Sunshine is a summary of every independent film since «dysfunction» became a hot - key button on critics» keyboards.

In such scenes, Making Plans for Lena becomes a more resonant, less self - conscious view of family dynamics than Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale.

Ali is part of the rave scene, with all the bad fashion and increasingly hard drugs that came with it, and becoming less comprehensible to the rest of her family by the day.