Sentences with phrase «by white parents»

Transracial Adoption: It Will Change Your Family Forever (PDF - 40 KB) Infertility and Adoption Counseling Center (2008) Explores the adoption of children of color by White parents and offers strategies adoptive families can use to best meet the needs of those adopted transracially.

Now the school has an intensely active PTA, led by white parents from Northside.

I was adopted by white parents in 1966, and, subsequently, am over educated and a dreamer.

Others wonder where the children raised by white parents will find social acceptance as adults.

Studies also show that the emotional costs borne by children of color being raised by white parents - which often occurs with international adoptions - are less dire than critics believe.

Silvia Broome is a U.N. translator who was born in America, educated in Europe, but raised by her white parent farmers in a fictitious south African country called Matobo, ruled by Dr. Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), a liberator who became a tyrant when in power and in his old age is referred to by his followers as The Teacher.

Not exact matches

Several students and parents affected by school shootings including last week's massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, attended a listening session with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday.

A letter obtained by the Canadian Press from a lawyer representing the Great White North Franchise Association to Tim Hortons parent company Restaurant Brands Inc. said if RBI refuses to meet with franchisees by Friday to discuss «deficient IT practices» and «future IT protocols» they will take the matter to court.

Bob White and the auto workers captured the attention of many Canadians by breaking away from their American parent union in 1985 and then leading an inspired campaign against the Mulroney government's proposed free trade agreement with the United States.

The comment came during a White House listening session marked by poignant testimony from students and parents affected by school shootings.

I take care of foster kids too, and the last 4 kids where white kids that were abused by their meth smoking parents.

There was a great article in Sports illustrated a while back that spoke of how coaches were forced by parents of black and white children to play them at positions based on race.

I think the term refers to those parents who do everything so over-the-top that they create mind - boggling Pinterest pages that seem like they should be titled «Dressing For The First Day of Preschool For Under $ 800» or «101 Things I Had the Governess Do» or «How I was able to retain my white, minimalistic decor by burning all of my children's things and then finally giving them away.»

Where parents take their newly born children and place them in the arms of a metal statue that has been heated white hot because they think they will gain some benefit by sacrificing their children in the fire.

The nativity story was read aloud by my friend with carols sung at the appropriate places, and all went like clockwork until it came time for the arrival of the angels of the heavenly host as represented by the children of the congregation, who were robed in white and scattered throughout the pews with their parents.

Soon my backyard will be filled with nests of blue and white and brown and even turquoise eggs kept warm by devoted parents of different species.

You would want your college sports played the way they were at the turn of the 20th century — by the white guys whose parents were wealthy enough to send them to an elite college.

Hmmm... I think by «American parenting», they might mean American upper - middle - class - and - probably - white - and urban - as - well, parenting.

We also helped develop the Men's Coalition — a partnership launched in November 2007 by a group of agencies (Men's Health Forum, Respect, Fatherhood Institute, Men's Advice Line, Relate, the Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at Bradford University, NCH and the White Ribbon Campaign) to ensure public policies take full account of the specific needs and experiences of men and boys (eg across health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and violence).

A 2013 white paper by Denise Pope and Madeline Levine, both co-founders of Challenge Success, a research - based organization at Stanford University that develops holistic curriculum, conferences and other programs for parents, schools and students, suggests that isn't always the case.

Northwest Herald, February 20, 2008 Mama nature: Start saving the Earth at the moment of birth by Geneva White «For many parents, caring for their babies is an exercise in green living... And then there's the mother of all green parenting — using cloth diapers instead of those oh - so - convenient disposables.

Make Some Noise Another trick that parents swear by: Turn on white noise.

The study, which started in 1998 and has been funded by the federal government through 2009, is following 5,000 African - American, Latino and white children born in 21 cities, most to unmarried parents under the age of 25.

White noise has been used by many parents to pacify a fussy baby.

By TAMMY WHITE Before I had children of my own, I was a foster parent for five years.

While the article is timely and had wonderful information to share with parents and school boards, I feel people will get the wrong impression by the comparison chart if they do not realize that the fat - free milk in many cases is not the type of white milk served to the majority of students.

The white Dékor Plus has been voted Best Diaper Pail repeatedly by parents.

Something else that takes most parents by surprise is that baby girls often have a white vaginal discharge following birth, as well as one or two days of blood streaks.

If the world were so black and white, then every child would be well behaved and every parent wouldn't swing by mc donalds every week to feed their child.

Commenting on the proposals, Chris Pond, chief executive officer of the charity One Parent Families, said: «We hope that the government's forthcoming white paper on child support will introduce a far more generous change by enabling single parents on income support to keep all of any child maintenance they receive from the CSA or its successor.»

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, who joined the city school system this month, fanned the flames Friday by retweeting a news story on the meeting headlined: «Watch: Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.»

Convened by the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in partnership with CUNY's Asian American / Asian Research Institute and Hunter College, the event aims to raise awareness about harassment of Asian and Muslim Americans, encourage students, parents and advocates to report such incidents and discuss possible solutions, federal officials said.

A former councilwoman from Manhattan, Ms. Moskowitz could have been a natural choice for a hodgepodge of communities frustrated by Mr. de Blasio, including white voters in Manhattan who have soured on the mayor, business leaders who have long viewed Mr. de Blasio with hostility and a diverse set of charter - school parents across the city.

How such a dense planet formed is unclear, the researchers say, but it's probably the crystalline vestige of a white dwarf star whose atmosphere was stripped away by the parent pulsar.

And in another move announced last week, the government will conduct an inquiry into a long - discredited policy which, up until the 1960s, resulted in tens of thousands of Aboriginal children being taken from their parents and raised by white families.

Am I the only parent who goes into a white - hot rage every time you hear this song, Rude, by Magic?

The # 1 source of dioxins in the diets of Californian preschoolers, kids, parents, and grandparents appears to be dairy, dairy, dairy, dairy; followed by meat, then white potatoes, refined grains, mushrooms, poultry, fish.

After an intriguing prologue that sets up the real reason for the space race — something crashed on the dark side of the moon [but they couldn't use that as a title because of the Pink Floyd album]-- Transformers: Dark of the Moon quickly devolves into an action movie with giant robots, explosions, gunfire, and some rude language from Sam Witwicky's [Shia LaBeouf] parents [played by the ever delightful Julie White and Kevin Dunn].

Between the bombast and the excess, what I enjoy most is Bay's skittish, eager - to - please - abandoned - puppy sense of humor, exemplified best by the Transformers trilogy's scenes with Kevin Dunn and Julie White as Sam Witwicky's (Shia LaBeouf) TMI - prone parents.

There's a vast shared history in his pages of prickly dialogue, enhanced by the peerless ensemble he's hired to deliver it, from Hoffman — face submerged in snow - white hair, nailing the distracted irritation of a slowly fading parent — to Marvel, who lends Jean a droll, wallflower wit, not far from a grown - up, live - action Daria.

The girl, Sandra (Sophie Okonedo), winds up forced out of white society as her shopkeeper parents struggle to get by.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

An extensive selection of work from across the world is presented including the World Premieres of William English's HEATED GLOVES and THE HOST, in which director Miranda Pennell delves deeper into her past and her late parents» involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP); Ben Rivers» THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS, the feature element of Ben's current Artangel installation at BBC White City; EVENT FOR A STAGE by Tacita Dean, a filmed presentation of her live theatrical happening in collaboration with actor Stephen Dillane at the 2014 Sydney Biennial; the European Premiere of Omer Fast's REMAINDER, a London - set thriller adapted from Tom McCarthy's acclaimed novel of the same name; the European Premiere of INVENTION which highlights the possibilities of camera movement and the development of artistic apparatus and Kevin Jerome Everson's PARK LANES, set in an American bowling alley over the course of a day.

Reynolds and Enos are achingly raw as parents coping with unspeakable loss in profoundly different ways, and Egoyan underlines their grief by shooting as much white - on - white as he possibly can.

In spite of its «modern» aspects (extended families, separated and remarried parents, step - fathers and half - siblings, the father's progressive politics, the mother's struggles), it's a time capsule of an America that is no more: white suburbs, established rites of passage, unquestioned gender and ethnic identities, a national territory unchallenged by the rest of the world, no real vanishing point.

White Wolf isn't just a random nickname, but the name of a longstanding character in the Black Panther comic books: Hunter, orphaned as an infant when both his parents died in a plane crash near Wakanda and, despite being a white foreigner, was adopted and raised by T'Challa's father, T'CWhite Wolf isn't just a random nickname, but the name of a longstanding character in the Black Panther comic books: Hunter, orphaned as an infant when both his parents died in a plane crash near Wakanda and, despite being a white foreigner, was adopted and raised by T'Challa's father, T'Cwhite foreigner, was adopted and raised by T'Challa's father, T'Chaka.

Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) takes her family - owned newspaper, the Washington Post, in a risky new direction in «The Post»; Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) meets his white girlfriend's parents only to discover they're a vicious pack of loons in Jordan Peele's «Get Out»; and little Miguel (voiced by young Anthony Gonzalez) desperately tries to pursue music against his abuela's wishes in Pixar's «Coco.»

As a result of the rise of the White Gorilla cult, extremists targeted the entire Jabari tribe, and Chanté's parents were forced to flee Wakanda for the US — where they were murdered by extremists when Chanté was an infant.

Overall, though, the best scenes take place between Amy parents and Jeremy's therapist mom (Julie White), the latter showing her progressive point of view by accepting that her son is gay (he isn't), and surprised when she returns home early to find both her son and Amy naked at the poolside.

Rose's parents, Dean and Missy — played by Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener, respectively — are the kind of affluent liberal white people who can't be racist because they consider their black servants to be «like family».