Sentences with phrase «child about a decade»

I have a friend who lost her only child about a decade ago.

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On average, renters earn about half as much as homeowners, and the percentage of families with children that rent rather than buy has increased sharply in the past decade, the study said.

With the birth of my first child recently I began thinking about planting a dividend tree for him at birth so that he may sit in its shade in a couple decades.

The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family breakup.

I can't help but wonder if all the devout religioners screaming that Hoffman doesn't merit a church funeral were quite so adamant about the Church's protection of all the child molesters and all their decades of masquerading in clerical costumes?

(CNN)- Thousands and thousands of children suffered from sexual abuse in the Dutch Roman Catholic Church over more than six decades, and about 800 «possible perpetrators» have been identified, an independent Commission of Inquiry said Friday.

The former pastor of that church, a friend for decades, preached a fiery sermon about how taking away financial support from a missionary was tantamount to taking food from their children's mouths.

As someone who has been educating sports parents about head trauma in sports for the past seventeen years, and about the very real risk posed by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) for the last decade, it is not surprising that I receive emails from parents all the time expressing deep concern about stories in the media that have led them - wrongly - to fear that playing contact or collision sports, or suffering a sports - related concussion, especially one slow to heal, makes it inevitable that their child will develop CTE and is at greatly increased risk of committing suicide.

For a child, it isn't necessarily a happy thing, or so Melissa Cistaro told me as we chatted about her new memoir, Pieces of My Mother, which details her decades - long search to understand why her mother abandoned her and her two brothers when they were all under the age of 5.

Because decades of research show that our beliefs — about the nature of children and about how children best grow and develop — inform our daily practices.

In the last two decades, child mortality has decreased by about 40 %, but still almost 7 million children under five die each year, mainly from preventable diseases.

Officially, Engh founded the organization in 1981, but it was born from decades of witnessing parents and volunteer coaches physically and emotionally abusing children, validating their worth based on their child's performance and trampling the true purpose of what youth sports are really about: providing positive and safe environments for learning valuable life lessons and developing a passion for life - long physical activity.

As a therapist who has taught on the national level for over a decade to families and childcare organizations like Parents As Teachers, First Steps, Children's Hope International, and more about the value of attachment, I knew that truly gentle sleep support for parents was hard to come by and too often attached to a big price tag (from $ 50 to sometimes $ 350 for private coaching, site memberships, books / videos, etc).

When it came to deciding how many kids to have, the magic number was three: We both declared our intention to have three children spaced 18 to 36 months apart and that was that for about a decade.

I've been writing about how USA child and adult wellbeing have been deteriorating for some decades.

In my first book, Whatever it Takes, I wrote a lot about Baby College, a nine - week parenting program that the Harlem Children's Zone has been running for more than a decade.

I have been that parent, who is otherwise able to empathize with my child's strong emotions but who second - guessed herself after a decade of Attachment Parenting, because of an old lady's furrowed brow when my kid — with an especially high whine — complained about the length of the grocery trip.

The Circle of Security ® Parenting ™ program is based on decades of research about how secure parent - child relationships can be supported and strengthened.

While some studies have looked at outcomes much later in life, this new study is the first to assess how breastfeeding affects markers of heart health in younger and middle - aged women, about a decade after having children.

He then recalled his first interaction with Pichardo, about a decade ago on a call dealing with a distressed woman with three children in an apartment building.

Decades later, in 1996, Greenberg said he saw news reports about a man named Louis Van Wie, who was arrested for abusing two children in the Troy - Cohoes area and who Greenberg said police suspected had abused as many as 150 others over dDecades later, in 1996, Greenberg said he saw news reports about a man named Louis Van Wie, who was arrested for abusing two children in the Troy - Cohoes area and who Greenberg said police suspected had abused as many as 150 others over decadesdecades.

Paladino has openly admitted to fathering a child out of wedlock during an affair that took place about a decade ago.

He also talks about his more - than - decade - long fight for the Child Victims Act to protect children by forcing predators into the open.

As many know, the former president has been married to Lordina Mahama for about two decades and the couple have 5 children.

«I am worried - and every parent should be worried - about what will happen to our children in the coming decades.

«It's hard for us to get the true message out about the children most impacted by the lack of urgency from the governor and others,» Ansari said, noting that Nixon has lent AQE her voice for well over a decade and that her newfound prominence was also bleeding through.

Gulluscio, 60, said he has been concerned about transportation issues in the area ever since he first delved into civics more than two decades ago, successfully advocating to have many of Howard Beach's two - way residential roads changed to one - way in order to protect children.

About a decade ago, three different groups found that a disproportionate number of affected children, particularly with Beckwith - Wiedemann and Angelman syndromes, had been conceived through IVF.

Over the decade of follow - up for the study, parents completed questionnaires about their child's behavior.

At first glance, it appears that we have almost won this particular health battle, with the proportion of the world's children receiving routine vaccinations climbing steadily from 73 per cent a decade ago to about 83 per cent today.

Families given such information about their children then may have to wait decades before they can do anything about it or decide when, if ever, to start considering treatment for a disorder that may not ever develop.

Men who were bullied as children, on the other hand, tended to have more financial difficulties, felt more unfairly treated by others, and were less optimistic about their future two decades later.

The lack of information about the long - term safety of drugs prescribed for children is a special worry, both for drugs that may be used for decades for chronic conditions and for drugs for which short - term use may be found to harm children's growth and development months or years later.

People who claim we can stop worrying about global warming on the basis of a cooler year or a cooler decade — or just on questionable predictions of cooling — are as naive as a child mistaking a falling tide, or a spring low tide, for a real long - term fall in sea level.

Fertility has been below the replacement level of 2.1 children per couple for over two decades, and is now at about 1.5.

In the United States, the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders has increased about tenfold over the past two decades, and a 2003 report by the Centers for Disease Control suggests that as many as one in every 166 children is now on the autism spectrum, while another one in six suffers from a neurodevelopmental delay.

It is about making a healthier future for my children so they have decades and decades of health after college and so I get to live long enough to meet and enjoy my grandchildren.

He'll also share a bit about his three decades of experience as a pediatrician, and how he developed his unique and holistic approach to caring for and raising children.

So after years dreaming about it, and over a decade professionally caring for children, I had a...

It's funny how nutritionists always reference thermodynamics, drawn to as children to amusement parks, but physicists who spend decades studying thermodynamics never, never, never talk about calories.

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When thinking about the 50's you have to remember that the 50's (as any decade) varied depending on where you lived and how you were raised - and this movie comes pretty close to what real life was like for these people - they were literally trapped inside a nightmare which they (and their contemporaries) had created - it's no wonder that a few years later their children would be burning their bras and protesting wars.

Here's what's new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video - on - demand, and other streaming services... Wonderstruck (2017, PG), a lovely and touching film from Todd Haynes about two deaf children separated by decades but connected by fate (and New York's Museum of Natural History), got lost -LSB-...]

Paul King, the writer and director of the new British family film «Paddington,» recalled the dread that came over people's faces when he mentioned he was doing a movie about the adorable young bear that has enchanted children for nearly six decades.

While the dominating theme of cinematic comedy of the last decade has been of arrested development, of the perpetual man - child, this feels refreshing because it's about the reverse: kids who desperately want to grow up before they're quite ready to, and amidst the belly - laughs, there's a yearning, melancholy tone that imbues meaning without drifting into sentimentality (it's about five times more effective than the similar - on - the - surface «Mud,» for one).

The movie is about a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law - breaking, alcohol - abusing father over the course of a decade.

If his latest drama, based on the YA book by Hugo's Brian Selznick about two deaf children having adventures in separate decades, feels a little tame for him, know that the movie's compassion is voluminous.

The police chief in Fargo and the anti-police campaigner in Three Billboards — McDormand's two defining movie roles, two decades apart — are at very different stages of their lives: Marge is about to give birth, Mildred is grieving her teenage child.

Landline — Director Gillian Robespierre and star Jenny Slate, who's Obvious Child is one of the better Hollywood romantic comedies of this decade, reunite for this film about two sisters who discover their father is having an affair.

Data - driven instruction began its spread across the country about a decade ago, in the footsteps of the No Child Left Behind requirement that schools administer yearly achievement tests.