Sentences with phrase «child advocates who»

A proposed law that would require carmakers to build alarms for back seats is being pushed by child advocates who say it will prevent kids from dying in hot cars.

Duffy spoke to a crowd of about 1,400 charter school parents, children advocates who were bused up to Albany by the New York City Charter School Center for its tenth annual charter advocacy day at the Capitol.

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C - level executives must advocate internally for benefits such as generous parental leave, considerations for same - sex couples who can not have biological children and student - loan repayment programs.

Cendy is one of millions of immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children — a group known as «DREAMers» by advocates of the Dream Act, a federal bill first introduced in the Senate in 2001 to allow them a pathway to permanent residency.

It was founded by two Court Appointed Special Advocates who realized that there were no emergency care facilities for children in Harlingen and the larger Rio Grande Valley.

These are good women, one who is a child welfare advocate, another who works with poor minority youth.

Jolie is an enigma wrapped inside of a riddle: an outspoken advocate for United Nations and children's causes who nonetheless maintains a near - impenetrable wall of privacy around her personal life with partner Brad Pitt.

• Disrupting the accustomed course of his many good ideas, my friend William F. Buckley has deep within him this libertarian child who occasionally gets out to advocate the legalization of drugs.

The final straw was when I was condoned by them for being an advocate for other families who have a child with a facial difference.

In the past, she has worked with Republicans on legislation that reformed the foster care system and encouraged more adoptions, issues I know matter to many pro-life evangelicals who advocate on behalf of adoption and open their homes to children.

Although it proved a harrowing experience - she fled with her family, she says, once the cult began advocating child - adult sexual relations - as the setting at first «was really idyllic,» remembers the actress, 38, who rose to fame on TV's Charmed and now stars in Conan the Barbarian 3D.

In her book How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott - Haims, a dean at Stanford University, tells horror stories about parents who speak for, plan for, and advocate for their college - aged children, afraid to let go lest their precious charges....

@Tom Tom - The poster who used the phrase «the child of their dreams» was not among those who were advocating for adoption.

Just like the young women and men who fall victim to trafficking, unborn and unwanted children need others to advocate for their value.

Pro-life advocates see themselves as acting on behalf of unborn children, who can not protect themselves.

People who have read this book have: killed millions of people needless in the Crusades, tortured and killed hundreds of thousands in the Inquisition, conducted countless «witch» burnings in Europe and America, have advocated for beating children (Proverbs 13:24), have advocated for the subjugation of women (far too much to cite)...

If you claim there is a magic man in the sky that supernaturally surveils the earth, who asks parents to kill their children, who advocates for slavery, genocide and vengeance, the burden is on you.

DREAMers, undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children, and their allies had been protesting and advocating for a bill to protect them before the government shut down pending a spending bill.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

We need to recognize the signs of abuse and to be willing, as concerned Christians and parents, to become advocates for children who are hurting.

For Megyn Kelly to argue that either Jesus, as embraced by Christians as the Son of God, or Santa, as the infinitely generous being who lives at the North Pole and delivers presents to every well - behaved child on the planet on Christmas Eve (What other possible understanding could she be advocating?)

As the mother of a gay child, I am appalled that this person who claims to follow Jesus would advocate beating a child.

I would hope that any leader, no matter how minor, who advocated child abuse for any reason would be subject to public scrutiny and public castigation - even if that person were an atheist leader telling parents to hit their kids if those kids considered converting to a religion.

Not only has he been a vocal critic of (now - former) Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore — who just lost the election to Democrat Doug Jones following numerous allegations that he sexually pursued (and even molested) teen girls — Jimmy Kimmel has also been an advocate of healthcare laws he believes best support the families of young children.

Essentially they are the ones who are not strong enough to be advocates for themselves: prisoners, very old and very poor people, household workers, most people who live in Third World countries, retarded children and adults, schoolchildren, immigrants, farm workers, unemployed persons, the institutionalized mentally ill, sometimes women, sometimes gays.

For social justice advocates who like to drink — a bottle of Fledgling wine supports literacy initiatives for children.

The other thing is, I don't think we should ever back away from advocating for the protection of children and the serving of survivors simply because of criticism we may receive from those who disagree with us on this issue or the few who may advocate in a manner that we find unproductive or disagreeable.

This raises a delicate issue for pro-family advocates, who have taken on as a solemn responsibility trends in abortion, divorce, child abuse, and drug use.

This may seem like an unremarkable turn of events, but according to Grant Castleberry of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (flagship organization for the complementarianism movement, which advocates hierarchal gender roles in the home, church, and society), it represents a severe «cultural capitulation» which, «instead of helping guide children towards embracing who they actually are, blurs reality,» «confuses them,» and «drags them through the dark labyrinths» of their parents» gender - based delusions.

People who are being referred to as CIO advocates are loving caring parents who have usually read lots of books and tried a myriad of things before allowing a child to cry.

There are times when a parents need to advocate for children who are having difficulty in adapting to different settings.

Suzanne at The Joyful Chaos who co-sleeps, but also says she's «not actually an advocate for co-sleeping,» drives the point home that you have to do what works best for your family in her post The Cosleeping Edition of my Attachment Parenting Freako - ness and sometimes that may very well differ from child to child.

Gordon is recognized internationally as an award - winning social entrepreneur, educator, author, child advocate and parenting expert who has created programs informed by the power of empathy.

Your child needs an advocate who will supply them with the healthy tools to deal with this type of aggressive behavior.

Now that I think about it, I have only found one peds doc who was an expert on breastfeeding and I think that was only b / c she was, herself, a waterbirth and breastfeeding advocate, having had waterbirths and nursed each of her children past the age of one (not an easy task when you're an Army doctor and deployable).

«For really tiny babies, this is a truly a matter of life and death,» said Summer Cassidy, a lactation educator who began the donor milk program at Advocate, which recently changed its name to Advocate Children's Hospital of Park Ridge.

Many think it's due to the changing views of prominent experts and pediatricians — who now advocate a gentler, more «child - centered» approach to potty training — as well as the invention of disposable diapers.

This move has been decried by many health advocates, including the American Heart Association, which said in a press release, «Children who eat high levels of sodium are about 35 percent more likely to have elevated blood pressure, which can ultimately lead to heart disease or stroke.

When advocates who share a common interest in fighting child obesity are at each other's throats over whether chocolate milk is a tasty way for kids to get important nutrition, or the Drink of Satan, the whole school food reform movement suffers, and that hurts kids.

By encouraging those who still advocate corporal punishment to see the facts behind reasons parents today think corporal punishment works and breaking down those reasons to see why those reasons don't stand up to facts and examination, we can protect the most vulnerable members of society: children, who should be taught how to behave correctly on their own and develop the skills to regulate their own behavior so that they don't need to be constantly disciplined and who should not be physically hurt so that they obey at that particular moment, without learning how to regulate themselves in the future.

Motion for debate: «In order for RCPCH as a professional body to avoid institutional conflicts of interest and thus maintain its reputation as an unbiased, independent educator and advocate for child health, the College should decline any commercial transactions or any other kind of funding or support from all companies that market products within the scope of the WHO Code on the marketing of breast milk substitutes

Once you're a mom, you're that child's advocate and um, especially of course early on and in those early years when they can't verbalize or always verbalize what they need that listen to your child, get in tune with them so you can be their advocate and also realize that um, your child may have a different temperament than you do and it doesn't make them wrong and it doesn't make you wrong but get to know them and enjoy that child and the blessing of who they were created to be.

«Sometimes you struggle to find the words, but it does feel like parents are comforted by your presence,» said Summer Kelly, a nurse and lactation educator who started the donor milk program at Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge.

«Finding adoptive families for the children in foster care; supporting the families who come forward and educating and advocating for excellence in child welfare.»

Aside from constant scrutiny from breastfeeding advocates, many parents who formula feed their children are constantly judged for their decision.

For example, parents who advocate and practice attachment parenting may breastfeed their children until they are toddlers, may reject the idea of parental «nights out» in favor of staying with the baby around the clock and carrying the baby in a sling rather than pushing them in a stroller.

And even advocates of «cry - it - out» strategies of sleep training warn that such approaches are inappropriate for young babies and children who are especially fearful or anxious (France and Blampied 1999; Owens et al 1999).

«I am absolutely an advocate of parents prioritizing their children's well - being when there is a divorce proceeding,» says Katherine Woodward Thomas, creator of the «conscious uncoupling» concept and a divorced mom who lives just a few floors up from her ex.

Led by the Milk Processor Education Program and the National Dairy Council, the program aims to «keep chocolate milk on the menu in schools nationwide», in light of «lunch advocates [who] are calling [to remove chocolate milk from the lunch line, a decision that could] cause more harm than good when it comes to children's health.»

As for Diaz - Tello, who has graduated from law school since the birth of her child, she's now working in her own legal practice and with groups like the National Advocates for Pregnant Women to educate moms about what they're going into when they enter the delivery room.