Sentences with phrase «child deaths each year»

The lack of clean water causes millions of needless child deaths each year.

A lack of exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life contributes to over a million avoidable child deaths each year.

Not exact matches

«Firearm - related deaths are the third leading cause of death overall among U.S. children aged 1 to 17 years, surpassing the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and / or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes,» wrote the CDC in its report.

There were 16 additional pediatric deaths reported in the weekly report, bringing the total number of child flu deaths this year up to 53.

The family suffered a major loss this year with the death of their matriarch, Marilyn Thomson, who had been a grounding figure for her three children and, in many ways, inspired their ambition.

«I was raised up as a poor child, when I was four years old my older brother and sister starved to death.

In case of their death, they want to make sure that their children are covered up through their kids» college years or until the family home is paid off.

In the cost - effectiveness analysis (GiveWell estimate of Living Goods cost effectiveness (November 2014)-RRB-, in all Sheets except for «U5MR (Jake's assumptions),» we use 5q0, or the probability of a child dying before his or her 5th birthday expressed in deaths per 1,000 live births assuming constant mortality rates throughout childhood, instead of the under - 5 mortality rate (under 5 deaths per person per year), because the original report on the RCT we received from Living Goods reported outcomes in terms of 5q0.

But that's nothing compared to the millions of children in Africa and Asia I starve to death each year, flies crawling on their faces, because they are too weak to swat them away.

At the moment of her death, I whispered in her ear to reach out and take her mother's (who had passed on years earlier) hand, and that I would take good care of the children, and that I loved her very much.

About 10 million starve to death each year, and that's children alone.

A Church of England inquiry into child abuse allegations against one of its most respected bishops almost 60 years after his death has been criticised as deficient by an independent review.

It is argued then, that the crushing, heart - wrenching pain of watching a child die, and the sense of deep loss that lingers afterwards for days, months, and even years in the hearts of parents, is the pain that God experiences for an eternity over the death of His Son.

that said over the years many copts have willingly left their homes taking their children with them to the rulers and announcing their christian faith and taking it to death for Christ's sake.

That has never stopped parents from exercising their right to choice, and children are still murdered every year in the secrecy of the family home, or mysteriously found drowned in a car, or beaten to death a dumped in the woods with the parents claiming kidnapping.

«9 In 1876 Melville, in describing the happy domestic scene of a mother and child, remarked, «Under such scenes abysses be — / Dark quarries where few care to pry.10 Perhaps he remembered that day not ten years before when his own eldest son, 18 years old, shot himself to death in his room at home.

I can't tell you why 5 year olds die of cancer but then again I know very few children that die of cancer but I know tons of people that smoked themselves to death.

And Exodus 21: 20 clearly gives notes on what should happen when a slave is beaten to the point of death or near death, not to mention the other rules of who should be set free, what to do with the slaves» children, how many years to keep a slave... It doesn't sound very different at all from our modern view of slavery.

We were about to carry out the headboard of the old mahogany bedstead when John suddenly stopped, and, with a few carefully chosen words, spoke about the death of his infant child many years ago.

My husband and I have four additional children — all boys, one born three years after Ruth's death.

For a peasant woman's child in occupied territory in an out - of - the - way corner of the Roman Empire to have become the man he did, attracting what looked like flash - in - the - pan attention during his brief years of ministry, unknown to most of his contemporaries and viewed as an upstart, a wonder - worker, or a fanatic by most of those who knew about him, dying a felon's death deserted by most of his close and trusted friends with the incredible rumor then circulated that he had risen again — what chance had he of any lasting fame?

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

These included — how to deepen a marriage relationship neglected during frantic child - rearing, getting - ahead years; maintaining self - esteem in the midst of increasing evidence of aging; coping with stresses of «adolescing children»; dependency and death of parents; menopause; the emptying nest; wives» need to develop new satisfactions as children leave.

Nine - year - old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested Friday morning... An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995.

But there was mourning aplenty anyway, for just before his death Herod had slain all the male children of Bethlehem two years old and younger in an effort to kill the little Messiah whose identity the Wise Men had withheld from him.

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

According to Davison Budhoo, an economist who had worked with both the World Bank and the IMP before he quit the latter in protest against its policies, on the basis of the figures released by UNICEF, it is estimated that those policies led directly to the death of 70 million children under 5 years in the Third World between the years 1982 - 1990 and indirectly to the destitution and impoverishment of several hundred millions more 8.

As I've spent the past few years struggling with doubt and grasping for faith, I've found that being ready with an answer does not do justice to the seriousness of questions like, why does God allow innocent children to starve to death?

A Church of England inquiry into child abuse allegations against one of its most respected bishops almost 60 years after his death has been criticised as deficient...

If you are incabable of seeing the inherent danger in any theocratic dogma I urge you to go back to this article and think about that poor 7 - year old girl, a child so indoctrinated that she is convinced the world will end and has been immersed in the ideas of death, destruction and suffering.

The London - born toddler's mother, 26 - year - old Sindyann Regis, was jailed for 40 months for allowing the death of a child but had her sentence reduced to 28 months on appeal.

According to Matthew 2:1, Jesus was born «in the days of king Herod», and Herod's order for the killing of children at Bethlehem who were two years old or less (2:16) suggests that Matthew regards the birth as having taken place at least two years before Herod's death (4 BC.).

It is a disease of poverty and poor diet, responsible for 1.9 to 2.8 million preventable deaths annually, mostly of children under 5 years old and women.

Young children with vitamin A deficiency also have impaired immune systems, a condition which increases the risk of death from certain common childhood infections and claims the lives of 670,000 children each year who live in less developed countries.

«Since a large proportion of vitamin A — deficient children and their mothers reside in rice - consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year,» said Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

So, based on my nine + + + years of (hopefully) inspiring, motivating, and helping families travel with babies, toddlers, and young children, and not wanting to seem like an apologist for genuinely horrific behaviour on planes (hello, death - stare Grandma with the plane - floor - peeing toddler), I feel the need to reiterate my tips for flying with babies and toddlers in context with recent headlines.

we already faced and went through what many married couples go through being married for 40 to 50 years such as death of a parent, death of many family members from different things (most deaths they were 20 and 40 yrs old), gun voilence due to an adult not locking the gun away, the victims were 12 years old, a house fire that destroyed just about everything, car accident which resulted in surgery with 2 years unable to work, inlaws, rasing children, ect...)

According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, drowning is the second - leading cause of accidental death in children - over 1,000 deaths per year and many more trips to the hospital.

However, when it comes to child protection, routine engagement with fathers and father - figures has seemed a distant ideal: safeguarding policy has repeatedly failed to identify this as an issue despite the fact that Serious Case Reviews over a twenty year period (most recently the Ofsted Serious Case Review summary of 46 cases, as well as both of the Baby Peter Serious Case Reviews) have found failure by practitioners to engage with the men in children's lives to be a major factor in child abuse and deaths.

For the parents, a child's senior year requires them to encounter the death of the phase of life when they were most important, most necessary.

In fact, four years later, the authors published follow - up results to the study, concluding, «planned cesarean delivery is not associated with a reduction in risk of death or neuro - developmental delay in children at 2 years of age.»

SIDS is the leading cause of death in children between the ages of one month and one year.

Drowning is still the second leading cause of death in children from 1 to 19 years of age, although death rates from drowning fell between 1985 and 2006, according the the AAP's News Room Highlights.

Drowning is the leading cause of injury - related death among children between 1 and 4 years old and it's the third leading cause of death among children in the United States.

There are enough tragic bathing - related drowning deaths every year that you should be very concerned with keeping your child safe.

UNICEF's From the First Hour of Life report points out that «If appropriate complementary feeding practices were scaled up to nearly universal levels, approximately 100,000 deaths in children under five could be averted each year.»

Infants and children under 2 years old are at risk for death when they sleep in the car.

A report from the World Health Organisation on the progress in implementing the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes suggests «breastfeeding has the potential to prevent about 800 000 deaths among children under five each year.»

report points out that «If appropriate complementary feeding practices were scaled up to nearly universal levels, approximately 100,000 deaths in children under five could be averted each year.»

The Lullaby Trust «s Judith Howard has been advising and helping parents who have lost children to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) for several years and has said: «Ninety per cent of sudden infant deaths happen in the first six months and we're now finding that when you get a death in the first month of life, it's nearly always because the baby has been co-sleeping or bed - sharing with a parent.