Sentences with phrase «child poverty becomes»

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The number of people below the poverty line, measured in terms of minimum necessary nutritional standards, is said to be going down and yet malnutrition as well as severe physical debilities and destitution are on the increase, especially these affecting women and children, the simple physical capacity of the youngest generation to withstand the strains of living becoming ever more unstable and fragile.»

We learn these things experientially when divorce contributes to the poverty of children and of mothers and when dual - income parents become frantic without the support of kin.

Four concrete and relevant targets by 2025 In order to secure the future of chocolate, Barry Callebaut's new sustainability strategy includes four targets that the company expects to achieve by 2025 and that address the biggest sustainability challenges in the chocolate supply chain: • Eradicate child labor from its supply chain • Lift more than 500,000 cocoa farmers out of poverty • Become carbon and forest positive • Have 100 % sustainable ingredients in all its products CEO Antoine de Saint - Affrique says: «The targets we have set ourselves after a thorough materiality analysis are bold, and we recognize that we do not have all the answers.

Science journalist Paul Tough first became fascinated by how kids in poverty overcome hardship when he met Geoffrey Canada, the charismatic founder of the Harlem Children's Zone, which provided comprehensive support for the disadvantaged, low - income kids in central Harlem.

Children fed on formula are more likely to become sick than breastfed babies and, in conditions of poverty, more likely to die.

Britain, according to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, is on the brink of stepping over an event horizon of doom and becoming a «permanently divided society».

Stories of child poverty are becoming routine when they ought to be simply unacceptable to a wealthy country like Britain.

Child poverty, affordable housing, third rate social services, low pay, a crumbling Dickensian prisons estate which has become a college for radicalisation.

The impact on the working poor, children and seniors would be devastating, effectively obliterating any opportunities for families to escape cyclical poverty and become self - sufficient.

2 - A report from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission saying Britain is on track to becoming ever more divided

What it means is taking steps to ensure that disadvantage doesn't become entrenched, inherited from one generation to the next, so that the children of the poor are condemned to poverty themselves.

Mr Brown's own commitment was also questioned when he failed to make any substantial pledges to child poverty in his first months after becoming prime minister.

He said child poverty, which stood at 34 % when John Major lost the 1997 election, was reduced to just over 27 % by the time David Cameron became prime minister in 2010, but was now back on the rise.

«The developmental skill, executive function, and engagement in classroom - based play are not only important for being «school - ready,» but also may be unique pathways to becoming «civic ready» for children growing up in the context of poverty in America.»

As forests and rivers recede, a child's labor can become more valuable to parents, spurring a vicious cycle that traps families in poverty

Donning a hair color that could only be described as pool chlorine blue / green, a lip piercing, and tattoos, Vinaite herself feels like a slightly more grown up version of who all of the children at the Magic Castle will become when their baby teeth fall out, puberty hits like summer humidity, and poverty hardens a person.

Against the warmth and sunshine of places such as Florida and fun tourist attractions like Disneyland, there is a growing rot swept deep beneath the middle - class where children are expected to become desensitised to poverty and cultural stagnation because they will never experience an alternative lifestyle.

In that year, Sargent Shriver, a holdover from the Kennedy administration who became one of the chief architects of Johnson's War on Poverty, developed the idea for Head Start from his involvement in programs for retarded children (his wife, Eunice, would later found the Special Olympics).

Educators must reflect upon the many labels used to describe children (and their families) who live in poverty, and critique their own use of such terms, to become attuned to the many ways that schools unwittingly limit students» self - determination.

So many issues overlap with educating our children — their mental health, nutrition, housing, policing, and poverty — that it becomes increasingly difficult to approach the work of changing education discreetly.

«Cultivating Young Readers in Communities of Poverty» is the title of Nadia Lopez» (@TheLopezEffect) inspiring blog on «getting children who struggle with phonics and comprehension to become excited about reading.»

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

In June 2016 Schools Week reported that schools were under pressure to become «mini welfare states» to support vulnerable pupils as child poverty increased.

However, by taking it upon ourselves to create a more inclusive and equitable education experience for students regardless of where they start in life, we can help reduce poverty over the long term by helping poor children become more productive during adulthood and creating economic growth in the process.

«Seven years in a row, thousands of children will become part of poverty and crime without a high school degree.»

And they offer reason for cautious optimism that many American children who have been consigned to lives of frustration and poverty might instead become productive, fulfilled citizens.

Achievement gaps between children in poverty and their more affluent peers become apparent by 18 months of age.

It's when poverty combines with chaos at home, adult illiteracy, neglect, unaddressed health issues, constant dislocation, and a neighborhood pervaded by addiction and crime that most children in these environments become, in sociologist William Julius Wilson's phrase, «truly disadvantaged.»

Head Start was created as part of President Lyndon Johnson's «War on Poverty» agenda to help children from disadvantaged families become as school ready as their more affluent peers.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

As leaders and educators, we know that enrollment of minority students is not equally balanced across schools, and that today's children see variations of the segregation their grandparents faced in past decades.1 We know that poverty is becoming more concentrated, and that, in the 2015 - 16 school year, 65 percent of students attending city schools did so in high - poverty or mid-high poverty districts.2 We also know that achievement gaps persist among low income3, special education4 and minority students.5

With determination and humor, Astrid confronts the challenges of loneliness and poverty, and strives to learn who a motherless child in an indifferent world can become.

To put this in perspective, the 2011 poverty guideline for a single mom with two children was $ 18,530 in most states, which leaves 8.6 million single mothers in a difficult financial place that could worsen if they become unemployed and take on greater debt.

At the same time, the spectacle of her uncomplaining mother's slow decline from sheer overwork and poverty might have been an even more realistic influence on her decision to control her own destiny and never to become the slave of a husband and children.

The availability of protective costs orders (PCOs) in judicial review proceedings has, since first considered in R v Lord Chancellor ex p Child Poverty Action Group [1999] 1 WLR (CPAG), become an important part of the judiciary's response to such concerns.

Colorado Worldwide About Blog Compassion International exists as an advocate for children, to release them from their spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty and enable them to become responsible and fulfilled Christian adults.

Mission to unlock the God - given potential of fatherless children facing extraordinary challenges in Egypt, and so equip them to break the cycle of poverty and become change makers in their local communities.

Since father - bonding is tied to providing for children financially, that economic support is central to preventing childhood poverty and providing resources for kids to become academically and socially successful.

Children who do not complete high school, for example, are more likely to become teenage parents, to be unemployed, and to be incarcerated, all of which exact heavy social and economic costs.5 A growing body of research shows that child poverty is associated with neuroendocrine dysregulation that may alter brain function and may contribute to the development of chronic cardiovascular, immune, and psychiatric disorders.6 The economic cost of child poverty to society can be estimated by anticipating future lost productivity and increased social expenditure.

Public policy efforts are needed to protect the health of children affected by poverty and to help families become economically secure.

One study found that in African American families (but not European American families), children who lived with stepfathers were less likely to drop out of high school or (among daughters) have a nonmarital birth.41 Similarly, a study of African Americans living in high - poverty neighborhoods found that girls living with their mothers and stepfathers were less likely than girls living with single mothers to become sexually active or pregnant.

Many Honduran children have become victims of poverty as families struggle to provide for them.

The new policy statement recommends 11 strategies to protect the health of children affected by poverty and help families become more secure:

Home visiting has been part of the landscape of the United States since the late 1800s when home visitors were sent to the homes of the poor to act as exemplars on how to live appropriately.1 Beginning in the 1960s with the War on Poverty, the home visitor became a catalyst for addressing children's health and development through working with parents.1 In 2009, the field was estimated to include between $ 500 million and $ 750 million of state investment and served more than half a million children.2

When children experience strong, frequent, or prolonged adversity — such as physical or emotional abuse, chronic hunger and neglect, caregiver substance abuse or mental illness, exposure to violence, or the accumulated burdens of family poverty — the stressful environment can become toxic.

Government can not alone protect all children.3 Children become collateral damage of poverty, low wages, social isolation, addiction, untreated mental illness, lack of parentingchildren.3 Children become collateral damage of poverty, low wages, social isolation, addiction, untreated mental illness, lack of parentingChildren become collateral damage of poverty, low wages, social isolation, addiction, untreated mental illness, lack of parenting skills.

Many children around the world have lost their parents and are suffering in poverty, and it has become quite popular for American families to adopt these children.

Priority emphasis is given to combating poverty, helping children become productive adults and citizens, promoting wellness, and mitigating disabilities.

In no circumstances should the conditions of poverty become one of the driving factors for increasing incarceration rates, the removal of children, poor health and violence.

Further, the ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds of families are becoming more diverse in America and children at greatest psychosocial and physical risk are more likely to be raised in poverty by parents with limited educational backgrounds (Repetti, Taylor, & Seeman, 2002).