Sentences with phrase «child relationships even»

It is believed to be best for children and their parents, as it allows for the continued growth of parental - child relationships even after marriages fail.

This strengthens the parent - child relationship even after divorce.

Under child custody laws in Michigan, joint custody is seen as practical and desirable since this is crucial in a continuing parent - child relationship even after divorce.

Joint custody, when possible, is seen a practical and desirable since this is crucial in a continuing parent - child relationship even after divorce; however, it may be practical when the welfare of the child is jeopardized by one parent.

Successful stepparenting challenges us to take our character development to a higher level: to discipline ourselves to consider the importance of the parent - child relationship even when it may seem to undermine our own needs at times.

Not exact matches

Often, whether a child was adopted or born to one of the parties, only one person in the relationship has legal parental rights even if both are raising the child.

So we fight against that feeling by continually trying to fill our lives with things, accomplishments, hobbies, relationships and possibly even children.

Even Barth, upon whom I have relied here, can not keep from saying that the discontinuity «is not a question of the destruction but of the radical renewal of the child - parent relationship.»

What makes the New Testament household codes powerful and countercultural is that they actually challenge those hierarchies by instructing all members of the household — even the masters, who in that culture held unilateral authority over their slaves, wives, and children — to imitate Jesus Christ in their relationships by modeling his self - sacrificing love.

He believed that a child's emotional and physical well - being depended upon a finely attuned mother - child relationship and that early breaches in this relationship might impede one's ability to bond with others — even in adulthood.

Having overcome so much in her life — including agnosticism, depression, broken relationships, and even child abuse (revealed in her moving book, My Peace I Give You)-- Eden has decided to make yet another courageous decision, recounted in her last chapter: to make a promise of consecrated celibacy to Christ.

The goal is to help the person's adult side (which, as Eric Berne shows, (Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy [New York: Grove Press, 1961] even the most inadequate person possesses) gain strength by functioning, so that it will rescue control of the person's relationships from his child side.

There are some pastors who are emotionally unhealthy because they have virtually abandoned family, children, personal health, and even relationship with God for «the mission.»

Even couples who have not neglected their relationship may encounter stress as they struggle to relearn how to live alone without the children, creatively.

Those of us who have been blessed with children know all to well that our relationships with them will mean we will always have strong connections with them even when they are far away, it's no different with God and his children.

It is about how you can continue (or start anew) to enhance the marriage relationship even when the children are grown and gone and you think you know all there is to know about your spouse.

Even the relationship of teacher and pupils in a school is not fulfilled so long as the instructor by duress and discipline is forcing stolid children to their work.

There is a divisive relationship, even after we become His children.

Many have even lost their relationships with their children as a result.

I've known friends whose «one thing» has been a child, a house, an income bracket, a relationship or even a ministry accomplishment.

Even though children perceive relationships, especially inclusion and exclusion, at very early ages, this fact is disregarded.

Even same sex couples with children should enshrine the life giving relationship between a man and a woman because they remain dependent on this relationship for their children.

A break in one connection, such as attachment to a stable community, puts pressure on other connections: marriage, the relationship between parents and children, religious affiliation, a feeling of connection with the past, even citizenship, that sense of membership in a large community which grows best when it is grounded in membership in a small one.

In the family life of church members, parents mediate the values of the world to children even if they also express their faith in Jesus Christ in family relationships.

Conjugal relationships are, by their nature as the union of man and woman in their respective complementarity, always ordered to the production of children; even if specific couples are unable to have children because of infertility or age, it is still in the nature of the relationship to be procreative.

Behind a smoke screen of piety concerning the difficult job they have to do in «helping» or «providing services,» their purpose is the human equivalent of the breaker's yard: They tear asunder the superstructure of the family and then move to the foundations, demolishing relationships between husband and wife, between parents and children, and even sometimes between the children themselves.

But even if we agree that a father may discipline a child... in a healthy relationship this does not represent boundaries, it represents... love.

So, if you're waiting for God to answer a prayer in your life in some way — if you're waiting for health or wholeness or a relationship or a child or a job — here are four reasons to keep trusting Him, even if His timing doesn't seem to make any sense.

The foundation of parent - child intimacy is laid even before the birth of the baby in the relationship of the parents.

With God, by contrast, I had a wonderful relationship even as a child.

Sex is a beautiful part of your relationship with your spouse, but love goes beyond this to our children, friends, and we're even called to love our enemies.

Constantin Chicioroaga 1971/08/15 — [email protected] I love every day and night on several occasions his partner Stephen, we get along very well, and even think to register our relationship and adopt a few children in Germany!

This will not only strengthen the relationship between our two organizations but also contribute to having an even bigger impact on farming communities and children in particular.»

I hope that one or more of these aphorisms offer these, and through so doing, deepen, soften, and illuminate your relationship with your child — and perhaps even with yourself.

That the closer relationship between children (even young adult children) and parents helps ease transitions, encourages risk taking, and makes developing friendships easier.

I don't want the mal - transformed wife who appeared after we lost a child back, but I would like the chance to rebuild our relationship to where it once was (even though my wife is showing signs of significant mental illness now).

I'm sure there are plenty of irresponsible fathers (as there are mothers), but ultimately I believe that a number of those who do abandon the children do so because of the unbearable grief of losing them through a multitude of incremental losses — I think it is extremely hard to maintain relationships seeing children every other weekend (and an evening dinner).

But, they don't want a husband or even a relationship — they just want a baby, and someone to coparent the child with.

Even if the dysregulation originated in the biology of the child, it affects the relationships, it affects everyone's sleep, it affects parents» sense of self - efficacy, and these in turn affect the child.

Learn why it is important and how to make choices that let you continue your relationship with the children after a divorce and how to maximize the opportunity to be a support to your children, even if they are not living with you.

What has made this parenting strategy even easier to follow is that I am able to find connections with my stepson that have allowed us to have a close relationship without overlap with his father — or with my other children.

Fathers will undertake learning activities that they perceive will benefit their children through: ««a desire to build stronger relationships with their children ««a belief that helping their children to learn is important for their children's success (even when their own school experience was poor) ««a strong desire for their children to do better than they did (Fletcher, 1997).

Unless you suspect that your child's safety is in question, resist the urge to try and squash this relationship (or any friendship), as this may only result in your child digging in his heels and developing a defiant posture, perhaps even maintaining the appearance of a connection with this friend even after it has already cooled and is headed toward its natural conclusion.

Young dads are some of the most marginalised parents in the UK; apart from via a few enlightened services, like Young Dads TV, they often lack support from families and professionals — even when in a close relationship with the mother of their children.

• The stepfather - child relationship is substantially more challenging than the biological - father - child relationship: the relationship is not as close; stepfathers are less affectionate and more coercive with stepchildren; and stepchildren tend to be less warm and affectionate with stepfathers — even in long - term fairly successful stepfamilies (for review see Radhakrishna et al, 2001).

Even fathers who are «not known» loom large; and the more involved fathers are in their children's lives, the closer and better their relationship tends to be.

I sat on the sidelines many evenings and watched my oldest child build relationships with a group of children whom, for the most part, he had never laid eyes on.

Even if you don't experience an orgasm during labor, at least you will have a positive experience that will start your relationship off right with your child.

A full schedule, even when it's made up of thoughtful education - based activities, probably means that a child isn't developing a relationship with the natural world through his senses.

In 1979, one prominent scholar wrote in the Journal of Divorce that divorce even held «growth potential» for mothers, as they could enjoy «increased personal autonomy, a new sense of competence and control, [and the] development of better relationships with [their] children.»