Sentences with phrase «children are citizens»

Usually, children are citizens or residents of the same country as their parents.

Children Are Citizens, part of the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Project Zero, is dedicated to the notion that children are not just future citizens; they are citizens now, with the right to express their opinions and participate in the civic and cultural worlds around them.

(b) The party has strong family and community ties to Florida or to other states or countries, including whether the party or child is a citizen of another country;

Not exact matches

As for the horrors of the battle, many German citizens — including children — were forced to defend the city.

Besides, for the hundreds of millions of rural peasants who have already migrated to cities — supplying factories with an endless supply of cheap labour — life in cities like Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen means being treated like second - class citizens, since their access to social services and education for their children is tightly limited.

But in a recent interview, he also says there's something parents should definitely try to do if they want to spend time with their children and be there to help them grow into healthy, successful citizens.

The change could affect the more than 4 million US citizen children under 18 who live with at least one undocumented parent, as well as the approximately 1 million more so - called «dreamers» who were brought the US by their parents as children and remain undocumented.

As the law stands now, undocumented parents can receive a federal income tax credit up to $ 1,000 annually for each child, the vast majority of whom are American citizens.

Currently, family of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents, including siblings and adult children, are able to apply.

The immigration plan will help undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents, and young immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children.

Wealthy Chinese citizens are buying beachfront condos in Cyprus, paying big U.S. tuition bills for their children and stocking up on luxury goods in Singapore, frequently moving cash secretly through a flourishing network of money - transfer agents.

There are also rebates for foreign buyers who have children attending school here, as well as those that will become citizens.

Beijing may hope for a second - child baby boom but Chinese citizens have mixed feelings about the country's famous one - child policy being abandoned.

Israel doesn't want to build walls and checkpoints, they HAVE TO because too many innocent citizens — many of them children — were being killed.

When, in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared his «dream» — that we Americans should one day become a society where a citizen's race would be an irrelevancy, where black and white children would walk hand - in - hand, where persons would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character — this seemed to many Americans both a noble and attainable goal.

With courts increasingly willing to nullify popular legislation and proclaim new rights, legislators are encouraged to avoid their responsibility for tackling controversial issues; interest groups are encouraged to take their cases to the courts rather than to try to persuade their fellow citizens; and citizens get the feeling that they have no say in setting the conditions under which they live, work, and raise their children.

No, secularists are forcing their filthy doctrines upon American citizens especially on children.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

After a handful of years of getting to know teenagers and young adults who were brought to the US as children, or who were citizens themselves but continually feared their parents» deportation, this church felt compelled to act.

The Bible teaches how to be a child of God, a citizen of heaven, if you want to be there in the end.

Examples abound, but here are two: the Oriental Exclusion Act (1924), which prohibited most immigration from Asia, including foreign - born wives and the children of American citizens of Chinese ancestry; and United States vs. Bhaghat Singh Thind (1923), in which the Supreme Court ruled that Indians from the Asian subcontinent can not become US citizens.

- how you can call yourself «family values» voters while supporting Trump's mass deportation, which would orphan or displace 4.5 million children who are U.S. citizens but who have at least one parent who is an undocumented immigrant,

To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.

Women, men, children, unemployed people, excluded and oppressed people, workers, landless peasants, communities suffering from racism, impoverished city dwellers, indigenous peoples, students, intellectuals, migrants, small business people, outcasts, declining middle classes - citizens - are asserting their dignity, demanding respect for their human rights and natural heritages, and practising solidarity.

on behalf of a man who was not denied his freedom of speech but merely his freedom from reproach for freely speaking hatred, Syrian families were being murdered, Honduran children were falling ill from unclean water, and American citizens were being denied equality.

In the United States the first years of education were primarily to prepare children coming from many countries to be citizens.

The number of U.S. citizens trafficked within the country each year is estimated 200,000 American children at risk for trafficking into the sex industry (U.S. Department of Justice.

Another one of our presidents, John Quincy Adams, said, «So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society.

Our sins are forgiven — Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14 and 2:13, Galatians 1:4 We have peace with God — Romans 5:1 We have the righteousness of Christ imputed to us — 2 Corinthians 5:21 We are a new creature in Christ — 2 Corinthians 5:17 We are baptized into the body of Christ — 1 Corinthians 12:13 We are indwelt with the Holy Spirit — 1 Corinthians 6:19 We are sealed with the Spirit — Ephesians 1:13 We are sealed with the Spirit unto the day of redemption — Ephesians 4:30 We are preserved in Christ — Jude 1 We will be confirmed to the end by Christ — 1 Corinthians 1:8 We are citizens of the household of God — Ephesians 2:19 We are children of God — Galatians 3:26 We are in the kingdom of God's Son — Colossians 1:13

is, I suggest, like asking, why teachers have pupils, statesmen citizens, composers musicians to play their compositions, painters canvasses to paint, friendly persons other persons or animal pets to enjoy; or why people want children as well as adults around them.

The dumping of all adults into a unified life style called marriage may guarantee to a military empire the child - warriors it needs and to an economic empire the consumer - citizens it is greedy for — but it can not guarantee the existence of the authentic cell of society which is love - justice.

Control over what kind of children should be born when has fostered the idea that citizens can and should judge between auspicious and burdensome life and auspicious and burdensome families.

In 1 BC, a Roman citizen wrote to his wife telling her to kill her unborn child if it turned out to be a girl.

Americans especially the U.S. varieties are such a well rounded mixed breed of immigrants whose children were born there or here since I am a born U.S. citizen.

If the children are mean or rude or disrespectful, the leading citizens of the community will cluck their tongues and say, «The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.»

If you want to educate the citizens about Islamic culture, perhaps you could use these days as teaching tools and head down to the schools and clear up some misconceptions people have — like the Jewish parents and Islamic parents did when I was a child.

Islam's tolerance of other faiths has always been that of «you can be a second - class citizen so long as your keep your mouth shut and give us your money and your children.»

I raised my children as atheists and they share my values and are upstanding citizens of which any parent of any religion would be proud.

Charters are public schools that boards of local citizens can apply to open and run under state oversight, and that any child can attend.

And if it's really all about children, we better quit letting senior citizens get married and force infertile couples to divorce.

Among God's true children and citizens of His Kingdom, there is no rule to say she can't talk.

We now live in a culture in which about half of all marriages end in divorce; in which nearly half of all children spend part of their childhood in fatherless homes; in which women and men who put their families first are falling behind economically and professionally; in which many of the nation's youngest citizens are starving for parental time and attention, and often for basic material necessities.

And it's very unhealthy for democracy when the courts — without clear constitutional warrant — deprive citizens of the opportunity to have a say in setting the conditions under which we live, work, and raise our children.

Take, for example, the common contention that Hitler acted coercively when he placed Jews in concentration camps or the claim that parents are acting coercively when they finally pick up their recalcitrant children and make them go to bed or the common contention that a government is acting coercively when it refuses to give its citizens any input into the formulation of the laws by which they are governed.

Basically: Building the big fence isn't that realistic, the real problem is that we don't have legal immigration available for the workers we really need, and in - state tuition isn't an entitlement for citizens and could reasonably be extended to children who are destined to be permanent and, it is to be expected, productive members of your state.

In that canon the family was assigned the primary role in socializing children to become the law - abiding, hard - working citizens needed to make the democratic experiment work.

Is my ministry more a vocation than my marriage, or my responsibility as a citizen less than my relationship to my children?

They had started a family in Los Angeles, and their two children were U.S. citizens by virtue of birth.

Mormon volunteers in Ghana, for example, arranged for 1.5 million text messages to be sent to fellow citizens in support of the country's launch of vaccines against pneumonia and rotavirus, two diseases that together claim the lives of more than 2 million children around the world every year.

Further, it is important that things be done «decently and in order,» that one gets involved in programs of social welfare: finding food for the poor, finding shelter for the homeless, addressing unmet needs of children and senior citizens, and that one seeks to promote responsible social action in the affairs of state and nation.