Sentences with phrase «children in the majority»

Both parents are granted legal custody of their children in the majority of child custody cases, unless one parent is determined to be incapable of making such decisions.

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While a hungry child is less likely to be able to focus, most of the research looks at kids who are part of school breakfast programs, which means the majority of those kids come from underprivileged backgrounds and may not be getting enough to eat in general.
In one majority opinion last year, Gorsuch cited the Fourth Amendment in overturning a man's conviction of possessing and sending child pornographIn one majority opinion last year, Gorsuch cited the Fourth Amendment in overturning a man's conviction of possessing and sending child pornographin overturning a man's conviction of possessing and sending child pornography.
A Brainstorm TECH task force of leading educators, technologists, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and investors will present their recommendations for addressing the persistent gap between the digital innovations in K — 12 education and what's actually available to the vast majority of children.
After one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history — 20 children and seven adults killed, not including the gunman — polls show that a slight majority of Americans favor restrictions on guns.
Most Supreme Court watchers are predicting that a majority of justices will side with the petitioner — Mark Janus, a child support specialist for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services — against labor in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31.
In those provinces, parents are required to cover the majority of costs associated with child care.
In 1976, couples with children outnumbered couples without; in 2006, that changed, and couples without children became the majority - yet couples with children earn, on average, more than those withouIn 1976, couples with children outnumbered couples without; in 2006, that changed, and couples without children became the majority - yet couples with children earn, on average, more than those withouin 2006, that changed, and couples without children became the majority - yet couples with children earn, on average, more than those without.
And in some instances, it has been Scalia and Thomas who have done so more than those who may think of themselves less as originalists (in one recent case in particular Scalia and Thomas dissented from the majority which held that convicted child molesters could be indefinitely imprisoned despite having fully served their sentences based on subtle shifts of language and the over-application of prior case law — no one wants a child molester free and about, but such results focused outcomes are always dangerous).
The majority of people in prison are Christians, and lets not forget all those catholic priests who molest children.
A study has found the majority of children in the north of England, Scotland and Wales are born out of wedlock.
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And the majority of that crushing debt was brought to us by the Christian president George W. Bush in the process of slaying Iraqi children based on a lie.
In the United States, the abuse was primarily s — exual in nature and involved mostly boys between the ages of 11 and 17; in Ireland, the allegations involved both physical and s — exual abuse, and children of both s — exes were involved, although a large majority were malIn the United States, the abuse was primarily s — exual in nature and involved mostly boys between the ages of 11 and 17; in Ireland, the allegations involved both physical and s — exual abuse, and children of both s — exes were involved, although a large majority were malin nature and involved mostly boys between the ages of 11 and 17; in Ireland, the allegations involved both physical and s — exual abuse, and children of both s — exes were involved, although a large majority were malin Ireland, the allegations involved both physical and s — exual abuse, and children of both s — exes were involved, although a large majority were male.
A large majority of inner - city children live in single - parent homes.
Still a third national survey (1997) discovered not only that a strong majority of African - Americans (57 percent) and Hispanics (65 percent) favored vouchers, but also that it was precisely the black age group most likely to have children in the public schools (those 26 to 35) who supported vouchers most strongly (86.5 percent!).
The media hounded Tim Farron for his Christian views; they did not regard it as acceptable for him to hold views other than those of the political elite, or the majority, Similarly, our belief in the personhood of the unborn child and the sanctity of their lives enables us to see abortion as a sin crying to heaven for justice, not merely some privately held opinion; for us it is most definitely not «a woman's choice».
Considering this year there will be 78 million members of the Immoral Majority («moms and dads» of aborted children), yes indeed abortion will be a major topic in this election as will be the S - TD epidemic.
«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»
They have already made their choice for the life of their children, and unfortunately they are the majority of parents in our society.
A majority of the damned did not have a true choice in selecting their religion — like many, they imbibed the beliefs of their immediate family as children, when their minds were malleable.
The same applies to the husband's awareness of the unique self - esteem problems of women faced with changing sex roles, the continuing dual - standard in many areas, the increasing period of life after the children are raised and the problem of finding significance therein, and the preparation for creative widowhood which faces the vast majority of women in our culture.
The mainline mix of conventional practice and discursive liberalism is apparently attractive to many young and middle - aged married couples with children, who made up 34 percent of the active adult attendees of mainline churches in the «90s, a clear majority of the active attendees age 60 and under.
In 1960, the overwhelming majority of prime - age white adults (the cohort of 30 to 49 - year - olds that Murray focuses on) in Belmont and Fishtown were married, bore very few children out of wedlock, and rarely divorceIn 1960, the overwhelming majority of prime - age white adults (the cohort of 30 to 49 - year - olds that Murray focuses on) in Belmont and Fishtown were married, bore very few children out of wedlock, and rarely divorcein Belmont and Fishtown were married, bore very few children out of wedlock, and rarely divorced.
In the text itself, he says — correctly — that the majority of children do not demonstrate problems.
A majority of those who work in child care — nearly all of them women — are underpaid and lack the most basic job benefits, even when employed in church - housed centers.
The vast majority of the USA believes in that god but majority doesn't make something fact... almost every child believes in Santa at some point - does that mean Santa is real?
What I found in simply charting my observations was that the majority of the time, my child's behavior was directly affected by the level of intention I invested in my marriage.
Also, statistics have shown that the majority of abusers were themselves victms of abuse as children (that does not mean in any way that the majorty of abused go on to abuse, quite the opposite actually).
So to follow your opinion it would mean the majority of these abusers were so damaged as children that as adults they no longer have it in them to seek God.
Ann B said, on February 2nd, 2010 at 6:34 pm So to follow your opinion it would mean the majority of these abusers were so damaged as children that as adults they no longer have it in them to seek God.
If there is a decent majority in a community, vote to have this enacted, or children could get an excused absence.
Compassion says of the children it was caring for in the aftermath the majority have returned to normal life.
This is a blatent move in an attempt to un-villify Muslims; who after they spawn enough children, will take over the US just like they will in lets say, France!!!! Like rodents, they have numerous children and eventually, they will say that they are in the majority; using our system against us!
The reality of the situation is that the vast majority of the children in public schools in Saudi are muslim, and the statistic for non-muslims would be far less than 1 %.
I fear that it will take some years before public opinion supporting gay marriage (currently, in the US this is a majority; here there is conflicting evidence) goes into reverse, and even longer before gay couples are no longer allowed to adopt children.
I think that if all of us get enough children, we can become majority Muslim in NY within 20 years or earlier.
These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.
Which is one very sensible reason why the majority of teachers in the big city systems do not send their own children to the public schools.
The group also identified with the majority of women in the congregation who are homemakers with growing or grown children and with busy schedules in volunteer work and social activities.
Members of these religious bodies today are children of the people who, coming to majority after World War II, finally lost the capacity as citizens to be genuine political actors in America.
In a society in which a majority of adults not only use alcohol but attach considerable social significance to drinking, it is safe to assume that the majority of persons who are now children and youth will eventually decide to drinIn a society in which a majority of adults not only use alcohol but attach considerable social significance to drinking, it is safe to assume that the majority of persons who are now children and youth will eventually decide to drinin which a majority of adults not only use alcohol but attach considerable social significance to drinking, it is safe to assume that the majority of persons who are now children and youth will eventually decide to drink.
He has observed that the marginalization of women, racial / ethnic / minorities, Dalits, the poor, children, elderly and the sick, in short the majority of the people the world over, has escalated with the spread of the forces of globalization.
That is good that you, and your children give to those who do not have during the holidays, but as I said to another here at this site, if the imposed poverty, the greed, and the in difference, among other wrongs done to the majority of the poor, would not exist, then there would be no need for these handouts.
To illustrate this, if one day this country (or certain parts of the country) become a majority of a different religion (such as Utah is almost all Mormon), then their beliefs can't be forced upon you nor your children in state owned properties.
We seek through the vitality of influence and power to arrest the injustice of others but impose in turn new forms of injustice because we are never as just as we claim to be: parent with child, children with parents, protesters with establishment, majorities with minorities, minorities with majorities, rich nations with poor, and poor nations with rich.
A freedom of information request found the majority of authorities do not have systems in place to measure the scale of the problem, other than collecting statistics on the number of children already receiving help from social services.
Not all women in prostitution are «sex slaves,» and the majority of migrant men, women and children to suffer labor exploitation.
You are assuming that that is the reason people don't have kids or have few, when the majority of people I know who limit their number of children or adopt or foster do so at least in part for society and the environment.
Unless the majority of us in affluent countries change our greedy lifestyles of enormous consumption and waste, the children of the human family will have an impoverished planet within a few decades.
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