Sentences with phrase «children lose fathers»

Six children lose fathers.

In mere hours, Monville lost her husband, and her children lost their father.

by Walter Chaw So here's the thing: there's something really powerful about the archetype of a child losing his father and finding a mentor and, on the flipside, of a father losing a son and finding an apprentice.

Not exact matches

Dr Ekzayez told TIME that it's common to find a home with one father or mother but many children from different families living there because they have lost their caregiver.

«There are many children who lose their fathers and need to work to get food,» he said.

His father told the Press Association: «The fact that I had to lose my first child has been devastating.

But when you think of these men, these women, fathers and mothers who have lost their children, brothers and sisters who have lost brothers and sisters, and the very great pain of such a catastrophe... my heart.

One woman, who lost her husband, John Patrick Salamone, choked back tears while speaking about her children and the absence of their father.

This could only cause confusion in the minds of children (and adults) and fear that they may cause their father to lose his own life.

Elhanan sees a German officer slaughter a father in front of his children and reflects, «That day I lost my faith.»

To put the point another way, if 9/11 drove to church for weeks on end millions of Americans who had not darkened that doorstep in years — as it did — imagine the even deeper impact on ordinary mothers and fathers of a sick child or the similarly powerful desire of a devoted spouse on the brink of losing the other.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

In an instant, wives lost husbands, fathers lost daughters, children lost parents, and a church lost its pastor.

People, who have visions of those missiles crashing into our public buildings, whose friends, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, relatives were killed, whose firemen, policemen, service personnel lost their lives, whose businesses have collapsed, whose futures are in jeopardy, whose grief is overwhelming — can they respond to a call for creative justice?

There was many a father who lost his child; but then it was God, it was the unalterable, the unsearchable will of the Almighty, it was His hand took the child.

After losing his own father to war, he became one of the «Lost Boys of Sudan» who traveled thousands of miles alone as a child to a large refugee camp in Kenya.

My hearer, there was many a father who believed that with his son he lost everything that was dearest to him in the world, that he was deprived of every hope for the future, but yet there was none that was the child of promise in the sense that Isaac was for Abraham.

Jesus is the man of God, standing loyally by the Father's purpose, and loyally by the Father's children, who have lost their way.

The father of billions of lost children, and it breaks his heart that those children turn away from him.

That we, the lost sinners, children away of the Kingdom of Father are now at hand with a great light (Isaiah 9:2), a wonderful surprise that is out of our thoughts, that is the Kingdom of God in which we can not enter but it comes nearer to us enabling us to jump in.

The next week, the father again loses his temper and hits the child over the head with a shovel, and the child goes back to the hospital with severe brain damage.

It is fear, it is torture, it is the impact on the family, it is the loss of work and income, it is the tragedy that affects children when they see the violence used in taking their father away and demolishing him as a person, it is the amazing deterioration of life's possibilities, it is losing one's dreams to become a professional and independent person or becoming someone who could participate more actively in democracy.»

We must seek the Father at all times and not rely on man, and when we are persecuted for being children of God, our blessings will surpass anything that can be inflicted by those whose hearts are lost.

While he was still a child he lost his beloved mother; his father broke with him when he chose to relinquish his own Anglican priesthood to become a Catholic priest.

And if God has compassion precisely upon the seemingly lost, as a father has for his wayward child, so he who regards himself as «less» lost must not remonstrate with him (Luke 15:11 — 32).

His father, Lafayette, broke out in laughter when asked to describe how his son responded to losing as a child.

While Bunning is getting lost in the congressional camaraderie down on the floor, you get lost in the memories of that perfect game on Fathers Day, of the ill - fated ending to that year, of all the 19 - win seasons and the 1 - 0 losses, and — talk about prolific winners — of those nine children of his.

Paternity / parental leave, often with a specific «father quota» (i.e. leave which, if not taken by the father is lost to the family) and the ability to work shorter hours and / or more flexibly when children are young have been available to fathers in Scandinavia for several decades.

Bonding is presented as a major challenge to new fathers, and we are increasingly hearing from men who are doing all they can for their child, but are worried they are «losing the bonding battle.»

Barnes et al (2006) found 8 out of 10 working fathers working unsocial hours that resulted in their «losing» more than 15 hours per week with their children — hours that are never made up.

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).

I lost the ability to develop nurturing skills in my children early on, and my children lost the different ways that fathers nurture their children.

In the next few weeks, expect a frenzied debate on the issue of separated fathers losing contact with their children.

The missing fathers include young men, often unemployed, and sometimes seen as a lost cause by their child's mother, her parents and family services.

The number of fathers losing all touch with their children is often exaggerated, but remains large.

FI calls on government to scrap bedroom tax for separated fathers The Fatherhood Institute is calling on the government to make separated fathers exempt from the bedroom tax and take other steps to «draw in» and support disadvantaged dads — who are more likely to lose contact with their children if they separate from the mother, according to new research.

• Almost half (49 %) of all mums with children under one year old now work • Between 1975 — 1997, dads» care of infants and young children increased 800 % • Dads now take on a quarter (25 %) of the family's childcare - related activities during the working week • 8 out of 10 working fathers work atypical hours and as a result they lose more than 15 hours per week with their children — more than one month (32.5 days) each year.

Another of Quinton's key findings was that background disadvantage was a less powerful predictor of the young fathers» remaining in contact or losing contact than was the quality of the relationship with the child's mother.

Tirado had separated from his wife three years earlier, so for his children, their uncle said, his death was like «losing their father twice.»

A father loses a wife at the same time that a grown child loses a mother.

This book is written for men and women, fathers and mothers, and it also explains how to keep your marriage alive while enduring the crippling pain of losing a child.

«In the first year after divorce, fathers of children age four and under reported that their sense of family well - being plummeted three times more than a man's general wellbeing typically declines when he loses his job.»

«At the other end of the scale, children tended to have greater behavioural problems when their fathers were more remote and lost in their own thoughts or when their fathers interacted less with them.

Award - winning book, Parenting at Your Best comes from a completely different perspective than any parenting book ever written before; from that of a mother and father looking back over their lives as parents after losing their only child in an accident; sharing the things they believe they did correctly as parents, as well as the regrets that often sneak up on them.

Divorce usually means children lose daily contact with one parent — most often fathers.

«As a father, I know what it means to lose a beloved child most especially in this kind of unfortunate circumstances,» Saraki said.

Haters of truth and sentimentalists will call for Oshekomes head, byt will foolishly turn blind eyes to the fact that he have outlaid a child who depends on the father or relative being the invigilator to pass exams will always fail the exam on the day his father or relation is not in the exams hall, that is the case of the EFCC and the FGN, they relied on the judiciary to help them rubbish their opposition or faces they do not like, and have always lost cases because their candidates in the judiciary were not assigned their cases and that is the same head of EFCC Magu that the president keep nominating for confirmation, even when reports indicted him, this recent looses have to confirm to doubting Thomas that Magu is just the best because he can do the dirty work for the APC and Buhari, not because he is the best in corruption fight, I wish there is a listening and discerning government in place back there in Nigeria, they would have known that there is a vacuum as far as EFCC is concerned and use the time to shop for a head that will deliver, it also confirms the fact that the «So called fight against corruption» Is a BIG lie and propaganda, just a wipe to flog opposition into their line, shame on the clapping members and the O yes members who will never hear any criticisms concerning Buhari or anything he does good or bad, bitter or sweet dem go swallow like that shaaaaa.

«Ed Miliband is losing vital battle of first impressions Main Only 36 % of voters think «weird» Ed Miliband, the man too busy to register as the father of his child, is up to the job of being PM»

A study of children in Tanzania, for example, showed that children who lost a father before the age of 15 tended to be a little shorter than their peers, and height is a reasonably good proxy for health.

After a baby is born, a mother's attention is naturally focused on her child, and the father may feel he has lost his companion or is even being excluded.