Sentences with phrase «children than white children»

Not exact matches

Studies also show that the emotional costs borne by children of color being raised by white parents - which often occurs with international adoptions - are less dire than critics believe.

And on Monday, it involves hosting no fewer than 21,000 children and adults for the annual Easter Egg Roll, a 139 - year - old tradition and the Super Bowl of White House social events.

She is facing a gauntlet shared by black mothers, one that is in many ways far different than those that white mothers of white children must endure.

According to the U.S. Census, by «2020 less than half of children in the United States are projected to be non-Hispanic white alone (49.8 percent of the projected 73.9 million children under age 18).»»

«From 2012 to 2014,» the researchers note, «the annual firearm homicide rate for African American children (3.5 per 100000) was nearly twice as high as the rate for American Indian children (2.2 per 100000), 4 times higher than the rate for Hispanic children (0.8 per 100000), and ∼ 10 times higher than the rate for white children and Asian American children (each 0.4 per 100000).»

«More than 2,000 years ago, a child was born to two faithful travelers who could find rest only in a stable, among the cattle and the sheep,» Obama said at the tree lighting ceremony, a longstanding White House tradition.

For example, Martin Luther King in the last decade had a dream that one day white children and black children would walk and work together in a land where character counts rather than color.

The New Yorker Book of Kids» Cartoons (2001) features only three cartoons with families of more than two children — one a family of fish, another of cats, and a third an obviously poor, white, working - class family.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

Repeated studies have shown that there is a greater incidence of child molestation and incest among southern white evangelical christians than in any other group that participated in the study.

Now, compare her children or grandchildren, who are standing in the doorway watching, with my children, who think that chicken comes from a kindly old Kentuckian with a white goatee, and one arrives at an observation and then a question of wider than cultural significance.

The dark skinned Lamanite loved their wife and children better than the white fair skinned Nephite.

I'm just going to say it: this is the best macaroni cheese I've ever eaten — better than the macaroni cheese I ate as a child; better than the macaroni cheese I brought my own children up on when they were little (they don't agree); better than any fancy restaurant macaroni cheese with white truffle or lobster; better than any macaroni cheese I have loved in my life thus far, and there have been many.

In less than a decade it had gone from a Tasmanian family run business to the poster child for Australian success in China as it took advantage of surging demand for foreign infant formula which became known as «white gold».

Factor in that poor black children are almost three times more likely to be held back in school than their white counterparts.

Their children, rather than those of highly - paid white collar workers, are currently most likely to be experiencing the benefits of greater father involvement.

Consider baking cookies, muffins or quick breads, with the children helping, using less sugar than most recipes call for and substituting vegetable oil for hard fats and whole wheat flour for some of the white flour.

If the age of your child is greater than 6 months and you want to order something different for the child, you can go for the PRIMO EuroBath Pearl White.

Children enjoy flavored milk more than white milk, but you can control the amount of flavoring and reducing it over time so that they are not getting increased sugar in their diet.

Your child's smile is probably the brightest it'll ever be, since baby teeth are whiter than permanent teeth.

It may take little more than a white - noise machine, a bedside fan or humidifier and heavier drapes to help your child sleep better.

I feel that getting a child together is much more of a proof of love and commitment than a contract and a white dress are.

At all three ages, African - American children were spanked significantly more frequently than those from white and Mexican - American families, and verbally punished more than the other children at ages 2 and 3, the study said.

So if you take a whole breast, white meat, low fat, reduced breading and oven bake it, the chicken nugget that is being fed to children is better THAN ANY FAST FOOD OR RESTAURANT THAT DEEP FRIES THEIRS?

This father was surprised when he asked his children what they identified as, and rather than replying with one or more parts of their background (Latino, Asian, Black), they reply with, «White.»

Latino children are less likely to get an autism diagnosis and treatment than white children, even though the autism rate is gr...

Adoption agencies had little use for children other than healthy white infants.»

To investigate whether perinatal outcomes among interracial Asian - white couples are different than among Asian - Asian and white - white couples.This was a retrospective study of Asian, white, and Asian - white couples delivered at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital from 2000 - 2005.

Healthy white newborn babies sell for more than darker skinned, less healthy babies or older children.

But prenatal testing can not tell you who your child will be, anymore than a fuzzy, black and white sonogram can tell you how your child will look.

Our research (with mainly college - educated, white - collar fathers) shows that today's fathers spend an average of 2.5 hours per workday with their children and more than 3 out of 4 would like to have even more time with their offspring.

Because wealthy white men and women who have children with more than one partner are not the focus of the research on multi-partner fertility, they are largely exempted from conclusions about its dire consequences, such as increased substance abuse, poor educational outcomes and behavioral issues.

Sure, kids can get calcium from sources other than milk, but the best non-dairy calcium sources are things like canned fish with bones and skin (like sardines or salmon), white beans, turnip greens, and kale — not exactly kid favorites, and children would have to be eating these foods in sufficient quantities three times a day, every day, to get the same amount of calcium as they get from milk.

Overall, one in three children in the U.S. struggle with obesity, but Black, Latino, Native American and Alaska Native kids are more than one and a half times more likely to be obese than white kids.

Schools that serve children of color, who are at much higher risk of childhood obesity than white children, have been conspicuously missing from the debate and experts say the opposition could negatively impact the NSLP in the long run.

One kind of tuna — albacore, or white — has enough mercury that young children, women of childbearing age, pregnant women and nursing mothers are advised to eat no more than one serving per week.

And when it comes to these children, who are so dependent on school meals for daily nutrition, it's incontestable that they are better served by the HHFKA's healthier school food mandates than by the SNA's current desire to return to foods higher in white flour and sodium, fruits and vegetables that kids are able to spurn on a daily basis, and school snack bars replete with pizza and fries.

If you've ever stood in the cafeteria line at a school, you will know that not very many children choose white milk over chocolate or strawberry — both of which have more sugar per fluid ounce than soda.

Fathers across all racial groups had significantly higher earnings than men without children, yet white fathers received the highest earnings premium, followed by Latinos and African - Americans.

The guest judge (Kass out of the White House) did say that he would only take $ 4 for operating expenses out of their $ 138 budget to serve those 50 children, and that most schools had to spend much more than that on supplies, staff, etc..

Pro-transracial adoption advocates argue that there are more white families seeking to adopt than there are minority families; conversely, there are more minority children available for adoption.

Exposure to SSB [sugar - sweetened beverage] ads decreased over time at all ages, but the decrease was less for black than white children.

«Black children were slightly older at the first admission than white children, which could represent a subtle marker of diminished access to medical care or a delay in disease recognition,» said Dr. Dotson, who explained other studies have shown that the role of biology in health disparities in chronic diseases is often modest, and there are many other factors, such as access to care and health literacy, that contribute to disparities in care.

However, black children are diagnosed with ASD at older ages than white children and children of other races.

In this week's Science Vukusic and his colleagues report that the bug's five - micrometer - thick scales were whiter than a child's baby tooth, which is encased in a millimeter - thick layer of white enamel.

White educators, by contrast, may be acting on a stereotype that black preschoolers are more likely to misbehave in the first place, so they judge them against a different, more lenient standard than what they're applying to white chilWhite educators, by contrast, may be acting on a stereotype that black preschoolers are more likely to misbehave in the first place, so they judge them against a different, more lenient standard than what they're applying to white chilwhite children.

More than 50 AAAS staff members volunteered 6 April at the 137th annual White House Easter Egg Roll, spending a sunny Easter Monday on the South Lawn of the White House with more than 35,000 children and families, as well as Dora the Explorer, Cookie Monster, and the Cat in the Hat.

For instance, if a school wants children to drink more white milk than chocolate milk, they can make white milk more convenient (put it in the front of the cooler), more attractive (sell it in a shapely bottle), or more normal (give it half of the cooler space instead of a small corner of the cooler).

More than 60 percent of African American, Latino, and American Indian children live in low - income families, compared to about 30 percent of white and Asian children.

There was some evidence of racial / ethnic disparities — among four - year - olds, rates of early evaluation were lower in black children than in white children.