Sentences with phrase «countries have the fewest children»

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That is a tough balancing act for a country that relies on foreign capital to finance its current account deficit - which has doubled to $ 55 billion over the last few years, according to Citigroup - but where the government says three in five children are stunted from malnutrition.

It is probably no easier for people in poorer countries to get used to the idea of having fewer children than it is for us to change our attitudes toward economic growth.

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.

• Few countries have provision for leave or financial considerations for fathers on the birth of their children.

There has been concern raised about a resurgence of vitamin D deficiency and rickets among infants and children, with reports emerging in the United States from Alaska, 1,2 Iowa, 3 Nevada, 4 California, 5 North Carolina, 6 Texas, 7 and mother - infant pairs in Boston, 8 among others.9 The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in young children also appears to be high in other countries, including England, 10 Greece, 11 and Canada.12, 13 One study from China found a 65.3 % prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among 12 - to 24 - month - olds, but few cases (3.7 %) of radiographic or clinical rickets were noted.14 Previous studies suggest risk factors to be dark skin pigmentation1,3 - 12 and breastfeeding without supplementation.1 - 7, 9,12,13 To date, reports have focused primarily on young infants compared with toddlers.

This is one explanation for why developed countries, whose mothers breastfeed for shorter durations (or not at all) and have fewer children in their lifetimes, have higher rates of breast cancer among their populations.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

That being said, many of the country's roughly 11,000 nationally accredited child - care centers are full to capacity and they have begun to waitlist children and families due to few available openings.

It's a lifeline for families up and down the country, particularly for mums who want to get back into work, maybe for just a few hours a week after they've had children.»

In countries like Nigeria, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Afghanistan, women are still averaging more than 5 children per family, while many high - income nations in Western Europe and elsewhere are having fewer than 2 children per woman.

Much of the uncertainty has to do with births and whether citizens of lower - income nations will start to change their ways and have fewer children if and when the standard of living in those countries improves.

DIPG affects a few hundred school - age children across the country each year and has a median survival time of only 10 months; there is no cure.

Few countries have comparable programs providing all - around support for mothers and babies during a child's first 1000 days.

Currently, she highlights, female scientists in countries across Europe are more likely to be unmarried and to have no or fewer children than their nonscientist sisters do.

These four steps can reduce fertility rates quickly and dramatically, say from five or more children per fertile woman to three or fewer within 10 to 15 years, as has occurred in Iran, Tunisia and Algeria among other countries.

«A more complete accounting of the costs of children shows only a few countries in East Asia and Europe where the governments should encourage people to have more children,» said Mason, an economics professor at the University of Hawaii - Manoa.

Autymn came from Kentucky to Nationwide Children's Hospital, which has one of the few Comprehensive Treatment and Research Centers for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) in the country, more than a year ago and is still in the hospital.

As birth rates decline in countries that include parts of Europe and East Asia, threatening the economic slowdown associated with aging populations, a global study from the University of California, Berkeley, and the East - West Center in Hawaii suggests that in much of the world, it actually pays to have fewer children.

«The findings suggest that compared to what we already know about LGBT youth in the U.S., children and youth in these countries have fewer support system resources, which impacts their resiliency.

The couple, who had gotten married in 2010 and had the first of their two children in 2011, had made a few films together, including 1992's «Jamón Jamón» — Bardem's first starring role, in which a teenaged Cruz also appeared — and Woody Allen's 2008 comedy «Vicky Cristina Barcelona,» for which Cruz won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award a year after Bardem had won his own Best Supporting Actor Oscar for «No Country for Old Men.»

A new Gender Report compiled by UNESCO's EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR) for International Day of the Girl Child, shows that fewer than half of countries — of which none in sub-Saharan Africa — have achieved the goal of gender parity in both primary and secondary education, even though all were supposed to achieve it by 2005.

Helen Skelton, TV presenter and former Blue Peter host commented: «Having met and worked with children all over the country over the past few years, it's become increasingly clear that we need to be more creative when offering visual learning.

Though most Americans believe that improving mathematics and science education is crucial to maintaining the country's competitive advantage over other countries in science and technology, few parents push their children to pursue careers in those fields, a survey has found.

Research will be necessary as the children have to know the countries within the continents and a few flags of the most populated countries in the world, together with how education and homes around the world, compare to their own.

A new Gender Report compiled by UNESCO's EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR) for International Day of the Girl Child, shows that fewer than half of countries — of which none in sub-Saharan Africa — have achieved the goal of gender parity in both primary and secondary education, even though all were supposed to achieve it -LSB-...]

The compromise hashed out over the last few months is a reflection of the fact that both parties came to believe that No Child Left Behind had gone too far and more importantly, that the waiver system Duncan implemented to shield states from its harshest penalties had caused a torrent of frustration across the country.

Further inquiry would reveal that this Scandinavian country, together with its Western neighbors, also is a leader in empowering women in politics and perhaps therefore has only a few children who live in poverty, has one of the smallest income inequalities in society, gives every child a right to high - quality early education, offers universal healthcare and free higher education to all, and has - probably for these reasons - one of the happiest people on the planet.

Their schools are small, they have one public school system for the entire country, they do not engage in competition or standardized tests, teachers make individual student success the priority and have the resources and freedom to do so, every school has the similar resources no matter its location, and all parents receive money from the state to help support each child... to name a few strategies explored.

It means talking with parents and community activists worried about children with greater needs having access to fewer resources, local business leaders concerned about protecting the critical contributions of public schools to their local workforce and economy, and many others who have a stake in public education and our country's future.

As our country has doubled the amount we spend per pupil in the last few decades, our students» achievement in English, math and science has remained flat, and our poor and minority children continue to lag behind.

The gap between Hispanics and whites on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card, has stayed fairly stagnant over the past few years in both math and reading, even as the country has become more focused on closing achievement gaps as required by the 2002 federal education law, No Child Left Behind.

The Jaguar's Children succeeds, not just in its portrayal of the Mexican countryside, but it lays bare the complexities of life in a country where jobs are few and far to come by, where NAFTA has upended the country's economics (Mexico, the land of corn, now imports it from the United States, Vaillant reminds us), and where a miracle or immigration are the only ways to some kind of normalcy.

I sold quite a few copies and started hearing from people across the country who had discovered my novels in their library or whose children were doing book reports on them.

«Every child born on our planet has the right to the state - of - the - science life expectancy now shared by a few countries in the global North, not simply a «satisfactory» quality of life.»

Evidence suggests that many women in poor, fast - growing countries would have fewer children if they had the resources and freedom to plan the number and timing of their births.

The total fertility rate remains high in many countries not because women want many children but because they are denied these technologies and information, and often even the right to have fewer children.

Although the mechanism is not without fault, its relatively simple and expedited «prompt return» procedure, with its associated effect on deterrence, has meant that the Hague Convention has been instrumental in reducing the number of international child abductions (not least due to the fact that outside of the Hague Convention mechanism, there are relatively few legal options for promptly returning a child to the country of habitual residence, see for example, Government of Canada, «International Child Abduction: A Guidebook for Left - Behind Parents&raqchild abductions (not least due to the fact that outside of the Hague Convention mechanism, there are relatively few legal options for promptly returning a child to the country of habitual residence, see for example, Government of Canada, «International Child Abduction: A Guidebook for Left - Behind Parents&raqchild to the country of habitual residence, see for example, Government of Canada, «International Child Abduction: A Guidebook for Left - Behind Parents&raqChild Abduction: A Guidebook for Left - Behind Parents»).

Previously, Chris worked in private practice in both Family Law and Criminal Defence and was counsel on one of the leading cases involving B.C.'s Child Protection Agency and a finding of Misfeasance in a Public Office, one of only a few cases in the country where such a finding has been made.

But more often than not, you should not opt for a 20 year plan maybe because you have a finite goal of higher education in 16 years which may be 15 or even 17 years depending on which school she gets through, which country, the rank, admission procedure, season of entry, etc. so these are considerations much later in life, when the child is actually old enough to decide what she wants to study but as a parent you need to start way ahead and thus when you plan for her when she is only 5 years old, you need to financially plan for yourself so that your child gets the lumpsum amount when she is 21 years old and does not need to wait for a few more years for a better return, etc. the child's future will not wait and thus as parent, you need to plan accordingly.

For example, few differences have been found when examining the views of African Americans and Whites, rural and urban adults, and low - and middle - income people as to what constitutes minimally adequate care for children.4, 5 Similarly, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child offers remarkable testimony to what diverse countries and societies consider to be the basic needs or rights of children.

While a number of countries have implemented area - based interventions designed to improve outcomes for children in disadvantaged areas, few have been rigorously evaluated.2 An exception in the UK is Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLP), which was an area - based intervention that targeted all children aged under 4 years and their families.

As one of few home visiting programs operating — and having been evaluated — at scale in low - and middle - income countries, Cuna Más holds valuable workforce lessons that may resonate more broadly with ECD programs and policymakers seeking to reach young children and families around the world:

Very few parents who have been involved in the day - to - day raising of their children are willing to surrender all authority for making decisions to the other parent; this is more likely to occur in situations where they have not been involved in the children's lives (owing to lack of interest, the fact that they live in another country, are in jail, or some other factor that has weakened or severed the parent - child bond).

Most countries have older children who have been removed from their parents and are in need of homes, but only a very few allow these children to be placed outside of their country.

Despite the prevalence of childhood trauma, few early education programs are prepared to help the more than 35 million children in the country who have experienced trauma, researchers say.

A few countries have enacted legislation that requires the use of play therapy to fulfil their obligations to children.

An evolutionary perspective suggests that father involvement has been important in the increased fertility of human hunter - gatherers compared with the other great apes.21 - 23 That observation contrasts, however, with a world today where fertility levels are plummeting in most countries, with fathers typically investing large amounts of resources and care in few offspring over prolonged periods.6, 24 In this latter case, the time and resources provided by fathers may help develop a child's social and educational capital, in turn helping him / her succeed socially as an adult.25