Sentences with phrase «eliminate threats to the child»

«While the incidence of childhood lead poisoning is decreasing in New York State, it is time that we eliminate this threat to our children's health once and for all.

Not exact matches

National health watchdog launches legal action to eliminate the health threat to children from acrylamide in animal crackers and ginger snaps

In September, California Gov. Jerry Brown resisted Duncan's threat to withhold $ 7.3 billion in federal funding if he signed into law Assembly Bill 484, which effectively eviscerates accountability (and gets around the administration's decision to not grant the Golden State a waiver from No Child on its own terms) by eliminating all but a smattering of the state's standardized tests.

However, they believed mothers would support their mission to eliminate threats that endangered children, and in early 1897, they started a nationwide campaign.

There also is sufficient research to conclude that child care does not pose a serious threat to children's relationships with parents or to children's emotional development.1, 2,9 A recent study of preschool centres in England produced somewhat similar results: children who started earlier had somewhat higher levels of anti-social or worried behaviour — an effect reduced but not eliminated by higher quality.17 In the same study, an earlier start in care was not found to affect other social measures (independence and concentration, cooperation and conformity, and peer sociability), but was found to improve cognitive development.

Limitations include an internal validity threat due to changes in child placement, which eliminated subjects from the sample at follow - up and reduced the study's power.

But see Maccoby & Mnookin, supra note 27, at 11 (finding that no empirical studies exist to support the contention that divorcing husbands routinely use the threat of a custody fight to reduce or eliminate their alimony and child support obligations).