Sentences with phrase «encourage female children»

International Telecommunication Union Girls in ICT Day is a global effort to encourage female children and young women to take up careers in information and communication technology.

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Foreign groups blame the one - child policy for encouraging couples who want sons to abort female unborn children or kill baby girls.

I encouraged one of our resident psychiatrists, William G. Reiner (already interested in the subject because prior to his psychiatric training he had been a pediatric urologist and had witnessed the problem from the other side), to set about doing a systematic follow - up of these children — particularly the males transformed into females in infancy — so as to determine just how sexually integrated they became as adults.

When you wrote, «statistically men are alpha - dominant and women are beta - dominant,» you were, I believe, failing adequately to acknowledge what I wrote primarily to Adam above regarding the role of culture in encouraging the development of certain qualities and tendencies in male and female children.

The government ended a one - child limit, but the policy already encouraged millions of abortions of females, causing lasting damage

Among the works included are Jonathan Borofsky's Untitled ping pong table, which all are encouraged to play, it posits the opponents at odds with each other as one side of the table is a «plus» and the other is a «minus»; Andreas Gursky's large scale photograph depicts a soccer match between the Dutch and French teams, however with no ball in sight and a player injured on the field, the image speaks to the larger nationalistic ideas of sports; Mike Kelley's Arena # 2 (Kangaroo) is comprised of tattered stuffed animals on a used children's blanket, creating a tableaux about loss of innocence; Kirsten Geisler's interactive female cyborg beckons the viewer with sound recognition software to engage in a dialogue of sorts; Yinka Shonibare's sculpture Hopscotch incorporates a classic children's game with headless mannequins dressed in Colonial attire and Sol LeWitt plays a game of chance in his wall drawing # 716 from 1991 in which there are eight possible lines (vertical lines, horizontal lines, arcs, etc) to be placed in each square of a grid covered wall.

According to the Department of Labor, in addition to allowing you to properly bond with your baby and recover at home, paid family leave is important for four main reasons: it increases female labor force participation, leads to better child health outcomes, encourages men to take paternity leave and serve as caregivers, and increases worker retention and reduces turnover.

[FN29] In type 2 cases (female - initiated violence), fathers should be encouraged to pursue primary custody of their children; [FN30] in type 3 cases (male - controlled interactive violence), both parents are poor role models, but «the parent who can better provide a violence - free environment should be considered as the potential primary caretaker for the child,» [FN31] while in type 4 cases (separation and postdivorce violence), «a range of custody plans, including joint physical custody, are appropriate.»

Dissatisfaction with a less sexually desirable partner when a woman is near ovulation may have encouraged cheating among our female ancestors, thus increasing the likelihood of conceiving children with sexually desirable partners, Larson told LiveScience.