Sentences with phrase «families are in distress»

Sometimes families are in distress and don't know what to do.

When a family is in distress it can have many negative effects on the functioning of each individual family member, and create a lot of pain.

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It is also important to note that liabilities, such as outstanding bank loans, guarantees, lease agreements and payments to suppliers are usually not insured, leaving the personal assets of business owners pledged against these liabilities, and potentially leaving family members in financial distress.

Let explore them Your bread is not dependent on returns from markets This is an obvious edge, bear market or bull market, you take home a salary thereby ensuring basic necessities of you and your family is taken care of, you don't have to sell your shares in distress to pay bills.

Captain «Sully» Sullenberger pilots a distressed plane to land safely on the Hudson River in New York City with no deaths, and it's a miracle from God; a young girl is found in India, totally terrorized, but alive after being abducted and ra.ped for a week, and it's a miracle from my competi.tor Rama (or Vishnu or Shiva) that she is returned to her parents; or a family in Northern Pakistan survives an errant American missile attack, and it's a miracle from Allah.

One might well ask: What is the point of all of these distressing details when the end of the novel will, in most cases, be a sentimentalized scene of happy family life?

«Ferguson and Stephens, Riverside Baptist Church's media minister, traveled to Indonesia with Imam Sugianto, a member of Riverside's Indonesian mission congregation, to videotape the persecution Ambonese Christians are enduring.Members of that mission congregation — many of whom have friends and family in Indonesia — are extremely distressed that U.S. media aren't telling the story of what is happening...

The pastor's opportunity to stand with the family in their lonely, confused distress is one of the privileges of being a clergyman.

Certainly, Pope Leo XIII's great encyclical, Rerum novarum, was pretty clear, at one point arguing that the government should come to the aid of families only as a last resort: «True, if a family finds itself in exceeding distress, utterly deprived of the counsel of friends, and without any prospect of extricating itself, it is right that extreme necessity be met by public aid...».

We now know that, in all socioeconomic groups, children raised outside of intact two - parent families are significantly more likely than their peers to drop out of high school, end up in prison and experience serious psychological distress.

If Phelps and his co-defendants are liable for the intentional infliction of emotional distress in this case, what is to prevent another judge and jury from ordering monetary damages in a case against the owners of the proposed Islamic community center near ground zero for inflicting emotional distress on the families of 9/11 victims?

It was just in this period that, as Nathan Glazer put it in The Limits of Social Policy, we witnessed «the breakdown of traditional ways of handling distress,» ways that «are located in the family primarily, but also in the ethnic group, the neighborhood, the church.»

If one is mentally ill the whole family is caught up in the distress.

What has proved most comforting has been my sense, conveyed also by friends, of being part of a body — my seminary, my church, my family — that itself seeks meaning in distress.

Unfortunately, many of the families in the study who were informed of the strangulation hazard preferred to continue to use them because of their irrational fear of seeing their child in distress.

International experience demonstrates that, once the new scheme works in London, it will be quickly adopted nationally because of the savings in time, money and grief to already distressed families.

The distress families endure from NICU admissions can't be quantified, and is in fact, a major reason families opt for birth within their own home; they want to avoid complications associated with unnecessary admission.

Our mission at Kids In Distress (KID) is to prevent child abuse, preserve the family, and treat children who have been abused and neglected.

Women who are supported in transforming areas of distress into wellsprings of resourcefulness learn to make the delicate adjustments needed in giving birth, in creating family, and — with each subsequent birth — in creating family anew.

Possible Repercussions Be aware that reporting distressing information to another parent may result in a loss of a friendship, strained relations between families or the other parent not believing her teen would do such a thing.

Additionally, adolescents in single - mother and single - father families are at higher risk of risky behaviors, victimization, and mental distress compared to those in two - parent families.

Day and night time wetting are common in childhood and can often become a source of distress for the entire family.

If raising mini-humans who are in touch with and can effectively manage emotions is a goal for parents, Dr Sarah Buckley, family physician and author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering, affirms the importance of consistent parental emotional love and support — particularly when our infants are in distress.

Yet, severe sleep disturbances can persist if not treated, which may potentially affect early parenting relationships and several areas of children's development.More specifically, sleep problems in children are a significant source of distress for families.

«Whilst there is no set pattern of self harm, it can be caused by being located away from family, bad news from home or partner, bullying or the distress of being in custody.»

«Your work in the U.S. Senate on issues important to the family is well known, as is your close association with Family Research Council and the work we do, which makes the association all the more distressing,» Perkins wrote in a letter provided to CNN by thfamily is well known, as is your close association with Family Research Council and the work we do, which makes the association all the more distressing,» Perkins wrote in a letter provided to CNN by thFamily Research Council and the work we do, which makes the association all the more distressing,» Perkins wrote in a letter provided to CNN by the FRC.

«I have had dozens and dozens of letters from women who are deeply distressed that because they did what most people would think was the right thing to do - look after their families or an elderly relative - they lose out in retirement,» she told the Daily Mail newspaper.

«It truly has been my pleasure to work with the county administration, the other professional department heads and the dedicated workers throughout County government in my call to serve the indigent in distress in our county family courts,» Furno said.

Governor Cuomo launched the NYS Community Schools initiative in 2013, a statewide program that is transforming schools in distressed communities into hubs for a wide range of support services for children and their families, including health care, counseling, nutrition, and job preparation services.

«Three hundred good jobs are at stake in the Mohawk Valley right now, and every day that goes by without resolution is another day of distress for these workers and their families.

«It's far too early to draw conclusions at this stage and to indulge in speculation would be distressing to the family and irresponsible given the issues involved,» he said.

He said in a statement: «I am very conscious that the allegations and investigation will cause great distress to my family and friends.

There are many families in distressed and facing tough realities.

The deal also would provide $ 15 million for transforming schools in distressed areas into community hubs where afterschool programs and social, health and other services would be provided to support students and their families.

«They could be distressed by the election, but did not show psychological symptoms of depression if they have either strong family support or robust activity in these brain regions,» Tashjian said.

Average mortality rates were significantly higher in counties with greater economic and family distress and in counties economically dependent on mining.

When someone in my family has a stomach ache or is experiencing any sort of digestive distress (from perhaps eating out or too many sweets at a party), slippery elm is by far my favorite medicinal herb (aka bitters) to use as a soothing tonic.

Participants were asked to imagine themselves in a distressing situation and then imagine a family member in the same one.

The family spent 4 weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) where Nolan was diagnosed with a pneumothorax, dysphagia / dysplexia, hypotonia, respiratory distress, and failure to thrive.

Though many of the mundane and enduring conflicts that erupt between mother and daughter are rooted in financial distress, the family's struggles become manifest in more subtle and devastating ways: Lady Bird's mother works a double on her 18th birthday, and her father, Larry (Tracy Letts), has to go back on expensive pills to treat depression because he's just lost his job.

Poltergeist, on the other hand, was the very quintessence of a Steven Spielberg film, from its familiar suburban family in distress to its richly - detailed mise en scène.

Set in early 1900s England, The Winslow Boy follows the Winslow family, who are distress to find that the young 14 - year - old Winslow boy has been thrown out of the royal naval academy for stealing a postal order.

Having two ogres in the family is especially distressing to the King (John Cleese) because he cut a deal with Fairy Godmother (Jennifer Saunders) promising Fiona to Prince Charming (Rupert Everett).

Judy Garland holds the film and the family in it together as the girl who only wants to love the boy next door, but it's Margaret O'Brien as the little willful sister who adds the extra bit of oomph, especially in the manic Halloween scene and the violent Christmas scene that carries the film from an exercise in sentimentality into a deeper territory of loss and distress.

It's got the requisite creepy house in the country, a damsel in distress clad in a white nightgown (really brings out the red in the blood), and of course, a twisted family secret and plenty of ghosts.

A Fantastic Woman's most powerful moments arrive in fragments when Marina truly comes to her own, and there is a snapshot of her life outside Orlando's family's distressing influence over hers.

Nonprofits, higher education institutions, and American Indian tribes are eligible to compete for the $ 30 million in funds to help distressed urban and rural neighborhoods build a comprehensive continuum of education programs and family services to boost student learning.

Priority for scholarships would be given to students who received a scholarship in the prior year; students with family income below 185 % of the federal poverty threshold; and students with family income in the preceding year below 185 % of the federal poverty threshold who also reside in Philadelphia or financially distressed school districts.

I regret deeply that they ignore the compelling human issues facing American public education — like budget cuts that threaten kids» education, economic distress that causes real hardship for children and their families, and child poverty that is above 20 percent in the country and tragically still rising.

A decade ago, Sax, a family physician with a doctorate in psychology, began to notice a distressing trend: Parents were concerned about their unmotivated, underachieving sons.