Sentences with phrase «families are in trouble»

Who can be called when families are in trouble?

«In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families are in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it.»

It «s true that fatherless families are in trouble, particularly when it comes to raising sons.

But a leading child - development expert cautions that two - parent families are in trouble, increasingly hard - pressed to do the thing that human society has always relied on families to do: develop the competence and character of children.

In his first and most controversial essay he diagnoses the African - American situation and shows that the African - American family is in trouble.

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And there's this interesting tidbit too: One quarter of business executives surveyed said they are simply more effective communicating in their businesses than in their personal lives, which may factor into why so many have trouble communicating plans for passing on their businesses to family members.

The agency commissioned a survey that found 720,000 families would struggle to make payments on their home - equity loans if interest rates rose by a mere 0.25 percent, and almost one million would be in trouble if borrowing costs rose a full percentage point.

The movie was based on the true story of a wealthy Mississippi family that took in a local football player with a troubled past.

Spielberg still gives us his baseline theme that is in almost all of his movies: the main character's troubled family life.

Troubles have been brewing in recent years due to difficulties with Bombardier's new family of commercial jets, the CSeries.

The attorney for the family who took him in after his mother's death said they were aware of trouble he'd earlier had at school and saw signs of depression.

While there has been a noticeable shift among family offices toward real estate following the bubble — as many took advantage of the troubled real estate market post-crash and scooped up valuable assets at a discount to pre-recession valuations — this allocation is still remarkable and outside the typical family portfolio composition reported in our survey.

«This family did what they thought was right, which was take in a troubled kid and try to help him, and that doesn't mean he can't bring his stuff into their house.

Equally eyebrow - raising is his linking of contraception to the breakdown of families, female impoverishment, trouble in the relationship between the sexes, and single motherhood.

He is a convinced and convincing proponent of classical liberalism, which means he is today what is called a conservative, and is especially effective in urging that we recover the role of the institutions of civil society» most importantly the family» in constructing a democracy less troubling to the common good.

The trouble is, of course, the ocean is big, and the Gastonguay family found themselves in a lot of trouble after a series of squalls got them hopelessly off course.

In this troubled economy, my large family have all had jobs and are prospering and thriving.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

In this regard there is some envy by social workers and counselors who are genuinely concerned for people, but whose own structured roles do not include the opportunity to drop in on a family in a congregation to say, «I thought I would come by; you seem troubled.&raquIn this regard there is some envy by social workers and counselors who are genuinely concerned for people, but whose own structured roles do not include the opportunity to drop in on a family in a congregation to say, «I thought I would come by; you seem troubled.&raquin on a family in a congregation to say, «I thought I would come by; you seem troubled.&raquin a congregation to say, «I thought I would come by; you seem troubled.»

If they have trouble with this, professional help is essential in order for family members to learn the communication skills they need to help themselves.

Therefore a troubled teen like Tracy has few resources outside the immediate family According to research from the National Study of Youth and Religion, religiously active teens are much less likely to engage in risky behaviors than nonreligious teens.

After all, she was a poor girl in an immigrant family with a great deal of financial and medical troubles, for all their pre-Raphaelite pretensions.

A troubling situation is unfolding in Pakistan, where five Christian families have reportedly been forced to flee their homes in the village of Sukheki in the Punjab province.

According to her, the legal trouble all centers around her trying to stay in the United States: «The only thing that I've done is use false documents to put food on the table of my family,» Vizguerra told Inside Edition through a translator at the church.

Where the pastor is the only person making calls in times of family tragedy, the only person sought for counsel in times of trouble, this can lead to a misuse of God - given gifts for ministry.

Why are marriage and the family in trouble?

The Holy Father set in motion these past two years of contention and, one hopes, constructive dialogue in the Church because he knows that marriage and the family are in deep trouble throughout the world, just as he knows that marriage, rightly understood, and the family, rightly understood, are the basic building blocks of a humane society: the family is the first school of freedom, because it is there that we first learn that freedom is not mere willfulness; marriage, for its part, is the lifelong school in which we learn the full, challenging meaning of the law of self - giving built into the human heart.

Marianne's relationship to the human family, to her sisters in the Third World, is troubled, privatistically crippled.

The most remarkable aspect about this reaction is that the Moynihan report itself took great pains to identify white bigotry as the fundamental cause of the breakdown of the black family: «There is a considerable body of evidence,» says the report, «to support the conclusion that Negro social structure, in particular the Negro family, battered and harassed by discrimination, injustice, and uprooting, is in the deepest trouble.»

Abortion can end when the Church comes to the aid of those mothers - to - be are in trouble and families are scared to bring a child into the world — not working against them.

Thirteen - year old Guled Adan Abdi has not been able to go to school consistently because of his family's financial troubles, but he has become an inventor in his spare time.

Poor performance in the School of Communion translates into failure in the classroom and trouble at work — places where the virtues gained in family life are essential for success.

If all the troubles in the family of an alcoholic were the direct effects of alcoholism, it would be reasonable to assume that, given a certain period of time after sobriety, most of these troubles would disappear.

While marriage and family are in fairly sturdy shape among college - educated whites, the nuclear family has almost disappeared among inner - city blacks and appears to be in increasing trouble among working - class whites.

Children of single - parent families are far more likely even when they are not poor to do badly in school, get in trouble with the law, have poor mental and physical health, and have marital difficulties later in life.

I may get into some trouble for saying this, but I don't care; we simply can't afford any more suicides or families caught in the middle: I think it's time for evangelicals to confront reality and move away from the «reparative therapy» approach, which seems to be doing far more harm than good.

I will let the professionals in family therapy, psychology, and psychiatry hash out the question whether this is a particularly helpful framework for counseling troubled souls.

Luther was partly worried but also expressed himself as pleased with this and said he knew the girl's family, in a letter from the Wartburg — his middle - aged colleague would be delivered from the «unclean'troubles of the celibate.

We argue, with a wealth of supporting evidence, that the family is in deep trouble.

On the terrain of conservative Protestantism, especially in the regions and social classes where families remain large and strong and where leaders are motivated to send out fleets of buses to scoop up the young while parents are slugabed, any talk of the Sunday school being in trouble would not be comprehensible.

Family relationships were growing more troubled and although I had a good job working in Silicon Valley, I was unhappy.

I think of Bill, a member of the youth group, who came to tell of the trouble his family had been having with an alcoholic uncle who, though abstinent in AA, continued to be difficult to live with.

After the death of Edmund McIlhenny in 1890, the family business was turned over to his son John, who immediately inherited trouble in the form of a crop failure.

Usually during Thanksgiving and Christmas I have to bake 3 pecan pies... one for each of my brothers to take home and then one for our actual family meal and if I don't have pecan pie on the dessert menu... I'm getting in trouble, ha!

It was delicious and my family is in big trouble because this is the new favorite candy.

Love the fresh corn recipe... just visiting family in slovakia and its heaps of fresh corn at the markets... next week recipe it is:) Thanks again Heidi... Already made quite a few recipes for my family and friends while im overhere, having troubles to find some ingredients but always figure it out somehow and they love it... all of them know abput your books and blog now:) yay!

Hi Christine I saw your beautiful art of making Bread and it is just a piece of art it looks so yummy My mother loves this bread today we found out She has a tumor inside her uterus and we are all Devistated it so happened she loves this bread I want to make it for her but your recipe is not in Cups nor teaspoons / tablespoons if it is not to much To ask you can you please share and translate it Into cups it will be very much appreciated if it is to much Trouble I do understand have happy holidays to your Family and you.

If you think it was bad last night wait for the Tottenham game, I was speaking to a mate of mine and he said a lot of the old faces are already planning to come and cause trouble inside and outside, the trouble is all the old faces and some new ones know this Stadium is perfect for hooliganism, even if they get banned it might be one or two last hurrahs, I expect every game we are allowed to play this season will have similar stories and our name will be dragged through the mud, everyone that is involved in it if found guilty by a court should be named and shamed publically so that there families and employers can judge them also.

Her background shines through in her blog, and it's a lovely read for all kinds of family fun ideas and advice on dealing with the troubles that come with raising a family!

Combine all of that with changes in schools, new peer groups, or family troubles, and you quickly get a pile - up of stressors that can be overwhelming.