For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic
families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.
Not exact matches
If
families that wanted to wait a longer period between births or
have fewer children had access to the right tools, two things
would happen.
This will be a new monthly category here as I
've decided to donate $ 25 a month to start off to
Child Fund International, a great charity that my
family has been donating to for quite a while and I
've donated randomly to over the last
few years.
This will be a new monthly category here as I
've decided to donate $ 25 a month to start off to
Child Fund International, a great charity that my
family has been donating to for quite a while and I
've donated to randomly over the last
few years.
Today, very
few such
families have access to regulated, high - quality and affordable
child care.
No
child left behind — I know quite a
few families that
have have had to use that law to force the schools to teach their
children.
In sum, although a
few apologists such as Stephanie Coontz still insist otherwise, just about everyone else in possession of the evidence acknowledges that the sexual revolution
has weakened
family ties, and that
family ties (the presence of a biologically related mother and father in the home)
have turned out to be important indicators of
child well - being — and more, that the broken home is not just a problem for individuals but also for society.
Thus many Catholics complain about the dearth of priests, all the while ignoring their own responsibility for that outcome — the fact that
few have children in numbers large enough to send one son to the priesthood while the others marry and carry on the
family name.
In the same book Pope John Paul wrote that «a determination on the part of husband and wife to
have as
few children as possible, to make their own lives easy, is bound to inflict moral damage both on their
family and on society at large.»
I'll do the drag racing for you and when I get there., well that's when I'll
have a drink or two and may be a dab or two and may be a
few old fassioned joints will be passed around after the
family affairs are done and all the
children have gone into sugar cookie, new toy and gift wrap induced sweet dream filled blissfull sleep.
Everyone
has personal favorites, and I
would like to close with a
few of the books I
have enjoyed with my
children: Noel Streatfield's books about
families with dancing
children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she
had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of
family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.
Gender and
Family in the Ivory Tower, Mary Ann Mason reports that while women in so - called «fast - track professions»
have fewer children than does the average American woman, female faculty are almost half as likely as female physicians and slightly less likely than female lawyers to
have a
child at all, even though academia offers far more flexible hours than the average law firm or hospital.
Another theory is that, as people became less religious, they
would abandon the natural
family and
have fewer children.
It is a matter of
families — even Mass - attending Catholic
families —
having fewer children.
We
have a
few non-white
families, and some
families with non-white
children, but it feels like there's an invisible barrier to becoming more racially diverse.
Still, Rabbi Avi Shafran, director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America, the largest organization of Haredi Jews in the United States, sees the future differently: «There will be an economic crunch, and there already are many two - income
families in the community, but no Haredi Jew is starving, or
having fewer children because of economic restraints....
This is a great way to bring
children into the spirit of the Advent season through biblical stories and images, and Ann Voskamp
has quite a
few resources for doing this well: The Greatest Gift: Unwrapping the Full Love Story of Christmas, Unwrapping the Greatest Gift: A
Family Celebration of Christmas, and a whole Web site full of FREE printable ornaments, coloring pages, cards, gift tags, etc..
Affirmative action programs are being challenged; attitudes toward immigration
have taken a restrictionist turn; and many white
families seek to place their
children in schools with
few children of color.
Other witnesses argued that, inasmuch as almost 25,000 married couples in France
have been approved but wait an average of five years to be able to adopt because
fewer than 5,000 adoptions take place each year, it is possible to provide every adoptable
child with a father and a mother who will offer him or her the best chance of integrating into a new
family.
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.
In the last
few years my
family has become vegetarian out of choice, and I
have started to re-visit a lot of the recipes I used to cook as a
child.
IRI GIRA Foodservice believes that increasingly fluid
families — in particular
fewer families with
children and more single parent or single occupant homes — and more people working away from home
has led to greater demand for convenient meal solutions.
The word from the England camp was that he was leaning towards staying at the King Power, but there are definitely other aspects that the 29 year old will be considering as well, as in if he
would want to spend more time away from his
family only a
few months after getting married, or even the upheaval of moving his new wife and teenage
children away to a new life in London.
It is so great to see
families taking their
children on this trip, i
have never before seen
family or photos of
children doing this trek — i always
had it in my mind that it was a super strenuous trek — will email this link to my sister whose only
child has just turned one a
few months back
Even though I
've written a book about parenting, the process of building a happy
family continues to evolve, and after raising four
children over a period of thirty - six years, there are a
few things that stand out as lessons learned.
One of the best resources for how to parent for a secure attachment in the first
few years of life is the new book Raising A Secure
Child by Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell, all therapists who
have worked with many different kinds of
families for decades.
Their perspectives on fatherhood * Nearly 50 % of the conceptions were described as a complete surprise, and only three were planned * Nearly two - fifths (37 %) of the prospective fathers
had had previous
children; most still
had some contact with the
children but only two were still living with them and were engaged as actively involved fathers * Two - thirds (65 %) described themselves as
having a low or medium sense of reality about their impending fatherhood * Three - quarters were expecting the baby to
have a noticeable impact on their way of life * Three - quarters were motivated to learn more about pregnancy and fatherhood, with partners,
family and friends seen as the most important source of information * Very
few thought about health professionals as a potential source of support and advice, and some
would have liked to
have talked to one but felt awkward about it.
Over the past
few months there
has been no shortage of articles and blog posts about flying with
children, and promoting the idea of
child - free flights, or the notion of
family sections on planes.
As a
child I visited Walt Disney World a
few times with my
family, and though Magic Kingdom
has had nightly fireworks since it opened in 1976, we
would never stay to watch them.
In 2010, a
few years after her passing, friends and
family of Dianne Engelhardt determined that the best way to honor Dianne
would be to establish a permanent fund at Wachusett Meadow that
would further work that touched her heart and inspired her to take action: teaching
children about nature.
Exclusively pumping is a perfectly adequate feeding choice for your
child, albeit one that does
have a
few extra steps (and parts to wash), but one that works for many
families, because #FedIsBest.
To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem
Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first fe
Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged
families and students,» so that when those
children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first fe
children arrive in middle school, they won't
have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first
few years.
If you still want to
have a
family bed, there are a
few ways you can prevent your
child from falling out of bed, or at least make it less traumatic if they do.
In a
few instances,
child protective services
have become involved in
families where free - range parenting seems to be negligent.
Many
families have their own ways that older help with younger
children and it really depends on what is needed to keep the homeschool scheduled time in place with as
few of distractions as possible.
A study of military
families, in which co-sleeping is common because fathers (and, nowadays, mothers) are often away from home for extended periods, found that
children who
had coslept as babies received higher evaluations of their comportment in school and exhibited
fewer psychiatric problems.
Many studies suggest that
children raised in a two - parent
family have a higher standard of living and
fewer behavioral and emotional problems.
As my
children got older and more comfortable with being without me, we started
having playdate childcare trades with a
few families we knew from our API group.
Additionally, blended
families sometimes
have fewer financial resources for each
child's extracurricular activities or for
family outings because of the increased
family size or financial support going to an ex-spouse.
The
children who fared the worst were those who
had poor attachments (
had fewer feelings of trust) and / or who were taken out of their communities right after the traumatic event, i.e. if they
had to evacuate and were separated from their
family and community.
Very
few children want their parents to be divorced, but kids who
have to live with the disappointment of growing up in separate
families do best when they can say that their Mom and Dad spared them years of bickering, confrontations and immature behavior.
We are still in the adoption waiting period but one thing we
have really come to understand is that our decision to adopt will literally last at least a
few lifetimes — our
child's lifetime, our lifetime and the birth
families lifetime.
A very
few home daycares
have been accredited by the National Association of
Family Child Care; if you find one, consider yourself very lucky.
Whileparticipation inseveral home visiting programs is effective at improving
children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes (e.g., Early Head Start, The Nurse
Family Partnership and The Infant Health and Developmental program),
few home visiting programs
have been able to significantly improve pregnancy outcomes and reductions in
child maltreatment
have been found for some models, but not for others.
Research demonstrates that NFP and PAT also
have negative effects, such as program
families having fewer appropriate play materials in the home than the comparison group
families, using harsher discipline techniques and being less accepting of the
child's behaviour.
Studies of the Nurse
Family Partnership model followed
children to 6 years and found significant program effects on language and cognitive functioning as well as
fewer behaviour problems in a randomized controlled trial study.24 In addition, more recent evaluations of Healthy
Families America
have shown small, but favourable effects on young
children's development.25, 26
There are also a
few families who discover the benefits of home schooling while their
children are in school, and just decide to switch to home schooling, even though their
children are not
having a serious problem in school.
Consequently,
few people experience divorce positively, but the one
child - one parent may
have an easier transition to normalcy than one parent
families with many
children, due to mother and
child retaining more resources.»
«People are
having smaller
families and more
children are growing up with
fewer siblings,» says Donna Bobbitt - Zeher, a sociologist at Ohio State University in Columbus.
At Vitafamiliae, she shares stories of life with seven
children, and her recent How We Do series
has encouraged and inspired more than a
few parents in the ways of managing the chaos of
family life.