Sentences with phrase «families need both parents»

Some families need both parents working to provide enough stable income.

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This is an issue for families and if we want mothers and fathers to be equal parents in the households, we need to start out equal.

People who need help with aging parents or disabled family members save money over using traditional agencies, and health care professionals can make more money with no middleman involved.

A special needs trust lets parents, other family members and other interested parties contribute funds for the benefit of a disabled person, while also enabling him or her to still receive means - tested benefits such as Medicaid and Security Supplemental Income (SSI).

From parents - only gifts to presents the whole family can enjoy, there's something here to satisfy every budget, taste, and new - parent need.

Though the number of companies expanding their paid parental leave benefits is rising, Sandberg acknowledged that it's less common for employees to get paid time off to care for sick loved ones, saying that the US needs public policies «that make it easier for people to care for their children and aging parents and for families to mourn and heal after loss.»

«These findings show that small businesses understand the importance of family friendly workplaces that afford working parents the flexibility they need to work and raise a family,» says Loren Harris, director of family economic security at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, in reference to the survey results.

«A significant expansion of the Child Tax Credit will help parents have more money at a time in their lives when they need it the most and give them the flexibility to make the best choices regarding their families» care,» Ivanka said in a statement late last month.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- In a landmark ruling for non-traditional families in New York, the state's highest court on Tuesday held a person need not have a biological or adoptive relationship with a child to be considered a parent.

«Although earning slightly more than their parents did in the 1980s, millennials need to pay more to get their foot in the housing door,» he said, adding that the average house price in 2011 was ten times the median salary of a young family.

By loudly owning her choices, Sandberg makes it a little safer for the rest of us to declare that parents working late into the night is killer on families (Mashable points to research «that children are healthier, happier and better performing students when they eat with their families») and on personal productivity and health, making it a bit easier for those of us with less lofty positions to take back our schedules and admit that we need to work saner hours.

Work / family conflict: Whether it be the need to take an aging parent to the doctor or wanting to be on the school field trip, work / family conflict creates stress.

There's the fact that the tax giveaway stands to exclude single parent families that need the most help.

Tweens don't sign up for a Facebook account and don't need a phone number, but can communicate with other Messenger and Messenger Kids users parents sign - off on, so younger siblings don't get left out of the family group chat.

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Natacha also offers free parenting classes in all communities, in order to give families the tools they need to raise happy, kind, independent children.

Launched to coincide with back to school, Kidspot Cares seeks to arm parents with the tools, support and advice they need to help their families combat and ultimately prevent bullying.

In January, Esquimalt passed a resolution to draft a living wage document after its community social planning council calculated that a family with two children and two full - time working parents in the Capital Regional District needs to earn $ 17.30 per hour just to pay for the basics.

I have no doubt he is being cared for - hopefully by family and in his own home, but perhaps by someone well - paid to see to his needs, but is it really emotionally healthy for parents to be leaving a 4 year old behind for so long?

At the heart of To Empower People is the contention that those most immediately affected by the decision (notably parents and families) are in the best position to decide which institutions will best serve their needs - in education, health care, housing, and other areas.

Before getting a job, leaving your parents, building a career or starting a family, your deepest need no matter your age is to turn from sin, trust in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, and build your lifestyle around His honor.

Because there are blended families, group families, and single - parent families — all of them constituted by people whose needs the churches aim to serve — one may become increasingly reluctant to hold up an ideal.

Parents and families need to be re-educated in Catholic family prayer and tradition, and in how to invite Christ into every aspect of their lives through prayer, penance and sacrifice — there is much to do.

Conversely, a social evil, such as the decline of the two - parent American family, need not be the cause of all the world's ills, such as the bubble in the housing market.

Furthermore, the idea that I am just an individual, owing little or nothing to anyone, that I need to be autonomous, seems absurd when we consider our own personal origins: we each owe our conception and birth to a mother and a father; our whole lives involve a series ofinterlocking relationships with parents, family, friends, teachers, society and so on.

Lee also said families needed to face up to «uncomfortable» truths about the demands of looking after elderly parents or grandparents, rather than expecting the state to care for them.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

After an initial conference with the parents to explain the need for family sessions and gain their cooperation, subsequent sessions include the entire family.

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

Dr Bex Lewis, who is a christian and author of, «Raising children in a digital age,» welcomed the survey's results and told Premier that parents need to look at their behaviour to better understand how it impacts their family.

Parents need help in adjusting relationships and family rules as children grow older so they can experience the freedom and the responsibility they need in order to grow up.4 In some congregations, this kind of learning and support occurs in parent - education groups.5

It is important to the life of a congregation that parents learn the relational skills needed for good communication and respect among members of a family.

The foregoing principles of parent - child relationships — concern by the parents for the needs of the child and the obligation of the child to obey the parents, within the context of intelligent and benevolent authority — are the foundation for the right kind of education not only in homes but also in schools, which are established to aid and complete the family in its educative task.

Parents need the church to take the initiative in helping them to be self - conscious about the way Christian values and attitudes are related to family relationships.

For some, such community and family support may be enough, said Giambalvo, suggesting that one way parents can support grieving children is to let them know that it is okay to talk with them about their sibling, how they are feeling, and what they need.

On the one hand, they affirm all the research that shows the greater benefits to children of intact, heterosexual parenting, and they take a particularly strong stand on the need to reconnect fathers to families for the sake of both men's and children's welfare.

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

Whether it's around parenting or my marriage, my relationships in my extended family and friendships, the care and daily running of our home and finances, our church, our faith, our city, our country and our world, I feel overwhelmed sometimes by all of the things that I should be doing or need to be doing.

Yet not too many of us think that we need to throw our children to popular culture willy - nilly, I can't think of anyone who denies the importance of a stable and loving family for a child, anyone who thinks that by creating a strong community we are abdicating our roles as parents, not at all.

The charity currently recruits volunteers in three areas - host families who are able to look after a child for anywhere between a few days to a few weeks, family friends to befriend and mentor parents through difficult times and resource friends to supply a range of goods and services depending on what the individual family needs.

In addition to its broad target — reaching the entire congregation with a message that will help them understand alcoholism — the church has a number of more limited and strategic target groups: teen - agers and pre-teens who are making or are about to make decisions about alcohol; parents who are searching for ways to prepare their children to cope constructively with alcohol and to avoid alcoholism; alcoholics and their families who need help but are afraid to come out of hiding (see Chapter 8).

«We've doubled free childcare to help parents into work, and continue to spend over # 90 billion a year on support for those who need it, including those who are bringing up a family or on a low income.»

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

Expressive individualism, for example, causes parents and children to focus on their own needs instead of those of other family members.

But as parents in the family, my wife and I (actually, my wife more than I) knew what our daughters need better than they did.

He said that members and parents would be able to choose a local unit that best met the needs of their families.

If he gets, most of the time, loving response to his needs, he can take also the impatience at his dependence that comes when the mother is tired, the angry words between his parents when their own needs are not being met, the conflict that is inevitable in any family.

French law already has the resources to address the needs of existing recomposed families, including «families» led by homosexual «parents.»

For young men and women who grow up in healthy families, this need is nurtured through the loving words of our parents, through their affectionate touch, through their gentle presence, through their awareness and deliberate fulfillment of our emotional needs.