Sentences with phrase «family characteristics like»

The author adds, «School practices to encourage parents to participate in their children's education are more important than family characteristics like parental education, family size, marital status, socioeconomic level, or student grade level in determining whether parents get involved.»

Not exact matches

We like to think also that our ancestors had harmonious and happy families, and that the violence characteristic of contemporary families didn't exist.

Parish self - understanding, like that of a family, depends upon its perception of itself in a particular time and form, with a memory of its past and the capacity for an open yet characteristic future.

Since this unconditioned love is impossible of practice in a world where unredeemed sinfulness must be considered the general characteristic, common civil society and its individual members as well as institutions like the family, the economic order, nationality and the State necessary for the preservation of humanity are to be ordered according to the Moral Law inherent in their nature.

You also need to know which characteristics are very dominant in your family and your husband's family to give you an idea of what your baby will look like.

«The study highlighted some really striking similarities in characteristics like tooth and jaw structure and body shape between Australian freshwater grunters and several other marine fish families when they share feeding habits,» said Dr Davis.

The result — the first complete structure of a virus in the flavivirus family — reveals a layered, soccer - ball - like shape lacking the spiky projections characteristic of many human viruses, the researchers report in the 8 March issue of Cell.

Romanesco is also from the brassica family so it has detoxifying characteristics like sulfur - containing compounds and diindolmethane (DIM).

There's evidence to suggest that people who grow up in unstable families where issues like addiction, abuse, traumatic experiences, and neglect are more likely to develop codependent characteristics.

The lifestyles of Gale, Evelle and Smalls are like H.I's repressed anxieties and desires made flesh, while Dot (Frances McDormand) and Glen (Sam McMurray), an obnoxious couple who seem to have raised the kids from hell, appear to signify H.I.'s fear of family life, displaying crude characteristics of the worst type of parents.

These students are likely to be similar in terms of family background, previous educational experiences, and personal characteristics such as motivation and the like.

However, researchers generally agree that up to two - thirds of the variation in student achievement is explainable by individual student characteristics like family background and such variables.

This breed shares his temperament and main characteristics with the Mountain Cur, but visually he looks more like your average family dog.

Much like the Neapolitan mastiff this breed has the typical physical characteristics of the mastiff family.

Before you decide on a dog breed, make sure that the breed's characteristics match what you're looking for and will blend smoothly into your family's lifestyle like sugar in milk.

While many find this characteristic less than charming, keep in mind that asking a dog to stop barking is like asking a family member to stop talking.

At the same time, what are now arid lands in Idaho and Oregon supported forests of warm - temperate trees like those in the mahogany family, presently characteristic of central and South America, and in the deserts of Nevada, forests were composed of trees that now are native to the southeastern United States and eastern Asia, for instance, maple, alder, ash, yellowwood, birch, beech, and poplars (Graham, 1999).

Separately, the National Fair Housing Alliance and other groups charged Facebook in a suit with allowing advertisers to exclude protected groups on characteristics like gender, family makeup and race.

The suit, filed in federal court by the National Fair Housing Alliance and other groups, alleges Facebook allows advertisers to exclude protected groups by characteristics like gender and family makeup.

24/7 Dad ® focuses on key fathering characteristics like masculinity, discipline, and work - family balance — and helps men evaluate their parenting skills.

«While deciding whether to move is a personal choice, understanding how certain characteristics like size, location, or number of beds and baths, can impact a home's price can be hugely important when determining if a particular home is the right fit for you and your family,» says Dr. Svenja Gudell, chief economist at Zillow.