Sentences with phrase «family in a bad neighborhood»

And it's a story that you hear every once in awhile, of one kid from a really poor family in a bad neighborhood succeeding.

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Already a national hero, he moved his family into one of Chicago's worst neighborhoods to walk with poor people in their struggle.

Also, the cruise ship is a safe and family friendly environment and you won't have to worry about staying in a hotel in a bad neighborhood.

Isreal Jean Holland is a Black American Jewish woman from a bad neighborhood in Southeast DC who is part of the first generation of Black American women in her family to nurse and she wants to empower black women to take back their bodies and nurse their young regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances.

Though I wrote these words eight years ago, I don't think the concerns of sports moms have changed all that much and that what I said then largely still hold true today, although I think, if I were to update the list of concerns, I would probably add two more: fifth, that mothers want a more inclusive youth sports experience that is affordable to all families, regardless of socio - economic status or whether they live in a wealthy suburb or an economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhood, and sixth, that mothers want a better balance between sports and family life (a problem I explored in the book and on these pages, but that, if anything, has gotten worse, not better, in the last eight years).

That only makes things worse in the neighborhood, though it's a totally understandable choice for any individual family.

«If you live in a poor Chicago neighborhood, bad things are more likely to happen to you,» said sociologist Katherine King, a visiting assistant professor of community and family medicine at Duke.

Hillary Swank plays a school teacher in a bad neighborhood, who manages to become a second family and create a special kind of bond - trust, love and emotion - with her students in spite of all hardships.

Mandy Milkovich, Mickey's sister, is from the only family in the neighborhood worse off than the Gallaghers.

In episode 206, Michael maneuvers for power as he and Kath prepare for an addition to the family; Tommy tries to clean up a bad neighborhood; Eileen gains perspective from the wives of other local politicians; Rose struggles with the reality of aging.

Cornbread is a good kid in a bad neighborhood and he sees basketball as his family's ticket out of poverty.

Recent research by MIT economist David Autor and colleagues generates quasi-experimental estimates of family background by simultaneously accounting for the impact of neighborhood environment and school quality to investigate why boys fare worse than girls in disadvantaged families.

It is a car that gives you new feelings every time you get behind the wheel, a car that offers the best driving pleasure; a bad boy that makes people turn their heads every time you are in the neighborhood, but in the same time a car that is capable of offering enough space and security for your entire family.

At this point you will have to make an evaluation as to whether or not this family will follow instructions, or will you have an unhappy puppy returned to you in a month or two because no one wants to assume the responsibility or, much worse, will you hear that the puppy was allowed to roam the neighborhood and has been hit by a car?

Stress factors that are more likely to be present and to affect single mothers than happily married mothers include: financial problems, living in a bad neighborhood, juggling increased outside employment and childcare demands, post-break-up domestic violence and harassment, divorce and custody litigation, and interference with family and household routines by nonresident parents and other third parties (i.e. responsibility without decision - making authority).

These were small single family 2bed / 1bath homes in pretty bad neighborhoods.