Sentences with phrase «family structures seemed»

They were concerned for economic survival, of course, but beyond that participation in family structures seemed more important to them than «improving» their condition.

Not exact matches

It seems to me that if I'm dealing with friends and family, and am not going to do a 2nd round of financing, it'd be nice to stay with the LLC structure and therefore still have liability protection, while avoiding corporate income tax.

Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at conception, or over the proper structure of the family.

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.»

In contrast, much of what is said in sermons and written in Christian literature seems designed to maintain a particular structure of the family rather than strengthen people's ability to function in the families they have.

But it does seem to be the case that they can not increase without a re-stabilizing of a family structure that enlists the support of men, who receive in return the respect and recognition that comes with, for lack of a better term, patriarchy.

So many families are structured this way that when you encounter a church or congregation structured this way it just seems normal.

They seem already to have learned how to make decisions with their wives, and in an age when the dual - income family is the norm, a return to the old patriarchal structure seems impossible.

Ok, firstly, the Emirates is the least intimidating ground in the premier league, in part due to its architectural structure that seems incredibly family friendly (not inherently a bad thing), but it doesn't give you the feeling of being in a particularly intimidating atmosphere like the westfalenstadion in dortmund for example.

Our culture does not support or promote communal living or extended family living... many other cultures do... but many cultures also simply want people to do as they are told and from the outside may seem pretty rigid in their structure and follow a community norm.

That a wide range of family structures exists requiring a wide range of care strategies seems not to have occurred to him.

Mr. Glebe didn't seem to understand that the school's policy has nothing to do with religion or races or ethnicities, but rather the structure of families and those that don't have a Mom or Dad to celebrate at home.

Despite the lack of language, the donor - conceived authors do not seem confused or maladjusted by the structure of their families.

I'd also suggest that the Right has been vindicated on the importance of family structure, the power of incarceration (a lesson we are unlearning it seems) and the folly of the $ uro.

Farr said these findings suggest that the family structure doesn't seem to matter as much as the way a family functions.

The child - care proposals now pending before the Congress, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett told lawmakers last week, «seem, however unintentionally, to put families to one side,» and to «be more concerned with creating new structures than with supporting the very best structures possible for our children: our families.»

From our perspective, decisions such as the one at issue here miss the fact that public education is evolving and should be driven by a commitment to meet the needs of students and families and not by deference to a bureaucratic structure that often seems better for the adults in the system than for the most vulnerable children.

The trailers seem to indicate some real character growth across the board, as well as what appears to be a rather unconventional narrative structure for a family movie like this.

The structure of your exhibition included a built - in, X-shaped partition in the middle of the space, which seems to echo the pages of an open book or even the fold - out pages of the 2006 Whitney Biennial catalog that Purtill Family Business designed.

Taking her inspiration from the paintings of Edward Hopper and the Bates family's sinister mansion from Alfred Hitchcock's 1969 film Psycho, the sculpture is fabricated from a deconstructed red barn and seems at first to be a genuine house, though it is actually a scaled - down structure made up of two propped up facades.

That it seems not to do so in many instances is not a reflection on the inappropriateness of residential treatment as a form of intervention but perhaps an indictment of our ideas about change, about families and about people's strengths and resources in the residential arena - and the way these are reflected in staffing policies and agency structure.

Analyses from FFCWS suggest that exits from cohabitation or marriage between the year - one and year - three interviews are associated with deteriorating mental health for men, but not for women, whose mental health seems to be less sensitive to family structure changes (except that women who exit from cohabitation do have larger increases in anxiety than other groups).

For some stepparents, it may seem like you are stepping into a fractured family system and trying to make it whole again, in a different shape, while some family members may still be attached to the old family structure.