Sentences with phrase «family violence in the country»

With a rate of 98 per 100,000, the Ottawa CMA recorded the lowest rate of family violence in the country.

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Families in these countries are desperate to send their children away from the killing fields of gang violence.

Most of these were children — increasingly 12 and younger and female — either fleeing violence in their home countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala or seeking family reunification.

Several children and families that have fled their homes in Myanmar to escape military - led violence are now living in refugee camps in the neighboring country of Bangladesh and require certain necessities while they await placement.

They point to her 2 - 1 margin with Latinos over Obama in the 2008 primary and the latest party platform, which calls for a path to citizenship «for law - abiding families who are here,» the end of immigration raids against children and families, due process for «those fleeing violence in Central America,» and to rescind statutory bans on immigrants who modify their status in the country.

On Wednesday, a young Syrian family fleeing violence in their native country was forced to change their resettlement plans when the governor of Indiana declared they would not be welcome in his state because of their nationality.

If our country placed more value on children and families, would we see a decline in mass violence?

(New York, NY)-- Two weeks after the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention — a non-partisan coalition of legislators from across the country — announced today that lawmakers in 30 states have introduced or are planning to introduce Extreme Risk Protection Order legislation that would empower family members and law enforcement to help prevent gun vViolence Prevention — a non-partisan coalition of legislators from across the country — announced today that lawmakers in 30 states have introduced or are planning to introduce Extreme Risk Protection Order legislation that would empower family members and law enforcement to help prevent gun violenceviolence.

In a kinder, saner country, we might even mention some of the things the right to family life has achieved, such as keeping elderly couples together when one of them is taken into care, or keeping domestic violence survivors with their children when defending them against their abuser.

Officials say thousands use the Human Rights Act, which guarantees the «right to family life», or fears about violence in the countries they left as a way of dodging deportation.

«We believe some factors contributing to the higher risk may include long - term exposure to poor living conditions and stressors in transition countries including anxiety, racism, domestic or personal violence and major life events, such as a death in the family — to name a few,» said Dr. Wanigaratne.

Stories We Tell, a doc from Toronto, unfolds as a procedural home movie, investigating the filmmaker's family secrets; and Goon, shot largely in Winnipeg and set across the country, is a viciously funny comedy about hockey violence.»

12:00 M — TCM — Ride the High Country In the 1960s, Sam Peckinpah contributed to the beginnings of the revisionist western, taking complicated heroes and violence to new levels — in Ride the High Country, Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott (who had both starred in many westerns throughout the 1930s and 1940s) play jaded cowboys hired to transport gold who get caught up in a family feud that forces them to confront their own differences and troubled pastIn the 1960s, Sam Peckinpah contributed to the beginnings of the revisionist western, taking complicated heroes and violence to new levels — in Ride the High Country, Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott (who had both starred in many westerns throughout the 1930s and 1940s) play jaded cowboys hired to transport gold who get caught up in a family feud that forces them to confront their own differences and troubled pastin Ride the High Country, Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott (who had both starred in many westerns throughout the 1930s and 1940s) play jaded cowboys hired to transport gold who get caught up in a family feud that forces them to confront their own differences and troubled pastin many westerns throughout the 1930s and 1940s) play jaded cowboys hired to transport gold who get caught up in a family feud that forces them to confront their own differences and troubled pastin a family feud that forces them to confront their own differences and troubled pasts.

Bohjalian's Secrets of Eden is set in contemporary New England and examines a family plagued by domestic violence; Lansens» The Wife's Tale follows a middle aged woman around the country as she searches for her missing husband;

The author writes in beautiful, descriptive language and, at the same time, keeps socking the reader between the eyes with the revelations that unfold in this terrible story of a brutal family murder in an outback country town - a town that seeps with anger, bitterness, violence, oppressive heat and blow - flies.

Life and family events premigration and postmigration have been found to have a profound effect on the health and well - being of immigrant children.1, 2 Risk factors include trauma, separation from parents, nonvoluntary migration, obstacles in the acculturation process, 3 and children who immigrate in their mid - or late teens.1, 4 Research also shows that parents who have experienced or witnessed violence have poorer mental health, 2,5 which is likely to affect parent — child attachment and negatively impact child development and mental health.5 Transitioning to a new country may be beneficial for both parents and children, but it may render new and unexpected constraints in the parent — child relationship (eg, children tend to acculturate to the new country faster than their parents), cause disharmony and power conflicts, 6 — 8 and, subsequently, affect the child's mental health.9

-- Founding and managing substance abuse centers for 20 years (1997 - present)-- Founding and managing HIV counseling and testing center, Hayat, in Giza Egypt (2009 - present)-- Seven years consultant in UNDP HIV / AIDS Program in The Arab States (HARPAS) including conducting training workshops and research activities in middle east and African Horn countries (2005 - 2012)-- One year experience with UNHCER in Syria (2011 - 2012)-- Two years consultant with COSV organization (Italian organization) working with Syrian refugees and Syrian civil activists in Lebanon and Turkey (2013 - 2014)-- Conducting training and supervision work with a group of psychologists and psychiatrists working with children and families living with HIV (UNICEFF Egypt 2016)-- Main consultant trainer with psychologists and social workers working with Gender Based Violence refugee children in Egypt (Terre Des Hmmes 2017)-- Three years weekly TV program on marriage and couple relations (2014 - present)-- Experience with three TV series by acting and writing (2015,2016,2017)-- Board member in the Association of Evolutionary Psychiatric and Group Work, and the Egyptian Association of Group Therapies and Processes

The Fall 2017 Health e-Bulletin highlights the ground - breaking strides in the field of domestic violence advocacy across the country to advance the health and wellness of survivors and their families.

Healing has also emerged in these countries as a significant process for empowering Indigenous communities and creating improved partnerships to address the legacy of family violence and abuse (including legacies of past government processes, such as the residential schools system in Canada).

This multisite prospective study of 682 children from four different regions of the country asked mothers and their 6 - year - old children to report on violence exposure in their families.