Sentences with phrase «fathers of school aged children»

Mothers and fathers of school aged children have to handle the morning routine: getting the kids to school, meeting with teachers, and driving the kids to after - school activities, all on their own.

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The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11, children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth

Bestselling author, journalist, and father - of - two Paul Tough has devoted his career to answering the question of why some children succeed — and how educators, parents, and school communities can better serve struggling kids of all ages, from pre-K classes to high school seniors.

William Sears, one of America's most renowned pediatricians, is the father of 8 children, ages 15 to 40 years, author of over 40 books on childcare, and Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.

These included fathers» age in years, race and ethnicity, household poverty level (as a percentage of the federal poverty level), educational level (less than high school, high school or equivalent, some college or more), employment status (reporting regular work in the last week), and marital status with the child's mother.

«We can and will overcome these terrible circumstances, but only when we take anger and hate out of the equation and focus our energy on the future we want for our children,» said the father of a school - age daughter.

The married father of four school - age children, Wilson recently told the News that he continues to wrestle with the idea of being away from his family during the campaign and his first year in office if he wins.

The research, «The association of mothers» and fathers» insomnia symptoms with school - aged children's sleep assessed by parent report and in - home sleep - electroencephalography», is published in Sleep Medicine.

The children of mothers and fathers who used harsh verbal discipline when they were 13 suffered more depressive symptoms between ages 13 and 14 than their peers who weren't disciplined in this way; they were also more likely to have conduct problems such as misbehaving at school, lying to parents, stealing, or fighting.

It's also that some have educated parents, including both a mother and a father in the home, who possess the social capital as well as the resources of time and money to ensure that their children are prepared for school by the time they reach age four or five.

Mark is a father of two school - aged children who attend Meriden Public Schools.

«School - aged children in both two - parent and single - parent families are more likely to get mostly A's, to enjoy school, and to participate in extracurricular activities and are less likely to have ever repeated a grade and to have ever been suspended or expelled if their fathers or mothers have high as opposed to low levels of involvement in their schools.&School - aged children in both two - parent and single - parent families are more likely to get mostly A's, to enjoy school, and to participate in extracurricular activities and are less likely to have ever repeated a grade and to have ever been suspended or expelled if their fathers or mothers have high as opposed to low levels of involvement in their schools.&school, and to participate in extracurricular activities and are less likely to have ever repeated a grade and to have ever been suspended or expelled if their fathers or mothers have high as opposed to low levels of involvement in their schools.»

Rather worryingly, the latest NHS health survey also found that nine in 10 mothers and eight in 10 fathers of an overweight child described them as being about the right weight, and excluding school - based activities, 22 % of children aged five to 15 met the physical activity guidelines of being at least moderately active for at least 60 minutes every day.

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A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).

The distribution of domestic labor among mothers, fathers, and school - age children in 153 families was examined with attention to three conditions that might facilitate or constrain the distribution of tasks: familial earner status, child gender, and «social time» (defined here as the distinction between weekdays and weekends).

The Healthy Fathering Collaborative of Greater Cleveland (HFC) is a network of public and private agencies that aims to provide education, services, and support directly to fathers throughout the lifespan of fatherhood, from pre-conception and pregnancy to childbirth, early childhood, and parenting school - age children.85 Member agencies provide four types of services: programs that help fathers address barriers that impact their involvement with their children; supportive services for fathers; fatherhood development programs; and father - child social / recreational event programs.86

FAMILY LAW — CHILDREN — Best interests — Where both parents seek sole parental responsibility and for the child to live with them — Where the respondent mother believes the child would settle down and accept the arrangement if the court ordered for the child to spend no time with applicant father — Where the court has a statutory mandate to make parenting orders with the child's best interests as the paramount concern — Where there is little doubt that the child would benefit from having a meaningful relationship with both parents — Where the child's clear views that he does not want to spend time with the respondent mother should be given significant weight in the circumstances — Where the child is of an age, maturity and intelligence to have principally formed his own rationally based views — Where the court is satisfied that it is in the child's best interests for the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility to be rebutted — Where the respondent father is to have sole parental responsibility and the child is to live with him — Where the applicant mother is permitted to attend certain school and sporting events of the child — Where the child should be able to instigate contact with the respondent mother as he considers appropriate to his needs and circumstances — Where the orders made are least likely to lead to the institution of further proceedings in relation to the child — Where the child is to have the outcome of these proceedings, the effect of the orders and the reasons for judgment explained to him by an expert as soon as reasonably practical.

Target group: This program is specifically designed for fathers of primary school - aged children at the targeted primary schools.

But like an inverse correlation, Father One received a recommendation for increased or joint custody (notwithstanding living 60 miles away from a school - age child), rather than the sole custody recommended by the evaluator for the Fathers who were accused of more serious abuse!

K. Alison Clarke - Stewart and Craig Haywood: «Advantages of Father Custody and Contact For the Psychological Wellbeing of School - Age Children» (1996), 17 Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 239.

The program is available to any parent, including fathers, relatives as caregivers, and foster and adoptive parents, who has a child under the age of three and lives within a participating school district.

This webinar focused on the importance of father involvement and strategies that fatherhood programs can use to support father engagement with young infants, school age children, and teenagers.

In the United States, only 39 % of teen fathers received high school certification by age 20 compared with 86 % of male teens who did not father a child.

Additional risk factors for poor father - child relationships identified during the pre-school and school - age years include: adverse family events; weak home organisation; a less supportive family ethos and low levels of positive parenting.

Unfortunately, GUS has not collected information on children's relationships with non-resident fathers at the age 10 interview, although this is planned for the next round of data collection when children are in their first year of secondary school.

In order to examine the relationships between parenting styles and personality traits over generations, a cross-sectional questionnaire study was conducted for fathers and mothers of school - age children of grades 5 — 9.

This study, from a sample of ∼ 22 000 children and their mothers and fathers representative of the entire US population, demonstrates that living with fathers with depressive symptoms and other mental health problems is independently associated with increased rates of emotional or behavioral problems among school - aged children and adolescents.

A community sample of 51 mother - father dyads with a school - age child rated marital functioning, parental psychological symptoms, and children's adjustment problems.

The sample consisted of 217 fathers of school - age children ranging in age from 6 to 12 years.

(I) Factors related to socioeconomic status: mother's (< 25, 25 — 29, 30 — 34, 35 +) and father's (< 30, 30 — 34, 35 +) age in years at birth of child; mother's and father's education at 9 months (National Vocational Qualification equivalent level 4 — 5 = university degree or equivalent, 3 = A levels or equivalent, 2 = grade C or higher in at least 4 General Certificate of Secondary Education qualifications at the end of compulsory schooling at age 16, 0 — 1 = less than this); occupational socioeconomic status at exposure, based on the last - known job of father or mother, whichever was higher (3 - class National Statistics Socio - economic Classification 1 = managerial / administrative / professional, 2 = intermediate, 3 = routine / manual); duration of breast - feeding (never, < 4 months, 4 + months); number of siblings of child in household at 9 months (none, 1, 2 +).

A sample of 80 children and their parents (fathers and mothers), selected from an initial screening of 905 school - aged children, participated in this study.