Sentences with phrase «few positive role models»

I had no connections, no education, few positive role models, and making matters worse, my self - esteem had been crushed through years of secreted childhood bullying and abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

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Of course, we pay lip service to the concept, complaining about how few positive Christian role models there are on TV or in the media.
The head at Cooper Lane was concerned that with only one male teacher out of a staff of 24, that there were few positive male role models for pupils.
Although it's been a few years since she breastfed her own babies, because she has had breast implants, many mothers look to her as a positive breastfeeding role model due to the fact that she is proof that implants do not necessarily mean breast feeding is impossible.
As evidence mounts that boys suffer when there are few positive male role models in society and schools, only one of every 10 people entering B.C.'s teaching profession is a man.
And data from communities and countries that sterilize community dogs show the same results: a decline in the number of dog bites, with «officials point [ing] to a variety of factors: the obvious effect of sterilization on dog behavior, including behaviors associated with mating, reduced numbers of dogs and reduced home range of individual dogs resulting in fewer chance encounters with humans, an increased respect and thus kinder treatment towards dogs due to the positive role model of rescuers, and the impact of community education by rescuers that often accompanies these efforts.
Senior lawyers in Australia complain that the younger ones do not want to work as hard as they should, and young lawyers complain that they receive insufficient training and mentoring from partners and see few partners who are positive role models.
In a 2003 issue of the Journal of Family Psychology, a study conducted by Sanford Braver and colleagues found that parent relocation after a divorce was linked to more general stress and fewer reports of the relocated parent being seen as a positive role model.
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