Sentences with phrase «fewer life peers»

The Liberal Democrats currently have 101 peers but only eight MPs, while the Conservative Party, which has an overall majority in the Commons, has has fewer life peers than the Labour Party.

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A substantial body of research now indicates that high levels of involvement by fathers in two parent families are associated with a range of desirable outcomes in children and young people, including: better peer relationships; fewer behaviour problems; lower criminality and substance abuse; higher educational / occupational mobility, relative to that of parents; capacity for empathy; non-traditional attitudes to earning and childcare; more satisfying adult sexual partnerships; and higher self - esteem and life - satisfaction (for reviews see Flouri 2005; Pleck and Masciadrelli 2004).

His theory is that in a low - income, high - crime neighborhood, if you offer social and educational supports to just a few of the kids who live there, their participation will always seem a bit oddball, and they won't have much of an effect on their peers.

Depression in teens can be caused by different factors: a tragic event in the teen's life, a genetic predisposition to depression, or social out - casting by the teen's peers to name a few.

By 16, children receiving free school meals achieve 1.7 grades lower at GCSE than their wealthier peers.6 Leaving school with fewer qualifications translates into lower earnings over the course of a working life.

During the first four years of life, a child from a lower - income household hears roughly 30 million fewer words, less than a third, than her more affluent peers.

I'm not a pediatrician and don't follow the pediatric research, but available peer - reviewed evidence that I've seen shows that while mother's milk is critical for the first few years of life, after that a varied plant based diet provides optimal nutrition for a growing child.

Collaborating with eLearning team members, offering live training events, and enabling online learners to reach out to their peers are just a few of the many uses for web conferencing software.

In one, researchers examined how SEL intervention programs (such as social skills training, parent training with home visits, peer coaching, reading tutoring, and classroom social - emotional curricula) for kindergarten students impacted their adult lives, and found that these programs led to 10 % (59 % vs. 69 % for the control group) fewer psychological, behavioral, or substance abuse problems at the age of 25 (Dodge et al., 2014).

Access to their international peers is an opportunity to learn about other cultures and ways of life, and to begin to think globally, yet few students have the chance to do so.

Many studies show that children who live with pets exercise more, have higher self - esteem, and have fewer respiratory infections than their pet - free peers.

This weekend I and a few of my fellow game journalist peers decided to show solidarity with the brave and beautiful protesters from the «March For Our Lives» event by logging onto Overwatch and staging our own little in - game protest.

Evans had few peers in his capacity to disclose social relations through images and to coax the slow violence of American life into visibility.

Few of the Lords are heritary peers, most having been appointed by the Prime Minister of the day, and serve for life, rather like the US Supreme Court.

Parkland survivor and March For Our Lives organizer David Hogg took hold of the national spotlight with a handful of his peers just a few short weeks ago.

Early maladaptive schemas may result from a frustration of these basic needs by interaction between the child's innate temperament and dysfunctional experiences with parents, siblings, and peers during the first few years of life [9][10].

Compared to their peers from intact homes, they have fewer rights, privileges and opportunities for social relationships and activities which could enrich their lives.

Adolescents who report positive sibling relationships have better peer relationships and fewer depressive symptoms later in life.

«A study using a nationally representative sample of 1,600 10 - 13 year olds found that children who shared important ideas with their fathers and who perceived the amount of time they spent with their fathers as excellent had fewer behavior problems and lived in more cognitively stimulating homes than their peers who did not share important ideas or view the amount of time they spent with their fathers as excellent.

Youth in PROSPER communities can expect to have better life skills and positive peer relationships, and fewer negative behavioral outcomes including:

As a part of this development, their friends and peers will become a significant part of your teenager's life for the next few years.