Sentences with phrase «fifth of children»

At 10 months of age, one - fifth of children born in Scotland between March 2010 and February 2011 had a non-resident biological parent.

Using a cut off point of 127 as recommended by Eyberg, 7 approximately one fifth of children (17.9 %, n = 193) were defined as having a behaviour problem of clinical severity on this scale.

Almost one - fifth of children in South Africa have lost a parent; many have experienced multiple losses.

Whilst finding it is possible to diagnose PTSD during initial stages of assessment and one year later, these authors also found that one fifth of children directly exposed to organised violence and persecution (e.g., through assault on parents or bomb attacks within 50 metres) were at risk for developing chronic states of PTSD.

Moreover, of the remaining 890 children (52 percent) without a prior report, 170 (19 percent) had a second report within 1 year, indicating that one - fifth of children with initial reports are coming back into contact with ACDSS within 1 year.

That share was more than twice the rate in 1980 (18 percent) and an eightfold increase from the rate in 1960 (5 percent).2 Half of the children born to unwed mothers live, at least initially, with a single mother who is not residing with the child's biological father (although about 60 percent of this group say they are romantically involved with the father), while half live with an unwed mother who is cohabiting with the child's father.3 These estimates imply that today one - fifth of all children are born into single - mother families, while another fifth are born into cohabiting - couple families.

About one - fifth of the children boycotted the tests altogether because of continued controversy over the Common Core learning standards.

For around a fifth of children in the U.S., key needs include health, food and housing.

The commission wants the government to focus future contracts for teacher training providers, including with Teach First, on «areas of greatest need» and highlighted ten areas where more than one - fifth of children were in failing schools: Blackpool, Knowsley, Northumberland, Doncaster, Reading, Stoke - on - Trent, Oldham, Bradford, Telford and Wrekin, and Central Bedfordshire.

A fifth of children don't play outside at all.

We also know that one - fifth of children experience mental illness.

A recent report into play by the APPG on A Fit & Healthy Childhood highlighted the alarming statistic that one - fifth of children will experience mental health difficulties, and research suggests that this figure is climbing.

Obesity has increased since 2014/15 with over a fifth of children in Reception and a third in Year 6 now overweight or obese.

As many as one - fifth of children feel bullied, she said, adding: «If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.»»

This came after it was reported that a fifth of children will have a mental health problem before the age of 11 *.

Alarmingly, one fifth of children do not play outside at all.

According to the NAHT, a fifth of children are developing mental health problems before age 11 and untreated issues could spiral into psychiatric problems later in life unless more is done in schools.

The city of Amsterdam has the highest rate of obesity in the Netherlands, with a fifth of its children overweight.

Eczema affects around a fifth of children in the UK.

At best, around a fifth of children still live below the poverty line before housing costs, and more than a quarter once housing costs are taken into account.

The reality that choice remains illusory for four - fifths of all children in this country and especially for the kids who need strong, comprehensive college - preparatory curricula the most (and, as Dropout Nation has documented ad nauseam, are the least likely to get it in traditional districts) is more than enough reason to adopt Common Core (alongside expanding the array of choice options that can allow for a variety of curricula choices).

Marcia Carlson and Sara McLanahan find that by age five, nearly two - fifths of children of unwed parents had no regular contact with their fathers in the past two years, while another two - fifths were seeing their father on a regular basis (the remaining one - fifth fell somewhere in between).17 Having a father who is actively involved in the child's upbringing even though he is not residing in the household could yield numerous benefits in terms of child health and development.

However, the results suggest that the use of a «selective» approach directed at manual social class families would miss two fifths of the children with problems.

Not exact matches

In speaking with analysts who have covered Michael Dell and his company for several decades, what emerges is a portrait of a founder so completely enmeshed with his business that many liken Dell (the company) to his fifth child.

The second of five children, Apostolopoulos left school after fifth grade, and later trained to become an electrician.

Children born in 1990, most of whom are now in the fifth grade, are just entering their key consumer years.

Kate, the wife of Prince William, gave birth to a boy at a hospital in London on Monday, the third child for the British royal couple and now fifth in line to the throne.

Honourable mentions to Danielle Larivee, Minister of Children's Services, and Deron Bilous, Minister of Trade and Economic Development, who placed a strong fourth and fifth in the first round of voting.

True, the money came largely from Father's father, who left a fifth of a million - dollar estate to each of his five children.

He strolled in the garden with his lovely second wife, Helena Fourment (whom he married when she was 16 and he 53), and benignly surveyed the progress of their four children (the fifth was born soon after his death, in 1640, at 63).

«Outcastes» in India have been known by different names such as: «Harijan,» meaning children of Han (God) given by Gandhi; «Avarrias» meaning casteless; «Panchamas» meaning fifth caste; «Chandalas» meaning worst of the earth; «Depressed classes» given during British Colonial days, and Scheduled Caste given by the Indian Constitution.

Fifth of all, as long as parents aren't outright abusing their children, most liberals (again, by which I mean liberal civilians) don't care how they choose to punish them.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, recently raised a commotion by trying to educate his country's youth: Every fifth grader, he said, should adopt the story of one of France's 11,000 Jewish children killed during the Holocaust, in order to teach them about prejudice and the evils....

The choice of the name reflects a statement to be defiantly Muslim when one's children are being denied the opportunity to become British If the Brits do not solve their problem with assimilating Muslims into British society, theu will be laying the groundowrk for a fifth column path for terrorists and extremists.

The NSPCC and O2 polled mothers and fathers with youngsters aged eight to 13 and found that less than a fifth of parents are having frequent conversations with their children about staying safe online.

In Mozambique, for example, where a fourth of all children die before their fifth birthday, government expenditures for debt repayment are four times more than for public health.

W. H. Rockenstein, «Children and Religious Television: An Experimental Study of the Reactions of Children in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grades in Monogalia County, West Virginia to Children's Religious Television Programming,» Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1966, pp. 161 - 75; Frank Klos, «A Study of the Origin, Utilization, and Impact of the «Davey and Goliath» Series 1959 - 77 and Its Present Effectiveness in Teaching Religious Values to Children,» Ed.D. dissertation, Temple University, 1979, pp. 177 - 82.

The abortion rate reported by the Centers for Disease Control stayed steady at 24 or 23 per 1,000 women of child - bearing age from 1978 through 1992 (the last year of Bush the elder's administration), but then dropped dramatically to 17 per 1,000 by 1998 (the fifth year of the Clinton administration), as the unemployment rate also dropped dramatically.

I am (a) a delusional schizophrenic; (b) a naïve child, too young to know that that is silly (c) an ignorant farmer from Sudan who never had the benefit of even a fifth grade education; or (d) your average Christian Millions and millions of Catholics believe that bread and wine turns into the actual flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because: (a) there are obvious visible changes in the condiments after the Catholic priest does his hocus pocus; (b) tests have confirmed a divine presence in the bread and wine; (c) now and then their god shows up and confirms this story; or (d) their religious convictions tell them to blindly accept this completely fvcking absurd nonsense.

Two - fifths of consumers (40 %) have a child who has ordered a kids breakfast item at a restaurant or other foodservice location in the past year.

Hurdler Eilidh Child explains how her fifth - place finish in Moscow has given her confidence ahead of next year's Commonwealth Games

In the fifth in my series of Wanderlust Festival videos on why yoga is great for kids, Jenny Sauer - Klein, co-founder of AcroYoga, discusses how yoga can be a catalyst for children, increasing self - confidence and focus, and helping them feeling empowered in their bodies.

Each parent can take a total of up to 13 weeks» parental leave for each child, up to their fifth birthday (or if you have a disabled child, 18 weeks each until their 18th birthday).

Because children spend so many hours each week at the Educare center, beginning at such an early age, the program has, more or less by default, a significant amount of control over their development up until their fifth birthday.

I'm sure it was for Melania Trump, too, who said the birth of her first child, Barron, at age 35, and her husband's fifth child, was «very, very easy.»

We especially love the newest: Chicago Children's Theatre's Spring Ahead Camp at The Station where kindergarteners - fifth - graders create a mini-show of singing, storytelling and dancing all about their hopes and dreams, then perform it on stage.

Two fifths (40 %) of parents say their children get a better understanding of geography by travelling on train and 34 % say their children benefit from spending more quality time with their family.

I've used these tips for my five children and although my first four babies slept through the night in six hour chunks by the age of four months, my fifth baby reminded me that I didn't know it all.

Whether this is your first or your fifth child, you will feel more prepared for the rigor of childbirth by investing your time and resources in a quality childbirth preparation program.

On the fifth day of my gentle parenting experiment, I took my daughter to the local children's museum with her friends while her brother was at school.