Sentences with phrase «from high income parents»

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Domestically, students who came from higher - income families, or had a parent in a skilled occupation (especially one in finance) tended to score higher, as did students who had their own bank account.

I fully admit $ 100k was a gift & early inheritance, then then rest was from saving W2 income, lived with parents a couple of years, luck, and pouring almost all savings into a high cap commercial real estate deal.

A few of the many things that jump off of the pages for me are that it doesn't seem to support working families with kids (it REPEALS the up to $ 5,000 exclusion from gross income for dependent care assistance that many working parents use to subsidize the skyrocketing costs of child care while they work) or even those who (like my fantastic law students at UNLV) are pursuing and paying for higher education.

Straus and Bacon, for example, in their study of over 15,000 college students, found that the incidence of abstention from alcohol on the part of the parents decreased in each category as they moved from lower to higher family income.

Children from low - income, two - parent families outperform students from high - income, single - parent homes.

«As parents, we want to shield our children from the pains of growing up and facing difficult situations, but long term we must honor our kids» desire for some struggle,» Tough said, adding that the struggles between those with high incomes and high poverty are different and require distinct supports.

These problems arise most often in those high - income homes where children feel simultaneously a great pressure to achieve and an emotional distance from their parents — a particularly toxic combination, according to Luthar and Levine.

BOSTON — Efforts to close the word gap — the vast difference in the number of words heard by children from low - income and higher - income homes — by working with the parents and caregivers of very young children have shown promising new results in the behavior of parents and children, according to three researchers at a Feb. 17 briefing at the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.

Published in Gender & Society, a journal in Gender Studies and Sociology field, Reich's research shows that unvaccinated or under - vaccinated children from higher income backgrounds, with parents who are higher educated, have parents who intentionally choose to refuse or delay vaccinations out of a belief that they are protecting their children.

Although artificially conceived babies have a higher risk of being born prematurely or as a multiple birth, we have found they also have parents who are older, better educated and from a higher income bracket.

After taking into account their parents» income and education — factors that are known to affect exam scores — the highest - achieving students were more than three times more likely to suffer from the mental illness than their average peers.

And the Providence Talks initiative is working to close the «word gap» that separates kindergarteners from low - and high - income families by empowering parents to talk more with their young children and take an active role in those children's education from the start.

It remains pretty much as before, except that it is somewhat higher in income, contains proportionately fewer minorities, and retains more parents who are from better districts.

Additionally, parents from high - income neighborhoods are about 4 percentage points more likely to make a request than parents from low - income neighborhoods (17 percent vs. 13 percent).

If high - income parents are more likely to make a request, and such requests are for better teachers on average, then the availability of requests could exacerbate the achievement gap between students from low - and high - income families, even if all families equally value academic achievement.

Even though young immigrants from Mexico are achieving higher levels of education than their parents, they are not attaining incomes that are greater than their parents.

Their ability to lift students who come from low - income, single - parent families to a high level of performance that prepares them for college has shed a warm glow over the entire charter - school undertaking.

That ranged from a high of 87 percent among students whose parents had the highest level of income and education to 58 percent of those whose parents were the least educated, poorest, and largely unskilled.

They are also about four times as likely to have families with incomes below $ 50,000 and to have parents who did not graduate from high school.

The higher - income families received an estimated 90 percent of tax savings from the practice of shifting taxable income from parents to children...

White, African American, and Hispanic higher - income parents valued income diversity in schools because they believed that kids benefited from exposure to «the real world» outside their own community.

*, giving policymakers, researchers, educators, and parents information to identify schools and cities where students from low - income families are achieving at high levels compared to their more advantaged peers, nationally.

We have released school and city scores for the 300 largest U.S. cities *, giving policymakers, researchers, educators, and parents information to identify schools and cities where students from low - income families are achieving at high levels compared to their more advantaged peers, nationally.

The state's higher - income students, represented by those whose parents graduated from college, did slightly better but were still 35th out of 43 states.

On the other hand, free preschool for children from upper income families may have lower economic development benefits, as many of these children are already in high - quality preschool programs paid for by their parents.

«Not all of these students were from wealthy families but most were; as parents typically had advanced educational degrees and median incomes much higher than national norms,» she added.

Studies have shown that children of wealthier, more educated parents hear far more words and engage in more dialogue than their low - income counterparts almost from birth, and they enter school with significantly higher literacy skills.

North Carolina, like many states, sets aside additional money for poor districts and disadvantaged students — that is, kids who come from a single - parent family, low - income family, or have at least one parent who did not earn a high school diploma.

However, it is also important to note that many low - income parents also think highly of their children's teachers, and that problems faced by families and children at high - poverty schools generally stem more from teacher inexperience and revolving - door teacher turnover than from the shortcomings of teaching veterans.

The Louisiana program has been operational for five years and was designed as a voluntary program enabling low - income parents to move their children from low - performing public schools to either higher - performing public schools or to private schools.

Barton cites a General Accounting Office report that identified four factors correlated with low high school completion rates: coming from low - income and single - parent families, getting low grades in school, being absent frequently, and changing schools.

While parents of disadvantaged students do attempt to enroll their children in higher - scoring schools (when knowledgeable about the data)(Hastings, Justine, and Weinstein), middle and upper - class parents are often more successful because they are not confined by local governmental laws that block low - income students and their families from living near or attending these schools.

For dependent children age 18 and younger (or under age 24 if a full - time student) in 2017, unearned income above $ 2,100 (from a taxable account) is taxed at the parents» highest marginal income tax rate, which is likely to be higher than the capital gains rate that would otherwise apply if the investments were in the parents» names.

In general this strategy below is best applied for those who have significant savings and income high enough to disqualify them from any financial aid, and with parent's whose income is high enough to disqualify them from the American Opportunity Credit (that is, household income over $ 180,000).

One approach is called the set off where the amount notionally paid by the lower income parent assuming the other parent gets full guideline support is deducted from the notional amount owed by the higher earning parent assuming the lower income parent would get full guideline support.

When there is near equal parenting time, and the custodial parent has significantly higher income than the noncustodial parent, application of the parenting time credit should result in an order for the child support to be paid from a custodial parent to a noncustodial parent, absent grounds for a deviation.

Whenever we have good grounds of suspicion a parent is on legal aid trying to remove our client from the lives of the children and their income is higher than the legal aid guidelines, we write a letter of complaint to the Legal Services Society.

Methods We systematically reviewed the evidence for interventions in high - income countries to improve child development by enhancing health service contact with parents from the antenatal period to 24 months postpartum.

As previously described, 25 the SES of the study members» parents was measured on a scale that placed occupations into one of 6 categories (with 1 indicating professional and 6, unskilled laborer) based on education and income associated with that occupation in data from the New Zealand census.45 To define childhood SES, we first identified at each assessment the highest SES of either parent and then averaged those measures over repeated assessments from study members» birth to age 15 years.

Recent analyses suggest that households with a «mixed» child are more likely to have higher incomes, a higher level of education and are generally less likely to live in lone parent households compared to households with non-mixed children from ethnic minorities.

In the long term, those participating children are more likely to be employed and less likely to be dependent on government assistance.9 The positive effects are larger, and more likely to be sustained, when programs are high quality.10 In addition, the impact is greatest for children from low - income families.11 Differences in children's cognitive abilities by income are evident at only nine months old and significantly widen by the time children are two years old.12 Children living in poverty are more likely to be subject to stressful home environments — which can have lifelong impacts on learning, cognition, and self - regulation — while parents living in poverty have limited resources to provide for their families and high barriers to accessing affordable, high - quality child care.13 High - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's developmenhigh quality.10 In addition, the impact is greatest for children from low - income families.11 Differences in children's cognitive abilities by income are evident at only nine months old and significantly widen by the time children are two years old.12 Children living in poverty are more likely to be subject to stressful home environments — which can have lifelong impacts on learning, cognition, and self - regulation — while parents living in poverty have limited resources to provide for their families and high barriers to accessing affordable, high - quality child care.13 High - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's developmenhigh barriers to accessing affordable, high - quality child care.13 High - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's developmenhigh - quality child care.13 High - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's developmenHigh - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's development.14

Moderate - income families are typically ineligible for these publicly funded programs, but at the same time, such families struggle to afford the high cost of care in the private sector.19 This leaves parents facing a series of difficult choices, including prioritizing child care expenses over other household necessities; settling for low - quality child care that fits their budget; patching together multiple informal care options; or leaving the workforce altogether.20 To ensure that all children can realize the gains that come from attending high - quality early childhood programs, policy solutions need to focus on improving program supports and creating funding strategies that will increase access to high - quality programs for children from all backgrounds.

With training in clinical psychology and special education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and over 30 years at Duke, her primary practice and research projects have been in maternal and child health, early childhood development, and parenting in both high - and low - income countries.

Results from the present study indicate that children who are at highest risk of not learning to regulate physical aggression in early childhood have mothers with a history of antisocial behavior during their school years, mothers who start childbearing early and who smoke during pregnancy, and parents who have low income and have serious problems living together.

Results from the present study indicate that children who are at highest risk of not learning to regulate physical aggression in early childhood have mothers who have a history of antisocial behavior during their school years, who start childbearing early, and who smoke during pregnancy and have parents who have low income and serious problems living together.

Badger is drawing upon a new study by Kimberly Howard and Richard Reeves from the Brookings Center on Children and Families, which found that higher income and better parenting helped to account for much of the positive effect of marriage on children's success in life.

Effects from FF were not moderated by income, but greater positive impact of the program was found for lower educated parents and for families with a father who reported higher levels of insecure attachment in close relationships.

Limitations include control group parents were not offered an intervention on a waitlist basis, reliability of self - report measures, and generalizability of findings due to youth coming from predominantly white, middle - to - higher income two - parent families.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.

To date, the majority of evaluations that show the effects of parenting programmes are from high - income countries, although there is a growing list of rigorous, randomized trials from low - and middle - income countries.