Sentences with phrase «have fewer children with»

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The 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that close relationships with children and other relatives had very little impact on how long you live, but people with the most friends tended to outlive those with the fewest by 22 percent.

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

She plans to take the next few months, while on maternity leave with her first child, to consider what that project could be, but she admits that her childhood ambition has never fully extinguished.

«Growing up in a home with 500 books would propel a child 3.2 years further in education, on average, than would growing up in a similar home with few or no books,» the Pacific Standard noted.

But for the material Gibney had to work with, which includes a few wonderful interviews with old Apple employees and the mother of Jobs» first child Lisa, the result feels quite comprehensive.

Why are Jesus» children fighting so hard for so few who have so little in common with Jesus?

Personally yes, we were adopting a little boy however the mom has been showing a lot of improvement with staying clean over the last few months and the state has decided to allow her to keep her child.

Charter predicts in the future there will be «an increase in the current trend of churches that have made no provision for children and will, therefore, be in decline with fewer leaders.

Do you have any clue about how few people were involved with that and how it pales in comparison to child abuse in government schools?

With people having fewer or no children, too, that might have a similar influence.

She's been reading aloud to her six kids (preschool to high school) ever since, and has spent the last few years chatting with experts, authors, parents, and leaders, discovering how a simple choice to pull a book off a shelf and share it with a child is one of the very best decisions a parent can make.

A few days earlier, I had the chance to talk with Norma — a woman who had once been a sponsored child and who is now responsible for leading all the programs related to women's empowerment in Colomi, where World Vision has just started making an impact.

Aunt Pearl's auburn hair shone bright red in the sun as she listened intently for a few minutes, then with a determined, «Let me see what I can do» she turned back to the house where she had raised six children and seven foster children, calling out directions for the three of us older visiting Thomas children to go to various parts of the house for supplies.

Robert Coles, author and child psychiatrist at Harvard, met and had several conversations with Karen Horney when he was a medical student and she was hospitalized in New York City, a few days before her death.

Already there are many thousands of present - day parents who were brought up with no religious faith and few standards, and they have had almost nothing, and sometimes less than nothing of spiritual value, to pass on to their children.

Jay, if prayer worked, then the prayerful would have less disease, live longer, have fewer divorces, miscarriages, children with birth defects, car accidents, kids on drugs, etc, etc, etc..

With the simplest of methods for gathering the simplest of nourishment and with a few acts of healing, we have sufficient justification for abandoning: one of the ten commandments, a substantial body of religious law, a defining cultural activity and for setting aside all the spiritual and secular reasoning for honoring and holding sacred a day of rest and reflection — and replace it with professional sports, athletic competitions for children, travel and recreation, cultural activities and being open for business 2With the simplest of methods for gathering the simplest of nourishment and with a few acts of healing, we have sufficient justification for abandoning: one of the ten commandments, a substantial body of religious law, a defining cultural activity and for setting aside all the spiritual and secular reasoning for honoring and holding sacred a day of rest and reflection — and replace it with professional sports, athletic competitions for children, travel and recreation, cultural activities and being open for business 2with a few acts of healing, we have sufficient justification for abandoning: one of the ten commandments, a substantial body of religious law, a defining cultural activity and for setting aside all the spiritual and secular reasoning for honoring and holding sacred a day of rest and reflection — and replace it with professional sports, athletic competitions for children, travel and recreation, cultural activities and being open for business 2with professional sports, athletic competitions for children, travel and recreation, cultural activities and being open for business 24/7.

In the future, fewer people will marry, more people who marry will divorce, more people who many will do so later in life, more people will cohabit, fewer people will have children, more people who have children will do so outside of marriage and more people will want to form informal unions of various kinds and experiment with reproductive technologies outside of either marriage or heterosexual unions.

AsI came to separate who I was as spirit and soul from my ego or flesh and the latters coping mechanisms the inimacy with a few others became a place i not only went to for encouragement, transparency and to heal that inner child but also a place for clarity, to be remided who I really am, where those who've come to know me see me, help divide through the bone and marrow per se.

Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close with a few of the books I have enjoyed with my children: Noel Streatfield's books about families with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.

Continue Reading» Haiti's Devils 01.21.2010 David B. Hart The ever slightly oafish Pat Robertson (you remember him: that fine Christian gentleman who just a few years ago defended China's infanticidal one - child policy, lest he imperil his own lucrative business relations with the PRC by publically criticizing the regime) has opined that the earthquake in Haiti....

If you are unfamiliar with the happenings in Massachusetts a few years ago, the Catholic Church was forced to withdraw from participation in the foster care and adoption system of the state because of moral objections to having to place children into homosexual households.

the earth just like the «tops» you played with as a child will eventually slow down that the earth will spend a day with one side facing the sun... however by the time that happens humans would have been dead for a few billion years.

Along with raising children and keeping house, spirituality has often been one of the few serious pursuits which women have been allowed and affirmed for.

We have a few non-white families, and some families with non-white children, but it feels like there's an invisible barrier to becoming more racially diverse.

It is this faith in and hope for the world that found perhaps its most glorious and most succinct expression in the few words with which the Gospels announced their «glad tidings»: «A child has been born unto us.

good do me a favor next time you speak with god tell him to come back around i have a few choice words i would like to have with him... like we is he such a dead beat father and where is all the back child support he owes humanity?

After 7 months of hospitalization of our youngest child we have been discharged today into a strange city with few acquaintances and fewer friends.

There appear to be no studies of children brought up by two male parents, and the few studies purporting to show that children with two lesbian mothers are in no way disadvantaged are typically flawed: they are taken from limited samples, have not followed the children's behaviour through time, and have generally been compiled solely on the lesbian parents» opinions.

Language of this sort may have seemed bizarre a few years ago; today it is as real as Patty Hearst and Lynette Fromme, the Unification Church and the Children of God, with all their demonic overtones.

Quite a few of us have stable relationships, raise healthy well - educated children, are free from addiction, vote, volunteer and donate to support causes that help make this society work, live in harmony with people who are different from us — I could go on, but you may get the idea that most of us do things most people would call good and have neither the inclination nor the time to do abominable things.

Affirmative action programs are being challenged; attitudes toward immigration have taken a restrictionist turn; and many white families seek to place their children in schools with few children of color.

Other witnesses argued that, inasmuch as almost 25,000 married couples in France have been approved but wait an average of five years to be able to adopt because fewer than 5,000 adoptions take place each year, it is possible to provide every adoptable child with a father and a mother who will offer him or her the best chance of integrating into a new family.

You have the thousands of children in Egypt with the plagues, then there's the slaughter of 36 children because a few of them teased a bald man, you have repeated genocides of nations and cities for just existing.

Strategically placed near the checkout line at the grocery store, where, after a frustrating hour of decision - making, calorie counting, list checking, and child - bribing, women would otherwise be forced to stop, wait, and ask themselves a few questions about the meaning of their existence, the magazine aisle dazzles us with photoshopped images of super-skinny models, next to impeccably arranged place settings, next to actresses praised for losing their baby weight in five minutes, next to Martha Stewart holding a perfectly frosted chocolate cake.

As I've spent the past few years struggling with doubt and grasping for faith, I've found that being ready with an answer does not do justice to the seriousness of questions like, why does God allow innocent children to starve to death?

«God has done many miracles, but I'm still asking for a few more, first, that my children will come to South Korea, and second, that I'll be able to share the gospel with them so that they will also become followers of Christ.»

And can one state that the peaceful pro — life activists who have saved hundreds of thousands of children are less effective or morally inferior to a few terrorists who can not with any certainty say they've saved a single life at all?

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

I don't recall ever have tomato soup or macaroni and cheese as a child either (which is probably why I never turn down a serving now), but grilled cheese was a basic staple that I had ignored for a few years into my adult hood because I associated it with tasteless cheese and soggy bread.

I have a child with sensory processing disorder, and simple white butter buns are some of the few foods he eats.

So, I decided every Sunday I would spend a few hours putting snacks together that should last the whole week with my four children.

Well, I'm not actually sure I've ever been on one, but I love the idea and I've certainly witnessed a few with the excited squeals of children ringing in my ears.

One of my children appeared to have walked off with my cupcake holders so I out in a bread pan and baked an extra few minutes, maybe 5?

Studies have shown that children with good omega - 3 intake do better in school and have fewer behavioral problems.

IRI GIRA Foodservice believes that increasingly fluid families — in particular fewer families with children and more single parent or single occupant homes — and more people working away from home has led to greater demand for convenient meal solutions.

This is simple a very intelligent child can solve this problem.Firstly today our keeper was very poor however i know he will come good.By the way why is Paulista no getting his chance.What i have observed about arsenal since we signed Mertesacker from day one and since he started playing is that Mertesacker hardly gets involved you will usually see him a few times because he does not want to get caught out.e has always been a weak link in the defence even in his greatest performances here.When i see us playing with a high line and he is there i always laugh.It is just a mistake waiting to happen and i can tell u that it will happen again this season.Secondly why is Ramsey Cazorla and Ozil playing in the same line - up in a 4 -5-1 formation.That is just not right though it will win you some matches due to individual brilliance.It wont work at all.Lastly the least i say about Giroud the better i am not judging him on one game.One would imagine if he was not french and like chinese will he be getting these chances under Wenger.To me he will always be an average player and i will stand by my word even if he has good games.

You are they type that think we are better off letting Islam walk all over us, rather than March hand in hand with our brothers across London Bridge last saturday and would rather stay in the EU for the sake of a few quid rather than protect your children.

They are describing the trip as a «babymoon», with it being their final few weeks of freedom before having to look after the child.

Over the past few months, our Manchester - based men's football club have been actively building strong links with local primary schools to provide coaching opportunities for children.