Sentences with phrase «have fewer children in»

In Philadelphia, what is most vexing are the politicians who have, or whose children have, attended magnet and criteria - based schools — schools that have historically been closed to most black children, have fewer children in poverty than the city's average, fewer students with special needs or ELL support, and who screen entry of its students studiously, and vigilantly.

This is one explanation for why developed countries, whose mothers breastfeed for shorter durations (or not at all) and have fewer children in their lifetimes, have higher rates of breast cancer among their populations.

Not exact matches

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.

Previous studies have controlled for the fact that lesbians are better educated, more likely to be white, have fewer children and live in cities, but a 6 % wage premium still exists.

«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.

Parents of highly creative children had an average of fewer than one rule,» writes Grant in the op - ed.

I know there are few children in the world who could have seen that ball, let alone hit it...

Not only are women having fewer children today, but they are having them under different circumstances than in the past.

That is a tough balancing act for a country that relies on foreign capital to finance its current account deficit - which has doubled to $ 55 billion over the last few years, according to Citigroup - but where the government says three in five children are stunted from malnutrition.

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

I didn't buy «Japan is Number One» when that was the mantra two decades ago, because Japan had severe demographic problems» as in, very few children; its lack of the most basic form of people power in the most elementary form, I thought, would soon become evident in economic weakness (as it has).

In sum, although a few apologists such as Stephanie Coontz still insist otherwise, just about everyone else in possession of the evidence acknowledges that the sexual revolution has weakened family ties, and that family ties (the presence of a biologically related mother and father in the home) have turned out to be important indicators of child well - being — and more, that the broken home is not just a problem for individuals but also for societIn sum, although a few apologists such as Stephanie Coontz still insist otherwise, just about everyone else in possession of the evidence acknowledges that the sexual revolution has weakened family ties, and that family ties (the presence of a biologically related mother and father in the home) have turned out to be important indicators of child well - being — and more, that the broken home is not just a problem for individuals but also for societin possession of the evidence acknowledges that the sexual revolution has weakened family ties, and that family ties (the presence of a biologically related mother and father in the home) have turned out to be important indicators of child well - being — and more, that the broken home is not just a problem for individuals but also for societin the home) have turned out to be important indicators of child well - being — and more, that the broken home is not just a problem for individuals but also for society.

Thus many Catholics complain about the dearth of priests, all the while ignoring their own responsibility for that outcome — the fact that few have children in numbers large enough to send one son to the priesthood while the others marry and carry on the family name.

This statistic, which has been going around for a few years now, in fact refers to single, child - free women under age 30 and living in metropolitan areas.

Her emphasis is perhaps psychologically understandable, given the ferocious battering that the Palin clan, most notably the children, has endured in the press over the past few years.

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?

And to that point, since 1950 there have been over 10,000 children in the USA that have been raped by Catholics (and a few thousand other religious leaders) and it's just very recently that any of them have faced the law the way any non-priest would.

And in several weddings over the past few years, I've heard the officiating ministers (all of them male) warn young brides to avoid «letting themselves go» after having children or else their husbands might be tempted to «look elsewhere.»

It's a combination of a few things that are real: the baby won't sleep, I have four children and there aren't enough hours in the day for everything to get done, I have obligations...

Here are a few helpful tips that I've gathered from three separate Counseling journals about how to help your children in both the dying process and in death.

And of course there would be those on the right, advocating for Muslim prayer in schools, not worrying about how the few Christian children might be impacted, and doing whatever they can to write bits of Sharia into the law of the land.

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.

-- Also I grew up a child of refugees and in post war Germany and, therefore, have a few first hand stories and experiences.

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.

In the same book Pope John Paul wrote that «a determination on the part of husband and wife to have as few children as possible, to make their own lives easy, is bound to inflict moral damage both on their family and on society at large.»

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 unionIn 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 unionin 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.

The children range in age from a few months to five years old, and they have come because their parents must work or look for work.

Let a child be physically maimed for life by a birth injury, or spiritually maimed by having to grow up in hunger and fear as in war - torn lands, or in squalor and crime as in our own slums; and then when the natural consequences appear, not a few pious Christians will say that God in his inscrutable providence willed it to be this way.

The number of new recruits to the priesthood has fallen sharply in the recent decades - and as Ireland has become engulfed in a series of child sex abuse scandals over the past few years.

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.

It's a combination of a few things that are real: the baby won't sleep, I have four children and there aren't enough hours in the day for everything to get done, I have obligations and duties and work and requirements demanding all of my attention and my time just like everyone else — trust me, I'm no special snowflake.

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....

Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower, Mary Ann Mason reports that while women in so - called «fast - track professions» have fewer children than does the average American woman, female faculty are almost half as likely as female physicians and slightly less likely than female lawyers to have a child at all, even though academia offers far more flexible hours than the average law firm or hospital.

As time goes by, however, Boy seems not to have learned a few simple truths that are usually instilled in children by those who genuinely care for their well - being.

The gist of the argument, summarized in the current issue of Foreign Policy, is this: «Across the globe, people are choosing to have fewer children or none at all.

We've internalized those things in the form in which we learned them, as stories suitable for children, and very few of us ever examine them anymore.

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.

(It's an uncomfortable reality, but if complementarians were as consistent in their application of biblically - based pastoral qualifications as they claim to be, a few of their most prominent spokesmen would have had to resign from their pastoral positions when their children left the faith.

When I hear the expression, «God is in control,» I tend to think about the Asian tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands in 2004, the countless women who have been raped in the Congo over the last few days, and the many children who will die of hunger and preventable disease this year.

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.

As a result, some of the best recent efforts in Christian education have been in adult education — programs that enrich adult communities in which there are children, not communities of children in which there happen to be a few adults.

More than a few questions linger in the wake of these six attempts to reimage redemption: How, one may ask, can we experience the process of letting - go without falling victim to the surrender imagery that has done such harm to women and children, particularly in abusive situations?

yuogot a few years f «education» of psych under your belt... that makes you more knowledgeable than me who has a degree in it and work in the field... go ahead... keep your children away from me if you wish... you are delusional about my work...

Still, Rabbi Avi Shafran, director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America, the largest organization of Haredi Jews in the United States, sees the future differently: «There will be an economic crunch, and there already are many two - income families in the community, but no Haredi Jew is starving, or having fewer children because of economic restraints....

While most Jews in America have few children, the Jews of New Square have many: at least six children per woman, and possibly even more, a rate among the highest on earth.

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.

«I feel compelled to personally take on all the evil which some priests, quite a few in number, obviously not compared to the number of all the priests, to personally ask for forgiveness for the damage they have done for having sexually abused children,» the Pope said in remarks quoted by Vatican Radio.

The few above - mentioned examples might have already shown that the natural development of cognition in the child in no way corresponds to the process which Whitehead called «clear - cut philosophy» (PR 209f.