Sentences with phrase «individual lives of children»

Decoding the unique medical needs of the Amish allows us to have an impact on the individual lives of children and their family, but also impact the broader community as a whole.

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Other measures include: • remove rule limiting Child Tax Credit (CTC) to one claimant per household (to allow two or more families sharing a house to claim the CTC); • repeal $ 10,000 cap on medical expense tax credit claims made on medical costs incurred for an eligible dependent; • easier access to funds in Registered Disability Savings Plans for beneficiaries with shortened life spans; • improved Employment Insurance benefits to parents of gravely ill, murdered, or missing children; and • enhanced ability to make transfers between individual RESPs, and better access to RESP funds for post-secondary students studying outside Canada.

One of the things I've done in my work is kind of show the hypocrisy of progressive people who say they believe in inequality, but when it comes to their individual choices about where they're going to live and where they're going to send their children, they make very different decisions, and I just didn't want to do that.

It is also quite different from an understanding of parental nurture aimed principally at «enriching» the lives of individual children.

But when, by contrast, parental love is grounded in the facts of biological and historical bonding, the child lives in a setting offering the kind of acceptance human beings need in order themselves to become capable of adult commitment — a setting in which individuals who are separate but connected can grow and flourish.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

In sum, because it treats belief as an atomistic decision taken piecemeal by individuals rather than a holistic response to family life, Nietzsche's madman and his offspring, secularization theory, appear to present an incomplete version of how some considerable portion of human beings actually come to think and behave about things religious — not one by one and all on their own, but rather mediated through the elemental connections of husband, wife, child, aunt, great - grandfather, and the rest.

Only in a tradition where adults continue to refer to the family life of individual church members as «the Christian home» would pastors, educators, and theologians have continued to believe for so long that parents are more important than the church is to the faith of children.

The great achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him of the whole life of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment of great ends: the redemption of the world and the opening of rich life for His children.

After all, when the sound and fury of the debate has died away, this is about individuals who are children of God; it is about God's love for them, and His desire that they truly flourish in this life and for all eternity.

Berne also credits the Child ego - state with «the real living of real intimacy» and maintains that, «after the close intimacy with the mother is over,» the individual is perpetually «striving for continued physical intimacy in the infant style.»

This effort must continue to the point where the child can see the problem of a life role more clearly as a sexually differentiated individual emerges from within.

While deep lessons for acting humanely can be learned from eating kosher (not cooking a kid in its mother's milk or not eating higher life forms like whales or monkeys) the ultimate reason for observance must simply be that it is divine and thus immutable and enduring — but it is still up to each individual to maintain the links of the chain of this unparalleled tradition for it to endure for future generations, for Mose and his children and their own...

We bring the gay demons out of these individuals so they can become who god intended them to be... Facing the reality that you have unwanted homosexual feelings can cause tremendous turmoil — especially as a child whose feelings conflict with deeply held values, beliefs and life goals.

It is also a way of offering the sign of peace that communicates the primacy of a parental love for each individual child within the relationships of family life.

But what the research shows is that it can also make a tremendous difference, not only in the lives of individual children and their families, but in our communities and our nation as a whole.

However, Family Nurses also gave examples of individual cases that illustrate progress for young men, in their interest in the child and their understanding of their own important role in family life (Barnes et al. 2011).

These passionate individuals work their hardest to teach a classroom full of children academic skills they need now plus the lifelong skills they need to be successful in life and are your partner in your child's education.

By building a firm foundation — first as c0 - parents and then with the individual child — family life can flow harmoniously, freeing up time for the best part of parenting — connection and enjoying time spent together.

Democratic - where the parents acknowledge the children as equals, not in terms of intelligence and life experience, but in terms of their value and rights as individuals.

Nominations are welcomed for any individual or group who has made a real difference to the lives of children through play.

It's a great thing, but, as he notes, «Because fathers demand a greater involvement in their children's lives after separation, there has been increasing conflict both at a policy level and at the individual level of litigated cases.»

Addressing the big picture of family life — including sleep, feeding, child development, sibling issues, marriage and refining individual parenting philosophy and style — Sleepy Planet helps parents create a balanced, fulfilling family experience.

With five years of clinical experience and nearly ten years of experience supporting individuals with developmental disabilities of all ages, Melanie offers a unique approach to addressing difficult behaviors, as well as the physical, emotional, and sensory regulation challenges that are often a big part of a child's life.

In order to ensure that each component maintains its structural integrity throughout the life of your child seat we invest more than 150 hours testing individual components on each product.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

If we can change our policies and our practices in the classroom, and work with researchers devoted to finding ways to help our children, we can «make a tremendous difference, not only in the lives of individual children and their families, but in our communities and our nation as a whole.»

I give these readers my best advice, of course, but lately I've been yearning to show them the bigger picture: how these problems came to be, who benefits from the status quo (even as our kids lose out), and what we — both as individuals and as a society — could be doing to make a real difference in the lives and health of all American children.

Being a member of a set of multiple - birth children continues to influence the development of the individuals within the set throughout their lives.

Area and individual maternal characteristics included country of residence, ward type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity (defined by Office for National Statistics guidelines and classified for this analysis as British / Irish white3 or of other ethnic origin), maternal age in years at cohort child's birth, level of education (attainment of qualification at GCSE grade G or above), parity (whether cohort child is first live birth), and lone parent status.

She joined Camp Kesem after completing a Child Life Practicum at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, where she realized that an individual's illness impacts each member of the family.

By the age of five or six, a child will have developed their life style — that is their own individual way of dealing with and responding to the world around them.

[Monday April 6, 2015] Altadena, CA — Couples, parents, individuals, supporters and friends of Five Acres are invited to participate in an uplifting conversation on the topic of positive parenting and raising happy children, at the live Twitter Chat on Thursday, April 9, 2015 @ 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.

[Monday April 6, 2015] Altadena, CA — Couples, parents, individuals, supporters and friends of Five Acres are invited to participate in an uplifting conversation on the topic of positive parenting and raising happy children, at the live Twitter Chat on Thursday, April 9, 2015 @ 11 a.m. — 1 p.m. Chief Executive Officer Chanel Boutakidis -LSB-...]

A big piece of a parent's responsibility is to clearly see each of their children for who they are, independent of parental preconceptions and dreams, and to foster that individual's strengths and enthusiasm for life, instead of struggling to fit him or her into society's narrow definitions of success.

In addition, domestic adoption is more suitable to individuals who would like to adopt a newborn, as international adoption usually involves the adoption of a older child living in an orphanage.

Update, Feb. 25, 2016: This post has been updated to clarify that the suggestion that breastfeeding won't make much of a difference in an individual child's life in the long run comes from other studies, not from Howe - Heyman and Lutenbacher.

But on an individual basis, breastfeeding is just one of many factors that affect a child's health, and some studies suggest it probably won't make much of a difference in an individual child's life in the long run.

Among those traditions are the ones that refuse individuals — particularly women and children — their basic rights and force them into situations that relegate them to a life of vulnerability to poverty, disease and other unbearable hardships.

First Lady Mrs Rebecca Akufo - Addo has called on all individuals and institutions to contribute whatever they can to help build a new mother and child unit for Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in the Ashanti Region to help «save the lives of our mothers and children in the region and beyond.»

The Catholic Relief Services» (CRS's) Afghanistan program she works for is largely comprised of unmarried individuals living in Afghanistan, and its security protocol does not allow children.

This study investigated whether children whose mothers had an alcohol - related disorder would be at risk of early - life contact with the justice system, which can lead to many negative outcomes across an individual's life span.

Despite a lack of symptoms, more than half of the children experienced stunted growth in the first two years of life, leading to irreversible damage and contributing to poor cognitive development, poor educational performance and reduced earning potential in adulthood, trapping individuals in a lifetime of poverty.

But if you are not happy with the state of the world, then ask yourself whether in order to secure the future of your individual child or your grandchild, is it enough for you just to buy life insurance for your child or to take out a remainder trust or to pay your child's tuition at a good school.

With special training early in life, children born with Down syndrome have a higher chance of developing into independent individuals

«If we can go in and, during a pandemic, treat individuals that are either susceptible to flu — the elderly or young children — or basically everybody during that period of time and decolonize them,» he says, «we have a better chance of saving a lot of lives.»

It represents a significant healthcare challenge, as many patients require life - long care and individuals may ask about the likelihood of their children being affected.

«When I work with women reporting low libido, I explore the health of their relationship in terms of communication styles, if they're feeling satisfied by sexual interaction, and also individual factors such as stress indicators (work, family, life) if experiencing anxiety, depression, exhaustion, on any medications or have dietary changes and even dealing with young children.»

Having travelled the world with elite athletes like the Olympic Winter Team and Worldtour Surfers, high profile executives in the business world, and being the auntie and friend to adorable children and people, she thrives to help each walk of life achieve their individual optimum.