Sentences with phrase «interests of the child rather»

Through his role as Chief Executive Officer of New Schools for Chicago, Daniel Anello is creating a platform for parents and students to make school quality so resonant that decision - makers are compelled to support education policy that prioritizes the interests of children rather than the adults.

Whatever happened to the case - by - case judgments where the focus was on the best interests of the child rather than restricting a judge's options if everything else is equal?

While the Court of Appeal noted correctly that separation agreements are not binding on the court because it is the interests of the children rather than those of the parents which are at issue, nevertheless, the appeal court noted that it is reasonable to think that at the time the separation agreement was made it reflected the parties» views of the best interests of the children.

When looking at potential adoptive parents for the child, the focus will be on what are the best interests of the child rather than that of the adoptive parents, or indeed the birth parents.

These third parties provide various roles on behalf of the court or the children to advocate for the interests of the children rather than the parents.

Not exact matches

Nor did it mean all adults were amused by or even interested in children; much more than today, adults socialized with other adults, rather than enjoying the company of their children.

I also find it rather interesting that these are the same people so concerned about the welfare of children that they ignored, and hid the fact that many of their preist were raping children.

No evidence that the innovation was in the interest of children was made available but rather it was assumed that same - sex couples had to be as good as a mother and father since the equivalence had already been established in previous legislation.

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.

Oh, and then both of the children have rather, um, interesting diapers that must be changed.

Rather, we advocate what we believe to be in the «best interests» of children.

In Nevada, the courts presume that joint custody — rather than sole custody — is in the best interests of the child.

Children are selected based on interest, enthusiasm and commitment rather than exceptional musical ability, according to Lucy Ding, musical director of the chorus.

In his statement yesterday, Roberts said he's «very disappointed that the bipartisan, bicameral Child Nutrition Reauthorization negotiations have come to an end for the 114th Congress» and he accused his colleagues in the House and minority members of the Senate of putting «certain parochial interests and the desire for issues rather than solutions... ahead of the wellbeing of vulnerable and at - risk populations and the need for reform.»

The mess was never my issue — it was rather that I was working so hard to make all sorts of mushy food and serve it and my child just didn't seem interested.

A couple things about this study are worth mentioning: a) they removed cases in which symptoms of cancer occurred in the first nine months or the child died in the first year, which may be where the effects of breastfeeding are strongest (though I certainly don't know this for a fact, but it is reasonable); and b) they did not examine exclusive breastfeeding, but rather any breastfeeding (this is important as the effects of breastfeeding are known to be strongest when breastfeeding is exclusive and it is also difficult to ascertain how little or how much women were breastfeeding when any breastfeeding is the variable of interest).

StudentsFirstNY is New York's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

Formed in April 2012, StudentsFirstNY with more than 150,000 members, is New York State's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

About StudentsFirstNY Formed in April 2012, StudentsFirstNY with more than 150,000 members, is New York State's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

Interesting, too, is the inescapable idea that the only genuinely convincing relationships in the film are homosexual, and that the picture could be read with profit as an escalating evolution of father relationships from low to positively Christian (mad steward Denethor and son Faramir, Frodo and Gollum, Gandalf and the hobbits, Aragorn and mankind)-- but part and parcel with the oft - fascinating subtext and beautiful images is a parade of useless cameos (please, enough Cate Blanchett), de rigueur expository flashbacks, and the squandering of opportunities to locate the genuine interest in unlikely epic heroes (women and, essentially, children), rather than just pay lip service to them.

I was also sort of interested in a few segments in which the evil trolls appear decked out in full Wagnerian regalia, but rather than an attempt to work Gotterdammerung into a children's film, it appears to be just another dimwitted rip - off, this time of a Warner Bros. «Bugs Bunny» cartoon.

Rather than seeing a system controlled by its employees as one characterized by self - interested adults maximizing their benefits at the expense of children, Kahlenberg sees it as the ideal.

What is surprising, however, is that there are those who - despite all the news, documentaries, journalism, research and literature today openly available to anyone interested to learn more - believe that Finland is a «completely socialist country» where its children are educated by the State rather than parents, that the vast majority of children don't get enough school education their parents (if they can afford it) have to buy proper education for their children, that resources are not distributed equitably to all, and that all schools are unionized.

StudentsFirstNY is New York's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

IEP teams found reasons to deny proper services and appropriate placements to save a buck and their backsides rather than make decisions based on the best interests of children.

Equipped with the right curriculum, the natural curiosity of young children can be channeled into a science inquiry model and rather than quashing their enthusiasm, the students can begin to understand the scientific inquiry process and to self - identify as interested in and good at science!

When our state education officials impose an educational program that does nothing to develop our children's intellectual abilities, intentionally mislead parents about what the law on testing permits, then waste scarce taxpayer dollars, not on educational services, but rather on a media blitz to further snow the public, we know that they do not have the best educational interests of our children in mind.

Unfortunately, in the Governor's first full day in office, he chose to stand with the state's most powerful interest group that spent millions to elect him, rather than the parents and children of California.»

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Chief of Strategy, Chicago International Charter School (CICS) Today, Chicago's poor children go to schools that are not preparing them for college, career, or life, and every day the discussion about education is focused on adult interests rather than the success of children.

But beyond such important considerations of adult vs. children's material, Rusch writes that she sees readers following their interests by types of story, rather than bylines.

Some of them LOVE to work with children, some have extra interest in environment and Marine Biology and some rather do beginner level courses but most important... all of them are passionate divers and Instructors.

Aurora, who is a Princess in Child of Light, was a rather interesting character.

Nintendo offered the Labo as something interesting, specifically for children, rather than part of the normal video game stuff.

After all, there are few areas that are really «denied» to men, if the level of operations demanded be transcendent, responsible or rewarding enough: men who have a need for «feminine» involvement with babies or children gain status as pediatricians or child psychologists, with a nurse (female) to do the more routine work; those who feel the urge for kitchen creativity may gain fame as master chefs; and, of course, men who yearn to fulfill themselves through what are often termed «feminine» artistic interests can find themselves as painters or sculptors, rather than as volunteer museum aides or part time ceramists, as their female counterparts so often end up doing; as far as scholarship is concerned, how many men would be willing to change their jobs as teachers and researchers for those of unpaid, part - time research assistants and typists as well as full - time nannies and domestic workers?

[187] The focus is on the best interests of the child, rather than the interests and rights of the parents: Gordon v. Goertz [1996] 2 S.C.R. 27 at para. 49.

In so doing, the welfare of the child concerned seems to have been connoted entirely with justice («the interests of that little girl... in having an allegation properly investigated and tested» (para [1]-RRB--RRB- rather than in the abstract: the public interest in ensuring that those with information about abuse of children come forward (per D v National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children [1978] children come forward (per D v National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children [1978] Children [1978] AC 171).

Jane Murphy and Jana Singer indicate in the Maryland Law Review Endnotes that lower income families «are subject to a system designed primarily to reduce the state's welfare costs, rather than to resolve disputes respectfully or to promote the interests of children.»

One of the greatest obstacles to accomplishing «responsible lawyering» in the FRC context is the undue emphasis by some lawyers on their adult clients in proceedings, rather than the children's interests or the family as a whole.

In regards to the decision allowing the mother to relocate at the end of the school year with the children, the father claimed that the decision was an abuse of discretion because the court focused solely on the benefits the mother would gain rather than what was in the children's best interests or how it would affect parenting time on the part of the father.

Rather, if the parties agree to such binding arbitration, the agreement is either (a) void completely, or (b) enforceable, but only to the extent that the arbitrator's decision is completely reviewable by the court to determine the best interests of the child.

But, unlike most mediators, the facilitator usually has a counseling background and helps families work through the emotional fallout of divorce, keeps the focus on the future rather than on arguments of the past, ensures that the children's best interests are being addressed, and teaches the spouses (and their attorneys) to communicate respectively and productively.

The father argued on appeal that the cancellation of one of the overnights had nothing to do with the best interests of the child but rather was related to child support.

It is manifest that we are confronted with the task of first construing «and / or,» that befuddling, nameless thing, that Janus - faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of a brain of some one too lazy or too dull to express his precise meaning, or too dull to know what he did mean, now commonly used by lawyers in drafting legal documents, through carelessness or ignorance or as a cunning device to conceal rather than express meaning with view to furthering the interest of their clients.

«We agreed in the big picture this was something the public was going to be interested in and that there was a benefit of putting it on our web site in a way everyone could have access to it rather than just waiting for individual requests,» says Megan Evans, chief legal officer and risk officer with the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

There isn't enough information for me to know why the insurance was purchased on the child, but hopefully it was to protect the child's interests later in life rather than a «benefit» to the owner / beneficiary of the policy if the child dies during their formative years.

Legal barriers in the courts: The «best interests of the child» standard is often illdefined; courts can make custody and parenting decisions based on a mental health diagnosis, rather than parenting abilities

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The courts will always try to decide child custody in the best interests of the children, rather than in the best interests of the parents.

The law does not favor child custody to go to a father or a mother, but rather looks at what is in the best interests of your children.