Sentences with phrase «kin families»

Adoption, however, may be an appropriate permanency option for some kin families.

Planning for permanence for children should also include seeking appropriate support services for kin families.

Wonder if that could happen in Islam although know it is well regulated where no will is needed to divide among those next of kin family... but what I mean is whether if is possible for a man or woman give up their whole wealth for charities depriving those who would inherit??

Not exact matches

If that's not enough public embarrassment for you, tune into the sordid affairs and finances of Toni and her kin in the Braxton Family Values reality show on WE.

Family connections may be a source of a lot of pain or anger, and because of the way our legals system is set up, at every turn on «your way out», legal forms demand «next of kin», hospitals demand «next of kin» — no kidding the poor dying person has no choice but to think of fFamily connections may be a source of a lot of pain or anger, and because of the way our legals system is set up, at every turn on «your way out», legal forms demand «next of kin», hospitals demand «next of kin» — no kidding the poor dying person has no choice but to think of familyfamily.

Children don't want to be adopted, they want their own parents, their own kin, their own culture, not a let's pretend we are family.

It takes more than regular participation in worship to come to appreciate that it is the church, and not blood kin, that is the family of faith.

Herod could have easily had kin in Tarsus, and there is nothing to preclude Pharisees, even tent - making ones, from being members of that family either.

In granting moral accountability to women, Jesus automatically called into question the way the role of women, family, and blood kin had been understood in the Jewish tradition.

When her husband dies young, Ruth chooses not to return to her family but to accompany her widowed mother - in - law, Naomi, back to Bethlehem where Naomi's kin live.

Once alone, the family would silently move forward to the pastor, who would first hug and greet them and then provide Christ's body and blood for the kneeling kin.

Altruism begins with kin, who share genes, so that if I die for my family or clan, my genes survive in their offspring.

No doubt ideas of kin altruism (the mutual support extended between those who share in the family gene pool) and reciprocal altruism (favors done in the expectation of favors later to be received) shed some Darwinian light on aspects of human behavior.

I love my family, but Thanksgiving with Jason's kin pretty much won over every Thanksgiving I had with my own folks.

The next few weeks are a wonderful time to gather all of our kin around the family table for quality time, satisfying meals, and fun.

Like their kin in the rest of the Maestrale family, these boots offer a superb 39 degrees of cuff range for superior walking and touring, and — they offer surprising stiffness and performance once locked into descent mode.

Remember, it's not about spending money on luxurious venues or arranging fancy catering; the real beauty in using family websites is in keeping people connected, sharing burdens, and moving through life with the support of you kin.

Describes the characteristics and benefits of parent - child interaction therapy (PCIT), a family - centered treatment approach proven effective for abused and at - risk children ages 2 to 8 and their caregivers — birth parents, adoptive parents, or foster or kin caregivers.

If next of kin can not be located, the presumption under the bill is that the family would oppose dissection and autopsy, and the body then is released for burial, not to an educational institution.

In human terms, family is not so important after all; altruism emerges to protect social groups whether they are kin or not.

The study not only demonstrates that the influence of kin selection may stretch beyond that of nuclear and extended family groups thus promoting co-operation in large social groups, but it is also the first study to show that kin selection may promote the communal construction and maintenance of an animal - built physical structure.

He suggested that natural selection could encourage altruistic behavior among kin so as to improve the reproductive potential of the «family.»

At the meeting of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Poland last year, Paul Mathews and Rebecca Sear of the London School of Economics reported that women in the UK are more likely to start a family if they have strong kin ties, particularly if the relatives live within 80 kilometres and are in regular contact.

Rather than just knowing that your family came from Italy, Bustamante notes, you could hone in on the specific county or village your kin hailed from.

The find suggests that the ancestors of chelicerates — spiders, scorpions and their kin — branched off from the family tree of other arthropods — including insects, crustaceans and millipedes — more than half a billion years ago.

At root, we define ourselves with reference to our families and closest kin and work outward from there.

So I asked them why they were telling me this, and the one officer replied that Craig had no known family members still living and that his only will and testament stated that I was his next of kin.

Brussels sprouts are members of the Brassica family and therefore kin to broccoli and cabbage.

this year, after 29 years of spending my favorite holiday with my family, i finally gorged on turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, and pie with a group of people other than my next of kin.

Most African - American families readily accept marriages between their kin and someone from the white community.

Sometimes, the families of the partners display rejection, resistance, hostility and lack of acceptance for their kin's partner.

For a decade, Texas Ranger Lefty Enright (Hopper) has sought to avenge the brutal murder of his kin by the cannibalistic Sawyer family — Leatherface, Chop - Top, The Cook and Grandpa.

Arlo's kin behave much like the frontier family on an old TV western, valuing self - sufficiency, hard work and bonds of kinship above all else.

Discord begins from the moment Jason's outspoken mother Pam (a good Loretta Devine) arrives, upset she and her kin have been picked up by a chauffeur and not family.

His mentor for the job is the jaded Tony (Harrelson), who survives by maintaining his distance from the families: «Don't touch the NOK» (next of kin), he tells Will.

Sharing among families, clans and kin forms a large part of Indigenous culture.

This includes fathers, mothers, grandparents, kith and kin caregivers, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered) parents, guardians, expectant parents, teen parents, and families with diverse structures that include multiple relationships with significant others.»

To assess the involvement of families in the lives of college students, her dissertation triangulates three sets of data: in - depth interviews with Black undergraduate men and women, their mothers who act as links to other kin, and college personnel, who are on the «front line» interacting with families, in a wide - range of on - campus offices to obtain an institutional perspective on the ways such offices either bridge the gap or separate families, students, and the university.

My research questions are: 1) What do college students give to their families and how do they understand their familial expectations, responsibilities, and the support they give to kin?

I argue that Black students» responsibilities to their mothers, fathers, and other extended and fictive kin create tradeoffs they must navigate as they try to juggle the demands of college with ongoing demands from family.

The number of passengers — and that's not even counting the employees and family members that drop off and / or pick up their kins — that walked through the airport in 2008 was a staggering 34.73 million, so you know that this airport is no slouch when it comes to human traffic.

- Daniel Torday, author of The Last Flight of Poxl West «Like absolutely nothing I've read before, Levinson's brilliantly unsettling, fiercely funny novel takes on both dangerous intolerance in the near - future world, and in the confines of one wildly destructive family, where ties tighten like nooses and kith and kin can become like warring political systems.

That land was in our family for generations and Grandmaw and my great - aunts loved it as good as they did any of their kin.

We were friends with the greatest families in the land, we were the favorites of the king, kin to the queen.

But in the meantime, the people in that place, they live in constant and overwhelming danger, but they have a job, they have families, they form relationships, they have a sense of clan and kin.

Because most pet owners consider their pets to be family members, ensuring that four - legged relations are eating the same quality foods as their human kin is significant, said Jessica Holtz, senior manager, sales and marketing effectiveness, at Petcurean Pet Nutrition in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.

Not only does Canine Distemper affect dogs but it affects other animals such as ferrets, seals, mink, weasels and their kin among the Mustelidae family as well as raccoons, pandas and other members of the Procyonidae family.

If the dog or its close kin are bred, avoid mates who have PHPV / PTVL or have a family history of it.

The Public Administrator may handle the estates of those who die in Yolo County without next of kin in California, without a Will, when the family is unable to act, or when ordered by the Court.

I've rescued every immediate and not - so - immediate member of my family, and uncovered treasure after treasure after treasure from maps these close kin disclosed to my possession in gratitude for their freedom.