Sentences with phrase «large extended family»

I have always said I have no friends, I have an extremely large extended family of which I am so blessed for every person that comes into my life.

She is extremely close to them, her two brothers, and her very large extended family.

For the child, open adoption reinforces a true sense of being supported by many loving adults, including their adoptive and birth parents, and ideally by even larger extended families on all sides.

Gradually, however, she begins to change as she gets to know her bewilderingly large extended family and makes a friend of a distant cousin.

Additionally, China's one child per family social policy creates its own set of circumstances, including larger extended families that live together, and that dote on the youngest member of the family.

Leveraging deCODE's ability to conduct genome - wide linkage studies using large extended families from across the population, the company's scientists were able to approach anxiety as a broadly defined disorder that encompasses all of these complexities.

People like America Bracho, Ken Hardy, Makungu Akinyela, Esther Perel, Phillip Cushman, Imelda McCarthy, Nollaig Byrne, Jack Saul, Scott Miller, Allan Wade, Barry Duncan, Eduardo Villar and numerous others were invited to speak — and all became part of the Vancouver Schools larger extended family.

My parents opening their minds to an open adoption created a doorway towards a relationship with five siblings and five wonderful families,» said Alex. «To me, it was like having a wonderfully large extended family.»

Coming from a very large extended family, I always saw family parties as an opportunity to create and showcase my favorite fashion trend & outfit and became the family's go - to fashionista.

Set to hate it in Vietnam, Mai is at first selfish and solipsistic but gradually begins to change as she gets to know her bewilderingly large extended family.

I was older when my mother's mother died, but she, at the time of her death, was also in her own bedroom cared for around the clock by her large extended family.

Socially the [earth tradition] expresses itself not through impersonal bureaucracy or the isolated nuclear family but through collectives, communes, tribes and large extended families.

As Meier begins to discuss what we can know of the family of Jesus, he notes that in ancient Palestine the «family» would be a large extended family.

Rest assured, however, that at least 95 % of the many people in my large extended family and wide circle of friends here in Denver and elsewhere are going to vote Democratic, as they always do.

I have a very close immediate family and we have a large extended family.

I have a large extended family because Ah Gung, my grandfather, had 11 children, so I grew up surrounded by many aunts and uncles and close to 30 cousins.

Large extended families are very tight.

I grow up in a large extended family and very few us then, in the 50s, were breastfed.

Stella, on the other hand, comes from a large extended family of brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, assorted cousins and grandparents.

Even if a parent had to work, someone from that large extended family was always there to cheer both kids on — grandparents, uncles, aunts, you name it.

Sign me up for that smackdown:) I've always found it strange that western culture expects a woman to essentially bring up their children with no support but then again I grew up in a large extended family with some alternate views on family life.

Whether it is a family of two attempting to create a more respectful way to communicate or a large extended family trying to wrestle with complex issues around loss, distrust or a need for clearer boundaries, we are skilled at bringing people together.

Dom has a large extended family within and outside of NY.

With our large extended family, open adoption feels like a natural choice.

Do you have a large extended family or live on a block full of kids?

He said because Warren has a large extended family, she has requested no other visitors at this time.

Democratic Rep. Scott Murphy, the Democratic incumbent in NY - 20, is out with his first TV ad of the campaign season, which features his large extended family and a riff off the iconic Robert Fulghum book: «All I Ever Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten.»

People working in science and technology policy don?t form a community as much as they form a large extended family that occasionally shares holiday letters or attends family reunions.

We lived in an alley in Saigon with our large extended family; my paternal grandparents lived across the alley, while various aunts and uncles either lived with us or a few houses away.

The steps of assembling and wrapping tamales almost necessitate a large extended family to help bring the meal together.

Have a large extended family that buys gifts for everyone?

Coming from a very large extended family (40 first cousins!)

I have a large extended family that I love to death and am a...

Have a large extended family.

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Having spawned such a large extended family, Reverend Wagner discovered that he had a ready - made congregation in his own relatives.

With a large extended family living under one roof and a new baby on the way, the boys largely make up their own adventures, imaginations fueled by their grandmother (Uta Hagen) who encourages them to play «the great game,» a sort of psychic mental transference that both boys can perform at will.

When she isn't thinking about students and schools, Kari enjoys gardening, taking her dog for long walks and spending time with her large extended family.

Ever since that initial introduction, my large extended family and I have rented a house on the ocean in Nags Head for a week each summer.

I have a close - knit, large extended family.

When Dr. Adamo is not working she enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter, as well as her large extended family that all live in the area.

Dr. Spears has a large extended family in the Tulsa area.