Sentences with phrase «life than their parents»

Productivity — the ability to eke out sustained gains in wages and profits — is the thing that determines whether you have a better standard of living than your parents, whether your children live more comfortably than you.

Notwithstanding rising life expectancy and declining workplace pension coverage, most Canadians working today can look forward to a longer retirement with a better quality of life than their parents.

Like most graduation speakers my main qualification would seem to be that I am one of the few people who are even more clueless about what is going on in your lives than your parents and your professors.

So if we don't take action now, today's kids and tomorrow's workers will be the first generation in history to live shorter lives than their parents, not due to war but to complications from diabetes.

The curse of plentiful rich food may mean that young Australians become the first generation in a long time to live shorter lives than their parents.

What happens when people raised in relative ease and who expect to live an even better life than their parents are left emotionally unequipped for reality?

In addition, 29 per cent believe that today's youth will have a better quality of life than their parents, compared with 43 per cent in 2003.

Yes, they are the first generation in our lifetimes who don't believe it's possible to have a better life than their parents.

«This is the first generation expected to live shorter and less healthy lives than their parents.

Millennials purchase homes much later in life than their parents did, and often those homes are significantly smaller than the suburban mansions once so highly prized.

Throughout history, responsible parents have turned to adoption when they wanted their child / ren to have security and stability in life than the parent themselves could offer, due to their lifestyle or age or economic circumstances.

Not exact matches

Many argue that what emotionally fragile undergrads need to develop some grit, Brooks writes, is to take a few more lumps early in life, rather than being constantly protected by helicopter parents.

Unless you're living in a society with arranged marriages, however, this is much more about your children's choices than anything you can do for them as a parent.

Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

Your parents or grandparents worked in vastly different times than we live in today.

Students shouldn't borrow more in loans than they'll make in their first year of employment, said Jeff Selingo, author of «There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow.»

By the time he's done, it's hard to dispute his conclusion, based on hard facts, that «America's kids will live far better than their parents did.»

The change could affect the more than 4 million US citizen children under 18 who live with at least one undocumented parent, as well as the approximately 1 million more so - called «dreamers» who were brought the US by their parents as children and remain undocumented.

You should live 20 years longer than your parents.

Aging baby boomers will retire but stick around (among the living) longer than their parents.

Citing studies on the early lives of heroes who rescued people from the Holocaust and highly creative architects, Grant suggests parents «help children think about the consequences of their action for others,» rather than simply yelling «no!».

So before you make 100K, you must live at your parents house and after, I guess you don't live an interesting life with less than 1K / month in NYC or San Francisco?

Today, through a range of services that include life insurance, annuities, and retirement plans, Transamerica and its parent company operate in more than 20 markets worldwide, continuing to help clients secure their financial futures.

Stuck in this broken system, Millennials are the first generation who expect their own lives to be worse than the lives of their parents.

As a result, too many British Columbians are living paycheque to paycheque — worried about their jobs, worried about whether they can afford to retire and believing their kids are in B.C's first generation to be left worse off economically than their parents.

And, yes, America's kids will live far better than their parents did.»

Due to the financial crisis and then the ensuing spike in real estate prices that priced many first - time homebuyers out of the market, young people are living with their parents longer than ever before.

Surveys continue to find that Millennials prefer different living styles than their baby boomer parents.

For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an «Internet treasure» — a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents and becomes something we couldn't live without.

In Parkland, «while the students and parents speaking up were no more passionate than the young people of, say, the Black Lives Matter movement, it was clear that the political establishment was going to receive them a different way,» New Yorker contributor Emily Witt noted last week.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

Millennials are poorer than their parents, and it restricts where we live, how we interact with our friends and how much of the world we can see.

Personally, I can not imagine a worse judgement for sin than to have my children brutally murdered, and the greatest gift of this life (being a parent) taken away from me.

Older members of my parish reported their sense that the standards by which they had struggled to live their lives had been betrayed, and parents were less than grateful.

Much of the fear that new parents face is that life will never be about anything other than kid.

Will traditional marriage follow the path of preborn life — an issue moving from judicial activism and socially elite proclamations that a generational shift was «inevitable» and «the debate is over» to our day decades later where the youngsters are more right minded about abortion than their parents.

If we need to explain to you how life is truly created, than the education system and your parents have failed horribly.

At the time, the decisions to become a philosopher and to become Catholic had absolutely nothing to do with each other, other than the fact that they were major life decisions I was making behind my parents» backs.

Less desirable in the eyes of her parents than a male child, a girl stayed close to her mother, but her father controlled her life until he relinquished her to another man for marriage.

The most loving thing a parent can do is to let its child go freely and in a timely manner, rather than to hang on, demanding obeisance, attention, obedience and such throughout that child's life.

Using the «potential» argument, would it be less of a crime to end your life than the lives of my parents?

Beside that it is not like that named self as» «pre-ci-se»» proving him self ig - nor - ant but it is that Muslims merry more than wife and not believe in birth control as to the number of children they get, they consider ab - or - tion is a sin... and believe that each child is born, comes to life along with his sub-sis-ten-ce and that God provide that for him and that parents should not fear poverty or the in - abil - ity to support...!

It is they, perhaps more than schoolteachers and parents, who set the intellectual and moral tone of the society and suggest the values that shall govern the conduct of life.

Ask yourself, what middle - class parent in America today supposes that her authority over the crucial details of her child's life is nothing more than a revocable delegation from New Mexico or the feds?

First of all to my parents, my father, Remus Muray, and my mother, Marianna Muray, for their part in bringing me into the world, and their love, understanding, and encouragement throughout my life; to John Cobb, my theological «godfather» who first introduced me to process thought, and to whose friendship, inspiration, encouragement, and intellectual stimulation I am more grateful than I could ever express; to David Griffin, who taught me how to think critically; to Jay McDaniel and Kevin Clark for their enduring friendship since our student days and perpetually intellectual stimulating conversations; Nancy Howell, without whose encouragement this project may not have been undertaken; William Dean, whose work has proved to be so liberating; to David and Rosanne Keller, for their friendship, the opportunity to work and play with them, and for their living relationally; Josephine Bates, for her friendship, encouragement, and support in this endeavor; the Rt..

Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

I can imagine no greater anguish than making a choice defined by those two sentiments; I am in awe of the many parents that have made it on behalf of life, even knowing the consequences.

But the Lord had chosen a mother for that baby, and a child for that mother — nothing is more loving, our friends found, than helping a parent to receive the Father's gift of life.

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.