Sentences with phrase «lone child»

There is no purity to any member of this traveling band (save maybe one lone child), not even Rosalie, and even though after she joins them all the walls between the soldiers and their Cheyenne charges start to come down, that does not mean this grieving widow still doesn't make choices that are as uncomforting as they are problematical.

A lone child in a deserted city street is hunted by one of the aliens.

It's an unsettling image that of the lone child's cries carrying on into the night as the tide will only get worse.

I am a single mother, now protecting my lone child... It is big and older than time, and I can not give her the answer I deserve, having been away from dating for 11 years now, shut - off from the very idea.

am very outgoing, communicative, easy going, outspoken, I am also a very Romantic type, love to cuddle, hold hands while walking, I'm trustworthy so far as people tell me maybe I'm just laid back, lol... I also tend to have a good heart with so much of love to give and to receive.I am a lone child as well.I love watching Movies, Television, listening to Music, Singing, Reading, Writing poems, Swimming, playing Basketball.I seek for a complete honest Woman, who will come home to me, love me, adore me, a strong Woman with a strong heart who will want our relationship to last forever, a compassionate Woman, one with good heart and know how to handle matters, I want a lover not a fighter I've got two beautiful kids and still want to have more

The home secretary has rejected comparisons with Donald Trump after it emerged that the government is to end its commitment to provide a safe haven for thousands of vulnerable lone child refugees in Europe.

Robert Goodwill, the immigration minister, told MPs in a written ministerial statement on Wednesday that one further group of 150 lone child refugees are to be brought to Britain but they will be the last to be transferred under the scheme.

«It is not insulting other European countries to offer to help; they want us to help... Stop with his attitude with lone child refugees, putting this House and country to shame.»

We received just three per cent of asylum claims made by lone children across Europe last year.

Moreover, the charity is concerned lone children may be unable to make their case for asylum, making it more likely they are rejected.

Protection of child refugees to be debated by Labour conference on Wednesday in hope of speeding arrival of lone children from Calais in UK

Not exact matches

Not long after 20 young children and 6 adults were gunned down by a lone assailant at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut the U.S. Senate also rejected tighter background check legislation.

This included a letter to Children and Families Minister Sarah Teather — who had blocked the enactment of joint birth registration, despite it already being on the statute books as part of the 2009 Welfare Reform Act — a legislative change for which the Fatherhood Institute has campaigned long and hard (often as a lone voice and in the face of opposition from other quarters).

Recognising this, Harker (2006) has recommended a «New Deal for Parents» package which would reflect fathers» increasing involvement in children's lives and make available to them the package of employment support currently provided only to (lone) mothers.

Mothers who don't work are mainly lone or otherwise disadvantaged mothers, for whom their own or a child's illness / disability or the cost of childcare are major reasons for their non-employment (Hales et al, 2007).

Dadcando is a fantastic web - based resource for all dads, but with a special emphasis on helping lone dads and fathers who have contact with their children but do not live with them full - time.

One lone parent complaining about junk food in their child's school can be easily dismissed as some sort of «crazy health nut.»

Innovators such as York One Parent Families now regard these men as «forgotten lone parents» who need backing if their children are to thrive.

• For these and other reasons, although children in mother - stepfather families tend to experience better financial support than children in lone mother households, and their stepfathers tend to be of higher «quality» than their biological fathers in terms of education, employment, psychopathology etc. (McLanahan et al, 2006) their outcomes and adjustment are not superior to children in lone mother households, although there may be cultural variations.

Furthermore, policies that wittingly or unwittingly entrench mothers as primary carers and fathers as earners have consequences further down the line: when today's happy housewife becomes tomorrow's low skilled lone mum and pension - poor retiree; and today's confident breadwinner becomes tomorrow's angry divorced dad, with a tangential relationship with his children and substantially reduced care from them as he approaches old age.

• Children (particularly boys) in lone mother households tend to have more conflictual relationships with their mothers and to receive less emotional support, cognitive stimulation, supervision and involvement from them (for review, see Jaffee et al, 2003).

For example, many lone mothers ring Parentline because their children have insufficient contact with their father, while many fathers ring because they feel mothers deny them contact or poison their children against them.

Companies attempt to marginalise IBFAN as a lone critic of their marketing practices, but many other organisations such as Save the Children and UNICEF have called for change.

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.

i don't think the list will scare off young / new mamas, i think some may actually learn something other than how to detach and may finally realize they are not a lone in their desire to care for their child in a certain way.

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Child poverty reduced dramatically between 1998/9 -2010 / 12 when 1.1 million children were lifted out of poverty (BHC).9 This reduction is credited in large part to measures that increased the levels of lone parents working, as well as real and often significant increases in the level of benefits paid to families with children.

«Overall we have considerable reservations about the proposals, both in terms of their potentially negative impacts, and their potential to improve the situation of lone parents and their families, and to reduce child poverty,» said Sir Richard Tilt, head of the committee.

Starting from today lone parents whose children are aged 12 or over will be forced to actively seek work for a minimum of 16 hours per week or risk losing 40 per cent of their benefit.

Rubbing salt in the wound to lone parents, as MPs were making their points the government was entertaining pop stars at Downing Street in one of the parties on which, since taking office, it has spent more than will be saved next year by the Child Benefit element of the cuts.

This meeting on 11 November succeeded in coalescing representatives of major lone parent and child poverty organisations — despite some reluctance on the part of one of the major charities because of political sympathies with Blair by leading individuals — national trade unions, women's officers, local government anti-poverty organisations and MPs.

Clare Tickell, chief executive of Children's charity NCH, welcomed the assurance that benefits would not be cut but said forcing lone parents into work was not the answer either.

She added: «It is also essential to remember that for some lone families work may not be the best option, for example, families with disabled children.

Those hit hardest by the new universal credit rules will be lone parents, disabled people and couples with children who rent their home rather than have a mortgage.

But today two million lone parents are looking after three million children.

In 1979, 50 per cent of lone parents on Supplementary Benefit (the forerunner of Income Support) received child maintenance.

«Now the government looks set to betray these families by writing off uncollected debt.Now is the time for a pragmatic approach to get money flowing to the lone parents and children who rely on these payments.»

«And we will expect lone parents to look for work when their youngest child goes to school,» Mr Osborne said.

The data showed that nearly half of single - parent children are poor, with a noticeable surge in poverty over the past year among children of lone parents who work full - time.

Osborne had already announced he would freeze the basic element of the working tax credit; yesterday he said the lone parent and child elements would also be frozen instead of uprated in line with inflation, saving the Treasury # 290m a year by 2013.

Families with children but no earner (both lone parents and couples) are particularly hard hit and will lose on average 3.8 % of their weekly income.

«Universal credit will ensure that the vast majority of children will be lifted out of poverty if at least one parent works 35 hours a week at the minimum wage — or 24 hours if they are a lone parent,» he added.

So if your child has a brown dog tick, a Rocky Mountain wood tick, or a lone star tick (Baby S's buddy), you don't have to worry about Lyme disease.

The authors of the new paper estimate that an additional 3 million guns were sold nationwide from December 2012 through April 2013, the 5 - month window immediately before and for several months after a lone gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook on 14 December.

Consider this - one in eight families are parented by single moms, 10 % of children live in stepfamilies and lone - parent families account for 14 % of Canadian familial households.1 In other words, if you are a single parent, you're far from alone — there are thousands in the same boat, many of whom are looking to get back into dating and find a committed relationship with a partner who understands their situation.

Dependent Children 1 in 4 in lone - parent families, National Statistics Online, National Statistics, United Kingdom, July 7, 2005, retrieved 17 July 2006.

A single parent (also lone parent and sole parent) is a parent who cares for one or more children without the assistance of another parent in the home.

When they discover a lone, traumatized child nearby, they're scared.

Along the way the captain's troop (Jonathan Majors, Rory Cochrane, Timothée Chalamet) encounters a woman (Rosamund Pike) who is the lone survivor of a massacre that killed her husband and three children.

The film also expresses the underlying theme of isolation: the lone bluebird, an abandoned child, a small community surrounded by mountains, and a single parent.