Sentences with phrase «loss about family history»

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In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a family history of heart attacks and decimation by the Holocaust; Mark Doty, whose reflections on the art - porn movie Bijou lead to a meditation on the intersection of sex and death epitomized by the AIDS epidemic; and Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the loss of her husband and faces her own mortality.

«Come and Take It is a wonderfully written story about love, loss, and both the history of a family and a nation.»

Childhood risk factors were assessed up to 9 years of age: neurodevelopmental characteristics (perinatal insults, gross motor skills, and intelligence quotient); parental characteristics (mother's internalising symptoms, including depression and anxiety, mother — child interactions, criminal conviction history, and parental disagreement about discipline); family characteristics (number of residence changes, socioeconomic status, unwanted sexual contact, and loss of a parent); and child behaviour and temperament (inhibited or undercontrolled temperament, peer problems, and depressive symptoms).