Sentences with phrase «makes threats to a child»

Schools have responded by amending anti-bullying codes to include cyberbullying in their social media policies, anyone who makes threats to a child on the internet could be committing a criminal offence.

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After decades of hearing messages from high church officials that lesbian and gay people were a threat to humanity and a danger to children, I had to rub my eyes a few times to make sure that I was reading this new, more positive language correctly.

Brainwashing them with the bible, in turn using the threat of hell for not believing and to make them be good is child abuse.

Leaving the relationship did not provide the protection that Brryan's mother had hoped for as Stewart started to make threats, saying, «Your child is not going to live beyond the age of 5.»

The new regulations take effect Feb. 10 under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which was passed by Congress last year in response to widespread recalls of products that posed a threat to children, including toys made with lead or lead - based paint.

While it's a serious topic, keeping the conversation free from judgment or threats of punishment will make it easier for your child to discuss cigarettes with you — and even let you know if she's offered one someday.

When your child is stuck on «no,» you might get annoyed with him and make threats or force him to cooperate.

But we are making progress; we're generally more involved in our children's lives compared with dads a generation ago, who were usually expected to be breadwinners and disciplinarians only, and moms sometimes handled discipline issues with the threat, «Wait until your dad gets home.»

Nagging a child to do his homework or making repeated threats to try and motivate a child to do chores often means a parent puts in more effort than the child does to get the work done.

This program helps parents learn how to pick their battles like suggested above and make the words parents say to their children actually worthwhile and not empty threats.

Without realizing it, adults teach bullying behavior to children by modeling it when they use the threat of their physical size or power to make children do things.

Contact the police if your child is being contacted or harassed by an adult, if any threats are made against your child, or if efforts to stop the harassment have failed.

And a child who learns how to listen to that part of them that sometimes just knows will also be more confident in making friends and moving in society as they won't see everyone as a potential threat.

Cuomo decried the rash of bomb threats to Jewish Community centers around the state and nation, promising a strong police response and questioning why anyone would make threats at facilities that offer programs for children.

James Purnell responds to talk of rolling news and children's TV channels also being under threat as corporation looks to make # 650m in savings

Calling the Albany budget crisis and its threat to rob city schools of as much as $ 600 million in state aid «the most dangerous thing this union has faced in 30 years,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the April 21 Delegate Assembly that members had to redouble their efforts to get the message out to elected officials that «children can't be made to pay for the mistakes of Wall Street.»

«Given the serious threat of graft - versus - host disease, new approaches to make stem cell transplants safer for patients remain a critical unmet need,» said Dr. Leslie Kean, the trial's principal investigator and associate director of the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children's.

Corn - based cereals are almost always made with GMO corn, which has many scientists very concerned about long term health threats, since there are no long term studies on the effects of GMO corn to your health, as well as your children's health.

Marvel's struggle to make fight scenes more than the cinematic equivalent of a child bashing their action figures together does tend to prevail, though a few sequences are well - choreographed enough to ensure boredom isn't ever a real threat.

In order to make this journey more perilous, screenwriter Carlos Kotkin inserts a new «villain» presence — an evil henchman sent by King Herod to track down the couple and kill the unborn child, who Herod sees as a threat to his throne.

Caputo - Pearl sees this as a threat to UTLA's very existence, which makes it strange when his two national affiliates may both end up supporting Clinton, who once said, «I stand behind the charter school / public school movement, because parents do deserve greater choice within the public school system to meet the unique needs of their children.»

Rachel Burrows, of the parenting website Netmums, said a fine or threat of jail could be enough to make parents understand the seriousness of their child missing school.

And while the struggle continues to make our public schools more equitable and just for every child, we must also celebrate and protect those aspects that are now under threat by privatization, disinvestment, and resegregation.

If someone is making threats, blackmailing your child, or if it becomes sexual in nature, it's time to involve local law enforcement.

The fact that the dog is uncomfortable or even feeling a threat and the proximity of the child's face to the dog's teeth makes this potentially very dangerous.

If a root cause of the global threats on humanity's horizon now is the unbridled growth of absolute global human population numbers, our willful denial of this primary cause could make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the children to reasonably address and sensibly overcome these threats.

He previously emphasized at the Democratic National Convention that global warming was «not a hoax», referred to recent droughts and floods as «a threat to our children's future», and pledged to make the climate a second - term priority.

And in the area where currently division runs deepest, protecting the environment and addressing global warming, I find myself agreeing with President Obama that our country must take strong action to reduce pollution from fossil fuels that fouls our air, makes our water impure, and helps to create one of the greatest threats to our children's future, climate change.

Young children can not be responsible for themselves or their actions, therefore parents and caretakers must make sure to always be on the lookout for potential threats to their kids» safety.

At present, the bulk of public services seem to me to be delivered at one of three points in people's involvement with the law: general public legal information delivered through seminars, workshops and pamphlets to people who are idly grazing for legal information or helping a friend; narrowly - focused legal information, advice and representation delivered to individuals at the moment of crisis, often following separation, a threat to take the children or service of process; or, detailed, concrete legal information and advice delivered to individuals who are well engaged in a proceeding, usually unrepresented by counsel, and are seeking details about specific issues, such as making or replying to an application, demanding or making disclosure or preparing for trial.

After having reviewed the two statements of the complainant and obtaining email and text communications between J.M. and the complainant for the days leading up to the alleged charges, it was obvious that threats were being made by the complainant to seek sole custody of the children and the complainant was being very demeaning in his remarks to J.M. Extensive materials were provided to the Crown including many of the communications between the parties.

Sometimes, however, these instruments of fun and education may pose serious threats to young children if they are improperly made or not intended for use by children under a certain age.

You should note that this section does not need to be complied with if you would like to make or vary an order because there is a threat of serious harm or violence towards your child.

Spend as much time as you can with the kids, stay with the kids as much as possible If you have children, do not leave the family residence Do NOT allow your spouse to take the children and leave Keep a journal of all threats, incidents, contact with the children and other significant events Make copies of all important financial and business records for the...

Significant advances have been made in assessment methods and age - appropriate diagnostic criteria for emotional disorders in young children.29 - 31 Differentiation between symptoms of individual anxiety disorders (e.g., separation anxiety, generalized anxiety) has been found as early as two years of age.6 One novel assessment tool for children aged 3 - 5, the Preschool Anxiety Scale — Revised, captures these various dimensions of anxiety symptoms.32 In addition, attentional bias to threat has been identified as a possible candidate for assessment of risk for anxiety disorders.33

If all of the realistic plans have been addressed and the child is still making threats of suicide I would both get a psychiatric eval to see if meds are appropriate and have the kid hospitalized if s / he either can not or will not sign and keep a thorough no - self - injury contract.»

If the content is sexual, targeted at your child's ethnicity, gender, disability or sexuality, if threats are being made to harm your child or incite your child to harm themselves, then consider reporting the activity to the police.

Consider the following: children, your career status and ability to make money, finances, lifestyle changes, cost of divorce, being single again ant the threat of sexually transmitted diseases once you're back on the dating circuit.

Other means of abuse are using the children to maintain control, such as threatening to take children away or using the children to relay messages to the other parent; using economic abuse such as not allowing one partner to know about or have access to family income or giving an allowance and expecting receipts for all purchases; using emotional abuse such as putting one partner down, making them feel crazy or making them feel guilty for other's inappropriate behavior; using threats and coercion to make one partner drop charges or do illegal acts.

New research — made available for the first time in this third edition of «Why Marriage Matters» — suggests that the rise of cohabiting households with children is the largest unrecognized threat to the quality and stability of children's lives in today's families.

If that child as he gets older makes the decision that this is not someone that they want to have a relationship with then that is their choice but you should not decide that for them at a young age unless this is a person who poses a danger or a threat to them.

[** hostile - aggressive parenting, enmeshment, intrusive parenting, intractable hostilities, high conflict, etc.] The recent rise of lucrative PAS therapies, including Warshak's Bridges program, residential camps, court - ordered custody - switches based on Gardner's threat therapy ideas, various reunification therapies (for which there are no adequately researched protocols), and other ad - hoc money - making practices of many psychologists who for a fee profess to offer services that will engineer affectionate relationships between estranged parents and non-compliant children, veer uncomfortably close at times in theory and some of their practices to the dangerous, cultic and discredited «attachment» therapies of decades past, i.e. in many cases, they are child abuse.

New research — made available for the first time in Why Marriage Matters — shows that the rise of cohabiting households with children is the largest unrecognized threat to the quality and stability of children's lives in today's families.

The law in all 50 states is designed to encourage reports by providing immunity (see Part VI in the Making the Tough Call series), but also through threats of punishment if a mandated reporter fails to report suspected child maltreatment.