Sentences with phrase «male children of»

Male children of divorce are more likely to engage in risky behavior and have higher rates of injury and death

However, many of these early public institutions limited enrollment to male children of white families; girls and people of color generally were barred.

He was the seventh out of the eleven male children of his father, the late Mr. Rudolph Mawuli Kobla Tamakloe.

Since women outnumbered men at that time because Pharoah killed the male children of the Hebrews (remember Moses was slotted for this demise as a newborn infant), polygamy was a way to ensure women survived.

But there was mourning aplenty anyway, for just before his death Herod had slain all the male children of Bethlehem two years old and younger in an effort to kill the little Messiah whose identity the Wise Men had withheld from him.

Or like killing the first born male child of a major city?

Not exact matches

After two years of work, that number stayed the same for male employees — but for women, it dropped to 16 %, regardless of whether they were married or had children.

«Being a female in an all - male shop, I kind of got these eyes on me when I had to take time off for child care purposes.»

Female veterans are more likely to have children to take care of than male veterans, says James Schmeling, co-founder of Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families, making it harder for them to find and hold down a job.

The research out of Beijing Normal University studied the effects of anger by asking 73 male volunteers to memorize pairs of faces and unsettling images, like injuries or crying children.

The marketplace company just announced it's offering all employees — male and female — 26 weeks of fully paid leave when a child joins the family.

In a study published this year that tracked Best Buy's ROWE program, researchers at the University of Minnesota found that, while it had helped reduce employee turnover, women who took part still spent 10 hours more on child care per week than their male flextime colleagues.

Previous investigations have indicated that the ratio of sex offenders against female children vs. offenders against male children is approximately 2:1, while the ratio of gynephiles to androphiles among the general population is approximately 20:1.

There are plenty of male stars who have gone from cute child star to provocative adult, but no one cares because female sexuality = bad, male sexuality = good.

This, of course, would not indicate that androphilic males have a greater propensity to offend against children.

Of course they are going to «struggle» in the sense that they are males with a sex drive, and they will notice beautiful women and be attracted to them, but there's no need to condition my little boys to notice every time a woman is dressed «immodestly,» as I was as a child, pointing out «inappropriately dressed» women at the beach in bikinis, or drawing attention to every hint of cleavage, bare midriffs or even tight pantOf course they are going to «struggle» in the sense that they are males with a sex drive, and they will notice beautiful women and be attracted to them, but there's no need to condition my little boys to notice every time a woman is dressed «immodestly,» as I was as a child, pointing out «inappropriately dressed» women at the beach in bikinis, or drawing attention to every hint of cleavage, bare midriffs or even tight pantof cleavage, bare midriffs or even tight pants.

The Decline of Males, his 1999 book, was particularly controversial among feminists for its argument that female contraceptives had altered the balance between the sexes in disturbing new ways (especially by taking from men any say in whether they could have children).

kendallpeak Your att.itude only made sense in a male - dominated world where women couldn't much hope for a life outside of producing children and keeping house.

I doubt they will tell their children they are celebrating the event of their God sending the Angel of Death to passover non-believers homes and kill the first born male child.

If you don't believe that, you most believe otherwise.which means that you believe that all mothers gave birth to children without the need of a human male.

Male child soldiers are forced to rape under threat of death as part of their initiation, while in other cases men are rewarded for displays of brutality.

«Due to the stereotype that pe - dophiles are always male, it has been difficult to determine the prevalence of female ped - ophiles; however, studies in the UK and USA suggest that a range of 5 % to 20 % of child se - xual abuse offenses are perpetrated by women.

The ministers» perceptions of their parishioners» expectations include the burdensome feeling that the minister is supposed to be all things to all people; that he or she will be available 24 hours per day, including days off and vacation times; that the spouse will be a willing volunteer; that the family will love the parsonage, whatever its condition; and that the ideal minister is a young but vastly experienced white male with a homemaker spouse and two or three lovely and well - behaved children.

In the United States, the abuse was primarily s — exual in nature and involved mostly boys between the ages of 11 and 17; in Ireland, the allegations involved both physical and s — exual abuse, and children of both s — exes were involved, although a large majority were male.

Fear of it is used to perpetuate a status quo where men hold power and women stay in their place, to foster the notion that women are like children who need to be protected by male - dominated laws and institutions.

'» While the feminine participle «omeneth refers to a woman who nurses a child (2 Sam 4:4; Ruth 4:16) the masculine participle «omen can simply designate a male «guardian,» «attendant,» or «foster father» of children (i.e., someone who cares for all their needs), as the very example cited by the rabbi from Isa 49:23 indicates (so also 2 Kings 10:1, 5).

This instance constitutes either a generic usage (like Greek pais «child» for both male and female) or an orthographic variation in which the use of the final — h to indicate a feminine «a» is optional.

Because of their equality both males and females can be baptized and share in the Eucharist, and must be treated as equally responsible children of God.

The court would have to dismiss the moral argument that marriage as an ideal should be aimed toward the raising of children with male and female parents.

And in several weddings over the past few years, I've heard the officiating ministers (all of them male) warn young brides to avoid «letting themselves go» after having children or else their husbands might be tempted to «look elsewhere.»

To review: In their letters to the early church, the apostles Peter and Paul include what you might call a Christian remix of the traditional Greco - Roman household codes, which detailed the responsibilities of a male head - of - house, his wives, slaves, and adult children (see Ephesians 5, Colossians 3, and 1 Peter 3).

Not only would the male head - of - house have authority over his younger children, but also his grown children, who were to submit to his will even after they had families of their own.

And the result of their visit is that Mary and Joseph are forced to flee with the child Jesus into Egypt to escape Herod's threatened slaughter of young male children.

Leviticus 18:21, 22, and 23 are therefore primarily a series of three commands against Molek Worship: a heterosexual couple giving their child over to an altar of fire; the heterosexual man going to one room in the shrine, and mounting a male shrine prostitute; the heterosexual woman going to the shrine's stable, and presenting herself to an animal in a sexual manner.

The situation could become even more dramatic because the one - child policy has led to a grotesque distortion of the male - female ratio among young Chinese adults.

«The most important moral and legal rule concerning the physiological side of kinship,» he wrote in Sex, Culture, and Myth, «is that no child should be brought into the world without a man — and one man at that — assuming the role of sociological father, that is, guardian and protector, the male link between the child and the rest of the community.»

... as you stated in another post «By inspiring the human authors to write what they did, God made it look like He was the one responsible for the actions of Israel, the destruction of the flood, the murder of the firstborn males of Israel, and the slaughter of Canaanite women and children.

He confirmed that «The John Jay report has revealed clearly that the crisis in the Church is not one of paedophilia, but of homosexuality,» and that «the primary victims have not been children, but adolescent males.»

Half of gay males experience a negative reaction from parents when they come out, and in 26 % of those cases, the gay child is thrown out of the home.

But if there is no meaningful difference between a male — female couple conceiving a child naturally and same - sex couples conceiving children through surrogates and various technological means, then it follows that nothing of ontological significance attaches to natural motherhood and fatherhood or to having a father and a mother.

Under Sharia, a male child belongs to the father after the age of seven, regardless of circumstances.»

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

Hutchinson, a mother of 15 children, dared to challenge the male Calvinist clergy about whether they were being true to their theological convictions on questions of grace.

The ethos of dependency requires direct attention of the kind given by the Urban League and the Children's Defense Fund in their media campaign to discourage young ghetto males from fathering children they can not Children's Defense Fund in their media campaign to discourage young ghetto males from fathering children they can not children they can not support.

She was to depend for her reputation, and maybe for her life, on the good will of an untested male who knew that he was not the father of the child.

And they are made aware of the consequences for their children — now and hereafter — of their failure to hearken to the call: «And the uncircumcised male... that soul shall be cut off from his people: he hath broken My covenant» (17:14).

Murray comes up with a very useful measure of community dysfunction: the percentage of «problematic people,» which he arrives at by combining prime - age males not making a living, single mothers raising children, a guesstimate of prime - age adults who are living alone, and those uninvolved in any community activity.

Unfortunately, they don't have the sense of autonomy that would lead them to refuse sex if their own life - chances (as well as those of their as - yet - unborn children) are in danger of being damaged by male reluctance to use the simple means of contraception readily available.

Colleague of mine, a pastor who is expecting a child, had a male pastor come up to her at a conference and ask to lay hands on her belly and bless her unborn child.

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.