Sentences with phrase «many children from their families»

«It's not just that we are taking these children from their families — which is bad enough — but once we do, we're not giving them the kind of care we would demand for our own children.
Once the residential schools fell out of favour, the governments slowly began to close them and instead opted to take indigenous children from their families to place them to be fostered and adopted by non-indigenous families.
Teachers should seek by every means to compensate for status factors imported by children from their families.
I am referring to Catholic schools which do not regard the Church's social and moral teaching as pillars of education, and those which include a significant number of children from families which are nominally Catholic, non-Catholic, broken, lacking in child supervision or neglectful.
Nine - year - old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested Friday morning... An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995.
Children from these families tend to be more rebellious, defiant, have low persistence, and more antisocial behaviours when compared to their peers.
The idea is to gradually wean your child from the family bed, so she doesn't feel as if she's being abruptly kicked out (and by the people she loves most in the world!).
A spokesperson told me last week, «We continue to be committed to publishing magazines that allow all children to see themselves in our pages, including children from families headed up by a grandparent or single parent, adoptive families, blended families, families with same - sex parents, multi-generational families, and multi-racial families.»
In his book The Myth of the First Three Years, Bauer is mostly skeptical of public policy that focuses on «educating» children, which often involves taking children from their families and placing them in a «more stimulating» environment in the first three years of life.
Otherwise, only children from families who can pay for «real food» will get it.
So, when a child from a family with a history of anxiety disorders, witnesses a traumatic incident, she has a higher chance of developing an anxiety problem than others who have no family history of mental illnesses.
This article won't discuss the timing of weaning your child from your family bed.
In that paper, the NABSW equated the removal of African American children from their families of origin — and their placement in white homes — with «cultural genocide.»
There really is not right or wrong way to transition your child from your family bed, and into his own bed, although most families do find that starting small helps.
The agency includes enrollees in the Children's Health Insurance Program, which insures children from families with incomes too high for Medicaid but too low to buy insurance.
Although Obama labels his plan «universal,» it would be targeted at children from families below 200 percent of federal poverty guidelines.
Armed groups worldwide have developed a grim routine: abduct children from their families, inure them to abuse and «promote» them into combat
Research indicates that children from families of low socioeconomic status (SES) have fallen more than six months behind their more advantaged cohorts in language processing and proficiency skills by the time they are two years old.
On the other hand, children from families with lower incomes and with less educated parents tend to be under - vaccinated because they lack access to resources.
However, researchers found that this birth order effect changed dramatically when looking at children from families whose parents were already entrepreneurial.
Children from families with post-secondary education had scores that averaged two points higher, enough to be statistically significant.
Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.
It allowed the researchers to successfully predict which children from the family would eventually develop diabetes.
Children from families with a strong and positive family culture tend to do better on tests, feel more secure, and are more likely to come to their parents when they have a problem.
Freya, in her chilly retreat, also kidnaps — or, in her words, saves — children from their families and forces them to be part of her army, which is where Hemsworth's Huntsman, who's been given a name (Eric), has his forbidden romance with Sara (Chastain), who's his equal on the battlefield.
But these improvements were only for elementary school — aged children from families that used restricted MTO vouchers (see sidebar above).
Andrew Kelly of the American Enterprise Institute notes that of children from families in the bottom third of household income, a mere 14 percent of children will complete four - year degrees.
Next, we adapted this educational intervention for low birth - weight and premature children in the Infant Health and Development Program, conducted in eight cities with 985 participants, and found benefits in all eight cities, with the greatest benefits for children from families with the lowest levels of parent education.
The legislation also loosened the eligibility rules to include children from families with incomes up to 230 percent of the poverty level.
One in 10 lower - income children (that is, children from families earning less than $ 30,000) has a video iPod or similar device in the home, according to Common Sense Media, compared to one in 3 of upper - income children (those from families earning more than $ 75,000).
Children from families with few resources or low income but who have been provided with a good home learning environment are just as likely to do well at school as children from better - resourced homes.
Even in kindergarten and first grade classrooms, minority children from families of lower socioeconomic status (SES) are less likely to attend schools that provide computer access in their classrooms than children in the highest SES groups.
Children from families with incomes at or below 130 percent of the poverty level are eligible for free meals.
The consultation shows 36 % of places are taken by children from families with below - average incomes but not receiving free meals, compared with 53 % of places taken by families with above - average incomes.
As they point out, Head Start programs, by their very design, are largely restricted to children from families below the poverty line.
School divisions should work with private school leaders to determine on the method or source of data that will be used to identify the number of eligible private school children from families residing in participating public school attendance zones.
For example, a study of one early child care program for ages 0 - 2, co-authored by Aaron Sojourner at the business school here, suggests that this program only helps children from families below 180 % of the poverty line.
The most distinctive characteristic of the Indian Residential Schools system was that it tore indigenous children from their families and left them in the care of complete and often hostile strangers — the schools» religious instructors.
The fees are assumed to be charged only to children from families in the top 40 % of the U.S. income distribution, in households with over $ 62,000 in income.
Unfortunately, educational success is not assured, especially for children from families and communities that are economically and socially distressed.
The Pupil Premium has become a vital tool for narrowing the gap for children from families with lower incomes.
The United Way of Salt Lake is getting ready to launch its annual «Stuff the Bus» campaign to help provide some 5,000 children from families with low income with their back - to - school supplies.
Preliminary analysis found that children from families living in poverty tended to have a smaller, less - developed hippocampus with fewer axonal connections with the PFC.. On further analysis, the authors determined that it wasn't poverty itself that was associated with a less - functional hippocampus.
This intiative should target especially those children from families unable to pursue (or unaware of) better opportunities.
«A child from a family with high educational attainment talks to a child using complex language skills frequently, thus children acquire oral language skills at an advanced rate,» she said.
They tend to have about half as many children from families living in poverty, with dozens of the schools located in more affluent neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley.
Children from families forced from their homes due to flooding play with donated toys at the NRG Center August 31, 2017 in Houston, Texas.
Sonic Forces is there because it's impolite to excuse one child from the family photo — even if they are a spoiled failure.
Hancock's paintings often rework Biblical stories that the artist learned as a child from his family and local church community.
We now recognize that in separating children from their families, we undermined the ability of many to adequately parent their own children and sowed the seeds for generations to follow, and we apologize for having done this.
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