Sentences with phrase «mothers were themselves children»

Most of these teen - age mothers were themselves children of unmarried mothers.

If mothers are children's first teachers, we must support mothers as much as we can so they feel confident and empowered.

The law assumes that the birth mother is a child's legal parent.

Thus, for example, if a father is a child's primary caregiver, that fact will be given the same weight as it would if a mother is a child's primary caregiver.

The court found that these attempts at parental alienation weighed against mother being the children's sole custodian.

Not exact matches

South Korean intelligence reports believe her to be 28 and a mother to three children, however the North Korea's secretive government has not confirmed that information.

Your mother may have warned you not to walk and chew gum at the same time, but when Schaefer compared the performance of both children and young adults on a standard test of working memory when they were sitting with when they were walking, her results contradicted mom's advice.

Blackburn conducted research focused on mothers caring for children with autism and other chronic conditions, and found that moms who were more resilient to stress — perceiving their situation as a challenge, rather than something hopeless or overwhelming — kept their telomeres longer.

For my part I am sixth of seven children and, reasoning that anything more than five children are spares, my mother would always tell me «if a stranger offers you a ride; you take it; you never know how long it will be before another stranger comes along.»

Holly Branson is a doctor, philanthropist, wife, mother — and the oldest child of billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson.

A highly agreeable mother might become downright disagreeable when dealing with hospital bureaucracy if she feels her child's health is at stake.

After the birth of her first child, Mayer returned to work after two weeks, and was inundated with self - righteous tut - tutting over what her truncated leave said about the kind of mother she is.

Griffith is also the mother of six children.

«I'm an only child raised by his mother.

As a young African - American child born to a single mother in Chattanooga, Tenn., during segregation, Samuel L. Jackson has had to overcome a lot to get to where he is.

Although the dream had to be put on hold for the next several years as Ganahl adjusted to life as a single mother raising their children, she never gave up.

Instead, his mother believed it was more important for her to give her children jobs, and to provide a place in the community, where people could come together and have conversations.

While latter issues of «Fantastic Four» would depict the Invisible Woman as a capable hero and mother who dealt with complicated topics such as losing a child to a stillborn pregnancy, Alba was actually asked to hold back on all her emotional scenes.

The mother was expecting her second child at the time of the shoot, which has recently gone viral.

... And my mother, said «Oh, don't worry about it, with your imagination you'll learn to fill in all the blanks,»» explains Corcoran, who was diagnosed with dyslexia as a child.

A Moby Wrap Baby Carrier is a great way to help nurture the bond between a newborn and a mother or father and can be a great way to calm and soothe a child who is sick, colicky, or just generally upset.

As a child, Corcoran wasn't an ace student, but instead of focusing on her scholarly shortcomings, her mother chose to celebrate her imagination.

Our most immediate goal is to eradicate mother - to - child transmission by 2020, most of which is in Africa.»

And Michael McCain's divorce from Christine McCain, his wife of 30 years and the mother of his five children, was no exception.

Mair, 52, is accused of shooting and stabbing Cox, a 41 - year - old mother of two young children, in the street as she arrived for a meeting with residents in the town of Birstall.

Motherless children fare poorly; the mother, their soul, the glue, was fading away.

No one understands this like Drew Ann Long, a mother of three in Alabaster, Alabama whose middle child Caroline was born with Rhett's syndrome, and can not walk or speak.

My original reservation had been for a bulkhead seat, with no one in front, but a week before departure Qantas phoned to say that a mother with a baby and two other children had booked, and therefore I was being moved.

But claiming that children are disadvantaged when their mothers don't take a full maternity leave, however, is a little bit like claiming that being sexually active is bad for teenagers — we all want to believe that supposition is true, but the credible research so far doesn't actually support it.

The policy is a popular one for the Conservative base because it's most helpful for traditional one - income families, where one spouse, usually the mother, stays home to take care of the children.

Mothers and children were encouraged to make homemade decorations shaped like «Odin's Sun Wheel» and bake holiday cookies shaped like a loop (a fertility symbol).

«After describing their day at work, the mothers were reunited with their children.

«What's far too often neglected is that being pro-life is not simply about the unborn child, it's also about the mother,» he said in a statement.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 70 percent of mothers with children under 18 are in the workforce.

The mother and child eventually reach the border, see the newly constructed wall and their hopes to make it to America are crushed... until they see a massive wooden door in the middle of the wall — a gateway to freedom.

It's in a parent's nature to want to protect your children from the slings and arrows of life, but take this too far and you'll do your precious offspring a huge disservice, warns mother of three Jen Brown.

Around 26,000 children of Vietnamese mothers and U.S. soldier fathers were relocated to the U.S., but only 3 percent located their fathers.

Del Vecchio, one of five children, was eventually sent to an orphanage because his widowed mother couldn't care for him.

Chrisann Brennan, Jobs» first girlfriend and mother of his first child said that even in high school, Steve was «disconnected and awkward,» and that he had «a mix of genius, authenticity and emotional woodenness.»

Dr Ekzayez told TIME that it's common to find a home with one father or mother but many children from different families living there because they have lost their caregiver.

She considers her mother, who was never in the business world but raised 10 children in a two - bedroom home, one of her biggest role models.

The court granted her request but also allowed a visitation petition by the child's non-biological mother, ruling it would be inconsistent to consider the latter a parent only for purposes of paying support.

I specifically say working mothers, since when it comes to gender equity and careers, this is the battleground: children and family obligations remain the primary challenge to career success for most women.

While this disparity can be attributed to differences in careers and work hours between men and women who have children and those who do not, the report says that there is also a difference in how working mothers and fathers are perceived by management.

She is facing a gauntlet shared by black mothers, one that is in many ways far different than those that white mothers of white children must endure.

When it comes to the potential of Quebec - style child care, a 2012 academic study on the provincial system estimated it had allowed 70,000 more mothers with children under the age of 14 to hold jobs in 2008 than would have otherwise been the case.

Hence, the bottle of poison: Tan's mother was determined to grant her children a swift and relatively painless chemical end if their boat should be overtaken.

As a mother of eight and the co-owner of 100 daycare centres, Sopik's existence is devoted to children.

My mother had bought cheap knock - offs at some discount store and then tried to pass them off as the genuine article to a child that was too stupid to notice.

«My whole life has been about juggling work - life balance,» she says, handing the baby to her daughter, the child's mother, for a diaper change.