Sentences with phrase «neighborhood children who»

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As they eagerly describe a young Alison staging plays in the family living room and leading neighborhood children on make - believe safaris, the subject of their recollections sits quietly, as though detached from a past that has little to do with who she is today.

I used to babysit for a child who lived in my neighborhood starting when I was 14 years old.

Drawing on the work of New York University sociologist Patrick Sharkey, Richard Florida wrote that 70 percent of black residents in America's poorest and and most segregated neighborhoods «are the children and grandchildren of those who lived in similar neighborhoods 40 years ago.»

«We feel neglected,» said Bonnie Lieberman, who is raising two children in the neighborhood.

Children not among the targeted audience: those who worry about having enough food to last through the weekend, those who wonder why their father is no longer at home, and those who must learn to avoid neighborhood violence.

It doesn't end with the priests; teenagers who were abused turned around and did the same to their siblings and neighborhood children.

They even teach their children to discriminate against non-members and my young son suffered permanent emotional damage inflicted upon him by little Mormon boys (who picked on and bullied my son in our neighborhood) who think they're going to be Gods with their own planets some day!

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

Before you head overseas to be a father to children in other parts of the world, look around your neighborhood and community today to find who needs a father.

What about the parents who never had children, and didn't have the money to adopt, and didn't qualify for foster care, but still took care of needy children in their neighborhood?

Not only because it is Afro - Americans themselves, especially men, who now inflict these wounds upon themselves — through the ways they betray those who love them and bear their progeny, through the ways they bring up or abandon their children, through the ways they relate, or fail to relate, to each other, through the values and attitudes they cherish and the ones they choose to spurn, through their comforting ethnic myths about their neighborhoods, through their self - indulgences, denials and deceits — but because only they as individual men and women can find the antidote to heal themselves.

To some observers, it appears to justify the routine sequestration of these children in the tightly segregated neighborhoods in which they dwell, because this sequestration makes it possible to localize the «special» services that are believed to be appropriate to children who are seen as being absolutely and entirely different from our own.

Where we live, most of the children who come to our door are neighborhood children, accompanied by parents.

Let's ask the numerous children and now adults who were molested by your neighborhood Priest or other people who work in Churches.

A native of New Orleans» impoverished lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, Luter was the third of five children raised by a divorced mother who worked as a seamstress and a surgical scrub assistant, according to Thom Rainier, president and CEO of the Nashville, Tennessee - based LifeWay Christian Resources and a friend of Luter's.

The only spectators are a handful of girl friends, wives and children who cheer on their heroes and after the games join them for dinner at the neighborhood pizza parlor.

From Rogers Park to Hyde Park to Lincoln Park, there are many winter concerts performed by different neighborhood choirs who are part of the Chicago Children's Choir.

Help your tween develop possible conversation starters, and encourage your child to approach children who are new at school or in the neighborhood.

Matos - Real, who grew up in Chicago's West Town neighborhood, said he wants to make certain that district programs for children «continue to be accessible.»

Interestingly, research also shows men who delay fathering children until their late 20s or early 30s, move away from the neighborhood they grew up in, and have less frequent contact with their parents, or who have been divorced and remarried, are more likely to do housework.

The Great Hope Family Center in the Little Village neighborhood provides food to about 100 families each month as well as meals for the 160 men, women and children who stay at its shelter.

Juhlin, who raised four children in Rogers Park and who now lives along Sheridan Road in Edgewater, says that although much of the neighborhood has changed — and not for the better — «you've still got the beach.»

Angel Cregan, who has spent countless hours chauffeuring her son and other neighborhood children to private skate facilities in Orland Park, Mundelein and Rockford, was told that Ald.

The three additional neighborhood stops will serve about 150 children who would otherwise go without these meals over the summer.

The children at the Fresh Foods distribution, who were not even 10 years old, were already considerably behind in terms of academic and enrichment opportunities than their peers from the more affluent neighborhood.

«You go back to him because he gets right to the point,» said Donnelly, a schoolteacher who lives in the South Shore neighborhood and has three children, ages 21, 6 and 16 months.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Children from poorer neighborhoods who are hospitalized are more likely to die before discharge than kids from wealthier areas, according to a new study.

«They've just let it go entirely,» said Kimberly Leakas, 39, the mother of two young children who moved to the neighborhood four years ago, «It's almost depressing to bring your kids there.

Alex Mack, a nanny who looks after two children in the neighborhood, said the construction netting and chicken wire that now surrounds the area where the slide once stood raises safety concerns.

Now we're able to send our children to a middle school in our neighborhood,» Debra Millman, who has a 7 - year - old at nearby P.S. 59, told DNAinfo.com New York.

«Our facility and the thousands of children who use this sports and fitness center yearly should not be used as human shields to block the garbage trucks» asthma - causing carcinogenic fumes from the rest of the neighborhood.

Critics say that solution falls short because it wouldn't cover parents who work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and would require some parents to take their children out of the neighborhood for daycare.

«In Western New York, without an active duty base, a guard or a reserve family... a lot of times a child may be the only one in a school district that has a parent who is serving, and they're the only family in the neighborhood who understands what words like deployment mean, ot TDY (temporary duty assignment), those sorts of things,» Lauer said.

«It's important that the [26 Broadway] space be used by a school serving local [students], rather than children from other neighborhoods,» said Silver, who has strongly advocated for Millennium to expand.

And while P.S. 234 did not have room for the eight additional kindergartners who moved to the neighborhood over the summer and tried to register at the last minute, even those children will not have to go to P.S. 130, Ripperger said.

The public - service novice, who has spent her entire career in media and publishing, also dropped jaws at the meeting by likening her task of satisfying space - crunch concerns in every neighborhood to making «many Sophie's Choices» — a reference to the book in which a mother in the Auschwitz death camp is forced to decide which of her two children will live.

HARLEM — When it opens next year, Broadway Housing Communities» 124 units of affordable housing and children's museum at 155th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Sugar Hill will provide the Upper Manhattan neighborhood with a much - needed boost, said city officials who broke ground on the project Thursday.

WBFO Senior Reporter Eileen Buckley talks with Buffalo News Education Reporter Tiffany Lankes, who for months has been tracking city school children facing the tragic issue of living in violent neighborhoods.

And that is why you have people elected like Ed Day because people outside of Ramapo who have not seen the growth of the religious communities in their neighborhoods yet, they still understand what's happening in East Ramapo and they know that it's fundamentally wrong that people would take over a school district who don't send their children there and then deny minority students a fair education.

At the end of the study, children who lived in neighborhoods with the highest concentrations of nitrogen dioxide and particulates had experienced greater declines in insulin sensitivity and had signs of impaired pancreatic beta cells, which produce insulin.

Sheltered as we are by Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, which deflect lethal radiation from space, we are like coddled children who have never ventured into a tough neighborhood.

Regardless, the results are worrying, she said, because children who live in poor neighborhoods are, on average, a year behind academically, according to standardized math, reading and writing assessment tests of the students.

Children who live in «smart growth» neighborhoods — developments that are designed to increase walkability and have more parks and green space areas — get 46 percent more moderate or vigorous physical activity than kids who live in conventional neighborhoods, finds a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Scientific research has shown that low - income and minority children who grow up in segregated neighborhoods and attend segregated schools have worse educational and economic outcomes than children in more integrated areas.

Owens found that neighborhood racial segregation across the country appeared to be driven largely by white families with children who are choosing, consciously or not, to move to neighborhoods and school districts with fewer minorities.

Initiated in 2005, the study follows 560 families from four disadvantaged urban areas who are at high risk for asthma to uncover potential risk factors that contribute to increased asthma rate in children growing up in impoverished neighborhoods.

October 19, 2011 Moving poor women to lower - poverty neighborhoods improves their health Low - income women with children who move from high - poverty to lower - poverty neighborhoods experience notable long - term improvements in some aspects of their health, namely reductions in diabetes and extreme obesity, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and partner institutions.

Our neighborhood is comprised of 30 - something ex-pats from the city, like us, who have children and wanted to live in a solid school district and have a real yard.

Tell you what, I'll write and direct a flick based off of a serial killer who poses as an ice cream man who's been abducting children and women and killing them in his torture home, only to be walking on the edge of being uncovered as two best friends move into the neighborhood with wait for it — an ice cream truck!

With (really) offbeat humor, the story centers on man - child «Clinton» (Fran Kranz) who still lives with his mother «Edie» (Blythe Danner) at age thirty - something, lazily watches television in a dirty robe, and fights with neighborhood kids over action figures at his own makeshift yard sale.