Sentences with phrase «neighborhood the children live»

The researchers adjusted their findings for race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty, education and how urban the neighborhood the children lived in was.

There may be a relationship between the spanking of children, the type of neighborhood the children live in and the likelihood of a report of abuse or neglect to Child... Read more →

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Once your children are old enough, they can take on work opportunities like babysitting and mowing neighborhood yards, provided you live in a safe neighborhood.

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.

The couple had three children — Susan, Howard and Peter — and bought a home in Omaha's Dundee neighborhood in 1958 (it's the same home that Warren lives in today).

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.»

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

This was all so that my best friend and I could spend some time traveling in Europe where we would meet irresistibly handsome and rich identical twins with Australian accents (we had a thing for the, «G'Day, Mate,»), get married on Regis and Kathy Lee at Cinderella's Castle in Disney World, and then live next to each other, raising adorable little children in our idyllic neighborhood.

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.

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

I hope «Christianity» is the right religion, if it is not then I have wasted a lot of time and money, or perhaps not, for if one lives up to the values, beliefs and principles of true Christianity that one would be one of the nicest people to live on Earth with and as a child of 6 I realized I did not like any of the people in my neighborhood very much, not much at all.

We are now paying the price of that blind and irresponsible folly — in a drug war that we are not winning, in burgeoning crime that has made city neighborhoods uninhabitable, in teenage pregnancies and «children having children,» in rampant abortions, swelling welfare roles, sexually transmitted diseases, self - indulgent neglect of community good, and countless ruined lives.

On the street where I live there is also a Negro physician and his fine family, and it is an attractive sight to see these children playing with the white children of the neighborhood.

The self - emptying Christ has freed Alyosha to empty his own ego, to live and act in joyful obedience to God, and thus to be bound in unbreakable solidarity with his father and brothers, with his friends and enemies, and (not least of all) with the miserable children of his neighborhood.

Applebee's will also bring the tradition of helping the neighborhood to Hawaii by sponsoring a month of fundraising activities for Make - A-Wish ® Hawaii, which grants wishes for children diagnosed with life - threatening medical conditions.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle - class peers, you need to change everything in their lives — their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child - rearing practices of their parents.

It's not an easy road — it takes a lot of work and a lot of coordination — but lives of children in neighborhoods like those can be turned around.

Since children rely upon the adults in their lives to help keep them safe, David Patterson has provided us with his Health & Safety Guide with tips on topics ranging from travel safety to water safety to neighborhood safety.

But in voting against the plan, Byrne and Trustees Thom Koch Jr. and Rick Duros cited neighborhood concerns.Parents living near the Warrington Road entrance of the 68 - acre park said they were concerned the additional cars entering the expanded parking lot would pose a safety threat to children playing in the area.

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.»

A couple living in the neighborhood, Robert and Mildred Tong, made their donation and submitted the inscription, which was a message to their three children: «Missy, EB and Baby: Jesus is the Cornerstone.

«A great neighborhood park can have a tremendous effect on the neighborhood and the lives of its children,» said Claypool.

Many children do not live in homes with yards and gardens to explore or in neighborhoods where they can spend hours playing outside.

You can talk with your teenager about alcohol consumption, move to the best possible neighborhoods, be involved in the child's life without being overbearing, and be a perfect role model.

And above all, I can not for the life of me figure out why our dogs can have food without added soy products, preservatives, and artificial food coloring, but I can't take my youngest child to our trendy neighborhood cupcake shop because there's not a flavor there without food dyes (never mind what's on offer at the groceries and convenience stores along the same street).

The researchers argue that the dampened physiological response to a child's anguish results from the «cumulative wear and tear... of living in poverty and dangerous neighborhoods.»

If you don't live in a diverse neighborhood and your child doesn't go to a school with kids of other races, surround her with children's books and artwork featuring people of different races.

While the realities described by Paul Tough in this book are very familiar to me, I hope to some day make even a fraction of the difference Geoffrey Canada has made in the lives of children from poor neighborhoods right here in the USA.

«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.

For children, nightmares could be related to events such as starting school, moving to a new neighborhood, or living through a family divorce or remarriage.

Residents are more engaged, children are attending their neighborhood school, and people are proud to live in JOSANA.»

«Over the past seven years, the Buffalo Promise Neighborhood initiative has been a positive and empowering force in the lives of so many children and families in our city,» said Brown, while hailing the city's $ 50 million investment in the neighborhood during his years in City Hall.

The various infrastructure development in the state are to further enhance the welfare of government workers in particular: quality and affordable schools for their children, affordable medicare, good neighborhoods to live in, good roads to drive on without the frequent wear and tear on their vehicles.

The airport is architecturally impressive but inconvenient.The people speak her language, but they are always judging and comparing, evaluating the clothes she wears, the home and neighborhood she lives in, the school her children will attend.

She was born and raised in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC, where she currently lives with her husband Dan Gordon and her three children Noa, Eyal and Asher.

The Erie County Health Department has concentrated its inspections for lead paint to houses in at - risk neighborhoods where children live.

He lives in the Bronx's Edenwald neighborhood, a few blocks south of Baychester, where he grew up the youngest of three children.

But parents and politicians say it's a reality their children live with everyday in their neighborhoods.

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.

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.

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.

In Dominican and African American families from poor areas of New York City, living in a neighborhood with dense traffic and industrial facilities increased a child's risk of developing asthma, according to Miller and other Columbia University researchers.

Hispanic children were 5 percentage points more likely to live in a high - poverty neighborhood in 2010.

More children are living in high - poverty neighborhoods following the Great Recession — a troubling shift because children in these neighborhoods are a year behind academically, according to new research from researchers at Rice University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin.

«More children living in high - poverty neighborhoods following Great Recession.»

The research revealed that more children whose parents were not already poor were living in high - poverty neighborhoods following the Great Recession.

In contrast, in 2010 non-Hispanic black children were only 4.1 percentage points more likely to live in a moderate - high - poverty neighborhood.

In 1998, 36 percent of children lived in moderate - low, moderate - high and high - poverty neighborhoods.