Sentences with phrase «number of parents in»

John has organized a number of parents in the community with children in this age category.

Note 6, U.S. government census statistics 1998; DHHS, «Percentage Distribution of Children in United States by Number of Parents in Household, see Family Structure, http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/hsp/98trends/98SEC1.HTM

Alternatively, another study defined the home environment as the number of parents in the home, the home library, reading at home, watching television, working on homework, absence from school, parent involvement, and family resources.

«Our reading consultant and our kindergarten teacher have trained a number of parents in how to deliver one - to - one instruction for struggling readers,» said principal Bridget Braney.

A growing number of parents in developed countries are choosing to delay their child's enrolment in formal schooling.

«There is a small number of parents in any city who are attracted to citywide school issues,» said Marcia Klenbort, director of apple Corps in Atlanta.

Nonetheless, the number of parents in the United Kingdom willing to immunize their babies with the vaccine dropped from 90 percent in 1998 to less than 80 percent in 2004.

Albany, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)- New York public school students will spend less time taking the unpopular Common Core assessments that have been boycotted by large numbers of parents in recent years.

As women are spending more time developing their careers and smashing glass ceilings in the work place, record numbers of parents in the United...

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The number of parents who treat their children unequally in wills more than doubled from 1995 to 2010, according to an October 2015 working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

With today's economy and the meteoric rise in the numbers of single parents, many young families have it tougher than their parents did.

In other words, it took millennials a third of the time to go through almost the same number of jobs as their parents» generation.

Perth Airport parent body Westralia Airports Corporation has announced an increase in operating profit, on the back of a strong year in its property division and increases in car park capacity and passenger numbers.

«Parenting daughters reduces the bias that one has towards women, which leads to more female hires,» the researchers wrote, noting that firms with a greater number of daughters over the age of 12 also lead to even greater gender diversity in firms.

In the first of three planned games in the eastern water town of Wuzhen, the AlphaGo program held off China's world number one Ke Jie in front of Chinese officials and Google parent Alphabet's chief executive Eric SchmidIn the first of three planned games in the eastern water town of Wuzhen, the AlphaGo program held off China's world number one Ke Jie in front of Chinese officials and Google parent Alphabet's chief executive Eric Schmidin the eastern water town of Wuzhen, the AlphaGo program held off China's world number one Ke Jie in front of Chinese officials and Google parent Alphabet's chief executive Eric Schmidin front of Chinese officials and Google parent Alphabet's chief executive Eric Schmidt.

Thus, it's no surprise that in the past 20 years, the number of dads who stay home with children has dramatically increased and men in general are spending significantly more time parenting their children.

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

As a percentage of total spending, Boomers are expected to spend 3.4 % more on health care than their parents did, and through 2060 will contribute to a 1.04 % annual growth rate in this sector by sheer number of new customers alone.

Cambridge Analytica is a data firm under a British parent company, SCL Group, that has been used by a number of largely Republican political committees, candidates, and causes in recent years.

That summer, after two more hospitalizations, Jake's desperate parents sent him to Mountain Valley in New Hampshire, a residential treatment facility and one of a growing number of programs for acutely anxious teenagers.

But all of its fancy number - magic won't make it easier for young parents struggling in today's harsh economic climate to raise healthy, well - adjusted children.

It's mainly based on parent income and assets, student income and assets, the size of your household, and the number of people currently attending college in your household.

Before the era of mass incarceration, there was already evidence linking problems in poor neighborhoods to the high number of single - parent households and also to the high rate of mobility: the continual turnover on many blocks as transients moved in and out.

Given the number of Muslims in the area this wasn't surprising but this girl had obviously been told by her parents to keep her head and limbs covered which she did using the tightest body hugging clothes I have ever seen!

In fact, we already do that in a number of areas — Pell grants for poor college students, child care to the parent, not a religious institution, and the parent freely chooses a school that is secular, Buddhist, Baptist and so oIn fact, we already do that in a number of areas — Pell grants for poor college students, child care to the parent, not a religious institution, and the parent freely chooses a school that is secular, Buddhist, Baptist and so oin a number of areas — Pell grants for poor college students, child care to the parent, not a religious institution, and the parent freely chooses a school that is secular, Buddhist, Baptist and so on.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

The parents, the children, and the consorts do not in any circumstances lose this right, though the amount of their share may be affected by the number of heirs.

A number of parents threatened the school with legal action over the summer after their children were prevented from beginning their second year of A-levels because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

But the science of reproductive control grew in the soil of eugenics, and mainstream assumptions about birth control still reflect strong judgements about the number of children responsible parents should have.

For instance, in Life Without Father, David Popenoe offers stunning evidence of negative outcomes for the growing number of children whose fathers are absent, whether because of divorce or because their parents did not marry.

Beside that it is not like that named self as» «pre-ci-se»» proving him self ig - nor - ant but it is that Muslims merry more than wife and not believe in birth control as to the number of children they get, they consider ab - or - tion is a sin... and believe that each child is born, comes to life along with his sub-sis-ten-ce and that God provide that for him and that parents should not fear poverty or the in - abil - ity to support...!

One possible justification would be «market failure»: the possibility that, through distortions and externalities in the price structure of the economy, parents are encouraged to rear the «wrong» number of children.

In any case, in a growing number of countries, the governments do not seem satisfied with the family choices parents have been makinIn any case, in a growing number of countries, the governments do not seem satisfied with the family choices parents have been makinin a growing number of countries, the governments do not seem satisfied with the family choices parents have been making.

Helping parents attain their desired numbers of children might in such circumstances result in heightened fertility.

There is overwhelming evidence, from surveys both nationally and in a number of states, that parents do not, that they seek schools for their children in which clear standards come to expression.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

The Association of Christian Counsellors warned that a significant increase in the number of families where both parents work is one factor behind a rise in mental health issues linked to home and work pressures.

There was a significant increase in the number of homes with only one parent, and particularly in the number of homes with single mothers.

And in every single instance this point is being made, it just simply gets ignored, as if it did not matter to a large number of females or parents.

The numbers of Jewish students participating in Hillel activities have increased, but like their parents, most observe only the High Holidays and Passover.

In addition to its broad target — reaching the entire congregation with a message that will help them understand alcoholism — the church has a number of more limited and strategic target groups: teen - agers and pre-teens who are making or are about to make decisions about alcohol; parents who are searching for ways to prepare their children to cope constructively with alcohol and to avoid alcoholism; alcoholics and their families who need help but are afraid to come out of hiding (see Chapter 8).

How could both of them have suddenly been able to halve the number of chromosomes in their reproductive cells in the manner needed to produce a healthy offspring with some characteristics of both parents?

In order to supply the proper number of chromosomes to the offspring, each parent's reproductive cells undergo a remarkable process called meiosis, whereby cells from each parent are left with half the usual number of chromosomes.

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

One perhaps could argue that the 17 average hours that parents spent with their children per week in 1985 could have been quality time and therefore just as good as, or even better than, the greater number of hours they spent together in 1965.

According to evolutionary psychology, the emergence of the human species was accompanied by a change in reproductive strategy, a switch to producing a smaller numbers of offspring whose parents made a correspondingly greater investment in seeing them reach adulthood.

It is therefore the judgment of a growing number of Protestant Christians that it is not only the right, but the duty, of parents to take all relevant factors into account, including as a prime factor their service to God and his Kingdom, and plan for their family in the light of the total situation.

With a series of multicolor charts, Barton shows that beginning in 1962 the number of teenage pregnancies, divorces and single - parent families went up, as did rates for sexually transmitted diseases and violent crime.

There have emerged in recent years a number of groups to the left of the CPI, disillusioned by its flaccidity and, if anything, more authoritarian than the orthodox parent.