Sentences with phrase «number of young children»

The large number of young children who are homeless — an estimated 1.2 million children under age six — adds urgency to this effort.

Other areas of concern discussed include: the state's infant mortality rate, lack of widespread early screening and intervention for developmental delays, and a growing number of young children in the child welfare system.

Recent research has found that an extraordinarily high number of young children are being asked to leave early childhood settings because of their behavior.

In this age, an ever growing number of young children are experiencing family instability, and this may be especially common early in life — a period in which, attachment theory warns, it could do lasting damage to kids» internal sense of security about relationships.

Overall, we have seen a decline in the number of young children with minor correctable needs being placed for international adoption.

We also believe that the number of young children proposed for regulated family child care — six two year olds in a private home with one caregiver — to be too high to constitute «quality» or even safety.

As more parents enter the labor force, the number of young children in the care of early child care and education (ECE) centers has increased.

Plus, there does seem to be a growing number of young children exhibiting these characteristics.

Worryingly, our research with Nursery World, published this year, suggests that an increasing number of young children may be asked to bring their own food to nursery or pre-school, rather than being served with meals and snacks by their provider, as the government extends free childcare and concerns about funding remain.

I have no doubt that the founders and supporters of the Coalition for Divorce Reform, which promotes the Parental Divorce Reduction Act, and the Institute for American Values, which endorses the Second Chances proposal, are sincerely concerned about the number of young children being disrupted by divorce every year.

Publicity about latchkey kids has been plentiful in recent years, but the number of young children who must care for themselves after school because their parents work is relatively small, according to American Demographics magazine.

Jay Belsky, lead author of the federally financed NICHD study, expressed concern that there may be broad societal consequences from large numbers of young children spending many hours in center - based care.

The impulse to take action to remove pedophiles from California's classrooms came about as a result of Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt having slid through the cracks after committing lewd acts against untold numbers of young children.

Recent research uncovered that extraordinarily high numbers of young children are being expelled from child care settings.

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More details: Salmonella can cause serious and potentially fatal infections in young children, the elderly, or people with weakened immune systems.The pistachios, distributed in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Peru, can be identified by a 13 - digit lot code number on the lower back or bottom panel of the package.

The Prime Minister's Office explained, «Like all families of prime ministers, a small number of staff provide assistance,» and, «Given the nature of the Prime Minister's responsibilities and his young family, the Trudeaus employ two household employees who, in addition to performing other duties around the house, act as secondary caregivers to the three children.»

Wendy, in the lower mainland, despite the explosion of people with strollers on the Skytrain, it still seems that a lot of young families with children move out to places like Abbotsford and Chilliwack, where they aren't counted towards the Vancouver census numbers.

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.

The children — who range from 13 to 17 years old (one of the youngest of whom was being pimped and videotaped by her own father)-- came from all over the country, but the largest number of them were recovered in San Francisco.

Rachel Newham, Founding director of Think Twice told Premier that while she isn't surprised by the spike in numbers, hearing about children as young as 10 thinking about taking their own life is «always shocking».

The number of people below the poverty line, measured in terms of minimum necessary nutritional standards, is said to be going down and yet malnutrition as well as severe physical debilities and destitution are on the increase, especially these affecting women and children, the simple physical capacity of the youngest generation to withstand the strains of living becoming ever more unstable and fragile.»

The reason children require a number of years to develop mastery of certain basic concepts, according to some child psychologists, is not that they are slow in learning the words — they actually know the words quite early — but that they have to start experiencing the world in a new, more simplified way that corresponds with the classifications suggested by these words.4 For example, young children may know the words spoon, teaspoon, silver, knife, and metal but find it difficult for several years to apply them appropriately to objects in their environment, the reason being partly that these words form multiple and overlapping classifications.

As it happens, in the»80s, the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley spent years cataloging the number of words spoken to young children in dozens of families from different socioeconomic groups, and what they found was not only a disparity in the complexity of words used, but also astonishing differences in sheer number.

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...

«Number two, they're profiling the challenges that societies have and not only that but the challenges that a lot of their church members are facing with their young children - be it their grandchildren or their children.»

It appears that the fallacy of spatialization of time is committed by young children and — quite a number of philosophers!

One conviction of abuse against a child or young person would be one too many but my attempts to gather reliable information on the number of priests convicted of crimes against children and young persons in the last thirty years have been unsuccessful.

«I am angry that a man who was a violent, aggressive bully, a drunkard with an unhealthy interest in children, and that was obvious, was allowed to be a principal of a school, was allowed to be teacher in a school over a long number of years, allowed access to young boys.

Not only does this set a good example to children and young people, but the greater number of participants, the greater the impact.

With the rapid increase in single - sport specialization among children, orthopedic providers have seen a tremendous rise in the number of adult - type injuries in our young athletes, particularly anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears.

With the rapid increase in single - sport specialization among children, orthopaedic providers have seen a tremendous rise in the number of adult - type injuries in our young athletes, particularly anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears.

Supporting its official partners Save The Children, The Willow Foundation and Islington Giving, by entering Arsenal Lotto you are also benefiting young people through a great number of projects and grants.

If you have been together for a number of years, it is perfectly normally for a reduction in the amount of sex you are enjoying with each other, especially if you have young children.

Some cell phone companies are now offering a plan where you can get cell phones for your younger children with up to four pre-programmed numbers and a button to push in case of emergencies.

I hadn't known about this center's work, and it is highly illuminating and also offers hope for those of us who'd like to see men feel accepted and embraced in that role My only concern is that of the 31 fathers in this study most were at home with babies / young children (meaning they probably hadn't been married too long) and the mean number of years spent caregiving was slightly greater than 5; I wish the authors indicated how many had been doing it for 17 years.

Cavities are the number one chronic disease among young children, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (http://www2.aap.org/oralhealth/).

For many young children, a lack of appropriate vocabulary is the number one reason they hit.

Volume XIII, Number 2 Rhythm and Learning — Dirk Cysarz Thinking and the Consciousness of the Young Child — Renate Long - Breipohl Assesssment without High - Stakes Testing — David Mitchell, Douglas Gerwin, Ernst Schuberth, Michael Mancini, and Hansjörg Hofrichter The Art of Education as Emergency Aid — Barbara Schiller What Have We Learned?

So there are a number of things to observe when your child is young, your male infant is young, to make sure that those are things that can be correctable and therefore avoid a problem with male infertility issues in later life.

However, recent practice suggests that if professionals systematically gather the young men's details by, for instance, routinely asking the mothers for them early in the pregnancy, develop interagency working while making child outcomes the focus of their work and mainstream engagement through the service (in this case, a teenage pregnancy service) while keeping good records and comprehensively assessing the young men's needs substantial numbers of young fathers can be reached with interventions that make a real difference.

«The typical day for a teenager makes my head spin, I don't know how they do it,» he says.And for many teens and young adults, the balancing act is getting more difficult to keep up, Bradley says, as record numbers of children are being diagnosed with anxiety and depression.

I have lost count of the number of times relatively well - qualified, relatively well - paid women have said to me that they stopped working when their children were young because «it was too much trouble».

To read more about the cognitive development of very young children, see this article about what babies know about numbers.

There are a number of foods that cause choking in babies and young children.

Traffic accidents are the number one killer in US of young children.

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Even if her still very young toddler were acting out more than most other 15 - month - old's, it is not AP that makes a child behave badly — you can not spoil your child with love — but, it could be a number of other factors from lack of discipline to bad diet to sleep deprivation.

We are raising a generation of young males who measure their manhood by the caliber of their gun and the number of children they have fathered - a generation for whom the camaraderie of a gang has replaced the love of a family.

Young children often go through stages where they refuse to eat certain foods, only want to eat a small number of specific foods, or are easily distracted at mealtimes.

There is not a specific recommendation for the number of minutes young children should be active each day.