Sentences with phrase «of fragile families»

Author's tabulations of earnings by education of unwed fathers as of the baseline and fourth follow - up of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study data.

Participants A subsample of the Fragile Families and Child Well - being Study participants (n = 1595), who were children born between 1998 and 2000 and their parents interviewed at baseline and at 12, 36, and 60 months.

-- Data from three waves of the Fragile Families Study (N = 2,111) was used to examine the prevalence and effects of mothers» relationship changes between birth and age 3 on their children's well being.

Data from three waves of the Fragile Families Study (N = 2,111) was used to examine the prevalence and effects of mothers» relationship changes between birth and age 3 on their children's well - being.

According to Sara McLanahan of Princeton University, the principal investigator of the Fragile Families Study, if we were to design a system from scratch to ensure that a child's basic needs would be met, it would look remarkably similar to the two - parent family.

The view from TIFF: The raves haven't stopped for MMMM since it debuted at Sundance back in January, and for good reason: This is a terrifying, thought - provoking, strikingly cinematic piece of work, playing off the uncertainty of the heroine's mental state, the disparity between the cult compound and the lake - house, and the vulnerability of a fragile family unit nestled in the wilderness.

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The researchers drew their data from a number of British and American longitudinal surveys, including the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which includes nearly 5,000 participants born in big US cities between 1998 and 2000.

But the irregular employment of the sole breadwinner in the household threw the family's fragile finances into frequent turmoil.

An additional 200,000 to 300,000 individuals and families were also impacted but did not register with FEMA, mostly because of fragile legal status.

Policy moves like these would strengthen the fragile financial foundations of many poor and working - class families.

The chief value of Misconceptions is not as an indictment of the medical establishment, the workplace or the culture, as Wolf supposes, but as an inadvertent but arresting report on the fragile state of the families being formed by young professionals.

Instead of putting the emphasis (and limited financial resources) on trying to prevent divorce, we as a society would be better off if we helped fragile families, whether married or cohabiting; poverty, joblessness, frequent cohabitation by single mothers (and 40 percent of births to single mothers are women who are cohabiting)-- this is what's creating conditions that lead to suffering among children.

The families of medically fragile babies will benefit from knowing that there is donor breastmilk available for their baby to supplement mother's own supply.

However, lessons were learned from these early programmes and in 2004, the Texas Fragile Families initiative reported an increase in child support orders / paternity establishment among its participants (with a «dose» effect — the longer the young father was involved in the programme, the more likely he was to establish paternity / pay child support); and employment rates up from 50 % at the start of the programme to almost 70 % at six months and 80 % at one year (Romo et al, 2004).

And i have yet to meet a family with a medically fragile child whose lives aren't completely taken over by the enormous needs of the child.

Additional support for the Fragile Families and Child Well - Being Study was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and a consortium of private foundations.

For all the pain and fear associated with their 3 1/2 months in the NICU, Coleman left feeling lucky that not only was her family intact, but that she had been given the gift of practice — learning how to care for her two fragile babies under the watchful eyes of the nurses and doctors.

The Fragile Families and Child Well - Being Study, led by researchers from Princeton and Columbia Universities, found that most unwed fathers are involved with the mothers of their children and say they want to be involved in raising their offspring.

A study using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study revealed that in many cases the absence of a biological father contributes to increased risk of child maltreatment.

She volunteers for Special Kids, Special Care building systems of support for families with medically fragile infants.

''... Tornello et al., 2013 should not be generalized to divorced parents or to the vast majority of never married parents because the data were from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing database (McClanahan, 2011).

Now that your baby is home from the hospital, your family and friends are going to have a lot of questions and misperceptions about life with a medically fragile child.

The term «fragile families» refers to families who are at greater risk of being single parent households and living in poverty than more traditional families.

That may include teen parents, homeless families, families of medically fragile children, and children and families in foster or kinship care.

Gun Hill Road (Director and screenwriter: Rashaad Ernesto Green)-- After three years in prison, Enrique returns to the Bronx to find his wife estranged and his teenage son stumbling towards a transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.

LOS ANGELES, CA (February 06, 2018) FOX MOD titles just announced — Baskets: The Complete Season 2 Available on Blu - ray & DVD Now Available Now Baskets: The Complete Season 2 (2018) The Baskets family is at its most fragile in Season 2 of this original comedy series.

Meanwhile, Nurullah's quiet family gleams as a fragile wonder, a candle's flame doomed by a rising storm, in which the much larger guns of the «enlightened» West will unleash terror on this entire society, as we seek to punish and seize and use and control what we do not understand.

Travis, meanwhile, is plagued by nightmares that prophecise the end of his family's fragile existence.

In flashbacks, we see Joe as the steady husband of a fragile wife named Elise (Gretchen Mol) and father to their young son, but after Joe and Elise's divorce, this death in the family leaves the adolescent boy virtually an orphan.

«Breathe In» Synopsis: The arrival of a precocious, talented and beautiful foreign exchange student disrupts the fragile equilibrium of a family in Upstate, New York.

And that's pretty much it - until a newly arrived neighbor named Molly Ripken (Allison Janney) invites the Winters family over for dinner, upsetting the fragile equilibrium of their bachelor household.

While in the midst of dividing his days between reminiscing with his BFF and soothing his emotionally - distant daughter's fragile psyche, Fred gets a surprising request to come out of retirement by an emissary (Alex Macqueen) of the Royal Family.

It is only when Elliot begins to discover the true nature of what is lurking out there — and just what has unleashed this force that threatens the future of humanity - that he discovers a sliver of hope that his fragile family might be able to escape what is happening.

If loneliness, isolation, and extremely fragile families are big parts of the poverty problem, then connecting poor children with thriving families and communities can be part of the solution.

As part of a long - term national project — the Fragile Families and Child Well - being Study, Mr. Johnson will focus on unmarried, low - income African - American men who don't live with their children.

The last study investigates the differential effects of neighborhoods on disparities in children's behavioral school - readiness outcomes using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS)-- a rich longitudinal data that follows nearly 5,000 children between birth and nine years of age.

From her years as a spirited, secretive child, through her university studies - a period of exquisite freedom that imbued her with a profound appreciation of friendship and a love of travel - to her escape to a new life in California, Mayes exuberantly recreates the intense relationships of her past, recounting the bitter and sweet stories of her complicated family: her beautiful yet fragile mother, Frankye; her unpredictable father, Garbert; Daddy Jack, whose life Garbert saved; grandmother Mother Mayes; and the family maid, Frances's confidant Willie Bell.

Eve Lattimore's utmost devotion to her family — and especially to her fragile son Tyler — is tested when she finds herself in the middle of a car accident that results in horrific consequences.

When what happened to them is revealed, the uproar that ensues tears apart families, reputations, and even the social fabric of the city, exposing dark secrets about some of the most powerful of its citizens, and putting fragile loves and lives at great risk.

- Kirkus» [Shriver] returns to the family in this intelligent meditation on food, guilt, and the real (and imagined) debts we owe the ones we love» - Publishers Weekly «Shriver brilliantly explores the strength of sibling bonds versus the often more fragile ties of marriage.»

In a novel as daring as it is compassionate, Elizabeth McCracken introduces an indelibly drawn cast of characters — from Mose's Iowa family to the vagabond friends, lovers, and competitors who share his dizzying journey — as she deftly explores the fragile structures that underlie love affairs and friendships, partnerships and families.

Our reviewer writes, «Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo is a ruminative story about the often fragile bonds of family.

With candor and immediacy, Ruth describes her parents» loveless marriage; her fragile, handicapped mother; her cruel, sexually - abusive father; and the rest of the family and life she abandoned.

With cautionary messages about human prejudice and our fragile world, Triton blends a touching family tale with a global battle for the soul of the sea!

On top of that, these small fragile dogs can be easily sat on or dropped making them particularly unsuitable for families with small children.

Miniature Greyhound — These dogs are small and affectionate and can be great family pets but many of them have housetraining issues and they are kind of fragile.

Warlords of great families follow suit, forming a fragile coalition in a bid to challenge Dong Zhuo's remorseless rule.

The small, fragile ceramic vessels that reference military and funerary formations, «the family units of historical figures in Vietnam,» stand in sharp contrast to the energy and movement of the large - scale paintings.

Painted from historical photographs taken from old magazines, family albums and the propagandist publications distributed by the government during the Cultural Revolution, At a time of immense and rapid socio - economic change in China, these works look back at its past, marking a fragile line with delicate layers of ash between individual memory and official historical record.

This new series continues on themes of family in Harvey's whimsical and otherworldly style, while thinking deeper about what lays ahead in a formative sensory response to how fragile the present can be.