Sentences with phrase «of girls than boys»

Greater proportions of girls than boys reported a conflicted family environment, having experienced sexual abuse, and a good relationship with their parents.

«This is a trait which is more typical of girls than boys - who are more easily distracted and prefer to focus on one thing at a time,» he claims.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro conducted a longitudinal study of almost 1,000 elementary school students and reported that teachers had higher expectations for the reading achievement of girls than boys.

Not exact matches

That won't surprise anyone who's seen the recent New York City Department of Consumer Affairs report on gender pricing in the city, which found that toys and accessories marketed at girls cost an average of 7 % more than similar products aimed at boys.

To date, the company has shipped more than 300,000 of its bulbous «Dash» robots — marketed to boys and girls alike — that scoot around according to simple instructions programmed by kids.

While venture capital partners have more sons than daughters, about 125 boys for 114 girls, its roughly in line with the national demographic of 51 % boys.

When Freitas sat down to talk to young people about their phones, she heard some pretty crazy stories of raging tech addiction, from the girl who gave her phone a name and talked about it like a friend to the boy who claimed he'd rather leave his brain at home than his precious device.

For hundreds of children living in Northeast Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club is more than a place to play, it's a second home.

TO choose between him or Mitt Romney a man who is evil I have no choice but to vote for President Obama, To cut a child's hair off and commit the crime he did in school is a lot different than a little boy pushing a little girl because of embarassment.

More than three - quarters of children surveyed - 87 % of boys and 77 % of girls - felt pornography failed to help them understand consent, while the majority of boys (53 %) and more than a third (39 %) of girls saw it as a realistic depiction of sex.

Not surprisingly, the boys are subject to this «neurological disorder» at the ratio of 8 or 9 to 1 higher than girls.

Lots of foodbanks, local boys and girls clubs, etc can use the money a lot more than this guy needed it.

The term «Girly Man» is of course, a reference to a 1980's Saturday Night Live skit by Arnold Swarzenegger, but it is definitely not a slam on girls, any more than calling a girl a «Tomboy» is a slam on boys.

In other words, the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts have radically different organizations, with distinct visions of Scouting, and much less commonality than their names might imply.

And each time, I peered into the face of the one receiving the gift: a lanky boy with pimples and bangs avoiding my gaze; a pretty girl, no more than 13, tears brimming in eager, thankful eyes; a guy wearing his Bama cap because he heard I was a fan, whispering «Roll Tide» as he dipped his bread in the cup; adults receiving with a grateful familiarity, mouthing «thanks be to God» and folding their hands in prayer.

Children of parents with less education watch more, and, at the fourth - grade level, boys watch more TV than girls.

Already there are 60 to 100 million fewer girls than boys in the world, due to selective abortions, selective infanticide or neglect, and the uneven allocation of basic resources such as food, health care and education to girls.

There simply were not enough baby boys born during the war years to provide husbands for the bumper crop of girls born in 1947,» 48, and ’49 (given the then - custom for women to marry men a year or two older than themselves).

The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

«They see girls as a burden rather than seeing a child as precious and honoured in God's sight, and worth of dignity and respect as much as a boy child.»

There's no way of winning here so the best thing is: let girls fight girls and boys boys... This kid is showing more decency and common sense than the average American.

This points to the fact that the cult of success exerts greater pressure on boys in our culture than on girls.

He recalled the solid achievements which were now to be seen in Ernestine Saxony, the results of the Visitation, of the preaching of a theology of faith and the circulation of the Little Catechism, and the German New Testament: «The young people, both boys and girls, grow up so well instructed in the Catechism and the Scriptures that I am deeply moved when I see that young boys and girls can pray, believe, and speak more of God and Christ than they ever could in the monasteries, foundations, and schools of bygone days, or even of our day.

As a bookworm who didn't like sport and who showed no visible interest in girls, I attracted far more abuse than most of the other boys.

A recent report by United Press trust of India (UPI) stated that during the past three years more than 2,500 young boys and girls were sacrificed to goddess Kali in India.

As in many countries in the world, girls are considered by family members to be less worthy of life and respect than are boys.

While working with Kohlberg in the early Seventies on this ground - breaking study of moral development, she noted that girls and women were consistently graded as less moral than boys and men.

Certainly few stories are more calculated to hold the interest of boys and girls than those of this Hebrew strong man who, though singularly lacking in desirable moral and spiritual qualities, is a most excellent example of what not to be — selfish, wilful, lustful, proud, lacking in loyalty, weak in self - control.

And for birthday, s our tradition is for someone other than the birthday «girl» or «boy» cook a special meal of their choice.

In fact, they are likely at greater risk of damage — at least that's what we've learned from the standard childhood vaccinations, which negatively affect two to three times more boys than girls.

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For more than 100 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of America (www.greatfutures.org) has enabled young people most in need to achieve great futures as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

I know of a lot of people doing that with boys, not just for sports, but for social / emotional development (ie boys mature more slowly than girls).

The Basketball Jones Hoop Camps program meets the needs of all skill levels for any boy or girl ages 7 - 15, with over 200 camps under our belt and more than 15,000 former campers.

Our Boys & Girls Club is more than a place... it's a «second home» to most of our members.

Bentley's Division V sports teams earn their share of NCS berths, and there are more than a few tall and athletic boys and girls enjoying the fall sunshine of Lafayette.

Girls are more vulnerable to shin splints than boys, but regardless of gender, left alone, shin splints can turn into stress fractures, and they can also be something that never completely goes away.

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself - and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.

The use of muscle - enhancing behaviors among middle and high school boys and girls - including such unhealthy behaviors as using protein powders or shakes, steroids, and other muscle - enhancing substances - is substantially higher than previously reported, a new study finds.1

Fewer than 10 percent of 11 - to 14 - year - olds and fewer than 2 percent of girl softball players reached the 60 minute physical exercise mark (compared to 32 % of the boys);

%) than soccer, where attendance by a doctor was rare (3.0 %), this despite the fact that statistics show that soccer, both boys» and especially girls, have concussion rates among the highest of all high school sports.

Two - thirds of the football, girl's soccer, and boys» soccer coaches surveyed reported working at schools that employed an AT, and six in ten reported that the AT attended games most or all of the time, although the percentage was much higher for football than soccer (98.4 % versus 77.8 %).

Parents of girls often worry more because of the simple fact that it's riskier for girls to run than for boys — more harm can come to them.

There's nothing wrong with calling your daughter beautiful and your son brave, but feminist moms know that the way we've been subliminally trained to talk to girls focuses more on their appearance than their accomplishments or interests and that focusing on a boy's bravery or athleticism can come at the cost of encouraging him scholastically.

If you notice blood in a baby boy's diaper, or more than just an occasional drop in your baby girl's diaper, it may be a sign of a kidney issue or urinary tract infection.

The list of names for boys have much less variation on it than the name list for baby girls.

Girls seem to be accused of being bossy more often than boys do.

Preoccupation with food and dieting / unreasonable fear of being fat (girls on severe diets in one Australian study were 18 times more likely to develop an eating disorder; moderate dieters were 5 times more likely than those who did not diet; Harvard researcher says 44 % of high school girls and 15 % of boys diet);

Among directly comparable sports (soccer, basketball, baseball / softball), the severe injury rate was higher for girls (0.29 per 1,000 exposures) than for boys (0.23), with virtually all of the difference resulting from a much higher severe injury for girls» basketball (0.34) versus boys» basketball (0.24);