Sentences with phrase «of societal pressure»

You don't have to get married — Although there's still a lot of societal pressure to have the big, white, storybook wedding — if that's not your thing, that's totally OK.

2 - Many mothers who would love to continue breastfeeding past age two stop prematurely simply because of societal pressure.

I BF # 5 until he was 3 and I certainly stopped because of societal pressure.

There is a lot of societal pressure these days to start kids learning earlier and earlier.

Good question, but there's still a lot of societal pressure to couple up and put a ring on it, even though marriage has been called a «greedy institution,» limiting both men's and women's freedom, including sexual freedom — unless you have an open marriage and that, my friends, is up for you to create or not.

This is possibly due to their impaired social reasoning which makes them unaware of the societal pressures against gender nonconformity.

Yoga provides a great counter-pose to a lot of the societal pressures girls face and offers ways to sustain or heal the mind - body connection in a world that works to fragment us from our bodies.

In this graveyard of societal pressures and ill intentions, Thornton's film finds stores of emotional power, moving with subtle grace, a la the light - footed Sam as he slinks away from the lawmen hot on his heels.

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Not only is «Blockers» one of the few women - directed movies coming from a major studios this year, but it's sex - positive message about consent and societal pressures around people losing their virginity make it an incredible feat in the midst of the #MeToo and Time's Up movement.

Pope Francis seeks to encourage families with practical guidance amid the myriad of challenges they face around the world, including unemployment, migration, poverty, gambling, alcoholism, polygamy and societal pressures that ignore the longstanding Catholic teaching of marriage.

In a globalized and digitally - connected world, Canadian youth need more dialogue with our counterparts in Asia, especially as we find ourselves grappling with a common set of issues, like school and societal pressures, prohibitive housing prices, and the endless frustrations of landing a stable and respectable job.

I think this tendency to be better educated is a side - effect of needing some inertia (like education and exposure to other ideas) to be able to overcome the societal pressure to believe.

The «Nones» category is growing quickly, but the change is coming by way of Cultural and Congregational Christians who no longer feel the societal pressure to be «Christian.»

It's merely one that took hold a couple of thousand years ago and has gone mostly unchallenged due to societal pressures.

Second, in most cases, tremendous familial and societal pressure is placed on the child not to make an allegation of abuse.

It could be that there are economic and societal pressures — external pressures — putting a burden on their relationship, but the fundamental problem lies in the fact of sin, which has been given free reign.

Greater differentiation between values and behavior or between the kingdom of God and institutional programs, for example, can scarcely be understood in any kind of adequate way apart from the specific societal pressures that reinforce these changes.

Non-religious folks are often chastised and so we may not have an actual figure of how many non-religious really exist since there may be societal pressures to appear religious in a given area.

The film itself is a bit scattered — in trying to cover so much ground, it sometimes feels as though the story itself is all over the place, and some of the points it makes (like the societal pressure on men to eat meat as a reflection of their manhood) are much stronger than others.

I am one of those people who really believes that we allow ourselves to feel shame, but I do agree that there is societal pressure and expectations that probably bring about those feelings.

Sure there will be societal pressures, but that is all part of who we are.

Pica and Carlsson - Paige discuss the value of play and comment on how societal factors like media and academic pressure in the early years are impeding children's natural inclinations to play.

In fact, all of my writing is exactly about what you've written — I don't believe in mom guilt nor the idea that moms need to look at societal pressures to do more, expect more, and achieve more because, at the heart, being a mom — which you articulated again — is simply enough.

Societal pressure to be married and stay married, and to honor a marital commitment «until death» no matter what — even when a marriage isn't working anymore — is so strong that it influences «a lot of the dynamics that lead to adultery.»

Maybe it's the lingering anxiety of my Zoloft - gone - bad, but it's probably this weird societal pressure to dress my children in their matching gender.

It's easy to get tangled up in societal norms and pressures and get lost at sea — simply swimming, like a school of fish, following one another, without hesitation or any real sense of direction.

What is this simple truth that can save us for unjustified societal pressures warning us that being kind and parenting from a place of empathy will warp our kids??? Simply stated it is this:

Allow yourself to parent from your center instead of from expert advice or societal pressures and worry.

Recognizing the societal pressures women face to «do it all» and to do it flawlessly, especially when it comes to motherhood, Kurtz emphasizes the importance of making room for imperfection, and of caring for mother as well as baby.

A lot of your feelings of grief about this have to do with pressure we put on ourselves, and the HUGE SOCIETAL PRESSURE that's laid at our feet to breastfeed... and if you «fail» you're a «failure» as a mother in general for not doing what is «bestpressure we put on ourselves, and the HUGE SOCIETAL PRESSURE that's laid at our feet to breastfeed... and if you «fail» you're a «failure» as a mother in general for not doing what is «bestPRESSURE that's laid at our feet to breastfeed... and if you «fail» you're a «failure» as a mother in general for not doing what is «best.»

There is no good reason to explain why so many stop, except the fact that they experience lack of support and societal pressure.

Looking back on the experience, I am very grateful for having had an opportunity to breastfeed both of my children past two years and for letting my instincts override those difficult societal pressures which I think were very real.

I'm not weaning him because of loss of benefits or societal pressure though.

Feelings of inadequacy, intimidation and societal pressure to wean can cause mothers to give up breastfeeding before meeting their goals.

The combination of hormones and societal pressures could rattle anyone.

In settings where breastfeeding is not the social norm, support can increase women's belief in breastfeeding, and give them confidence to continue breastfeeding in the face of societal and family pressures that might undermine breastfeeding.

And finally we also agree with those who have studied inequality and found that it undermines societal cohesion, puts pressure on democracy as the rich and powerful gain so much say, and ultimately undermines growth because of the sheer inefficiency of putting so much wealth in the hands of people who literally can't spend it all.

The contributors argue that the paths and causes of societal declines are generally complex and that despite pressures of population and environmental degradation, societies demonstrate considerable resilience.

Genuinely acknowledging and rewarding these other key impact factors, such as societal engagement, teaching excellence, and input and deliberation at key meetings and conference participation could go a long way toward balancing the demands of academic output to publish alone, thus lessening the pressure to spend endless weekends and vacation time writing for quantity rather than quality.

Our response to societal pressures about vaccination has a direct effect on the spread of pediatric infectious diseases in areas where inoculation is not mandatory, says new research published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

When you judge others for wearing makeup, dying their hair, altering parts of their body or inner self, JUST BECAUSE YOU DO N'T, makes you just as toxic as a lot of societal norms and pressures we are constantly faced with.

«If you are pregnant during these years, we know that the physiological changes that happen to your body, the weight gain, can be quite triggering for a number of women because there's a societal pressure on yummy mummies and losing your baby weight quickly,» says Morgan.

You get pressure from every side to find The One — Mom can't stop asking, Great Aunt Sue always brings it up at Thanksgiving, societal norms say women in relationships > single women, and there's that silent - yet - deafening tick of the biological clock.

Toddlers» minds are like sponges, but they haven't yet soaked up a confusing cocktail of bad diet advice and societal pressures about what they should be doing for their health.

Perhaps these ideas include the outdated ideals of past generations, things your friends or family have said that have influenced you, the societal pressure we always feel, on some level, that a secure job should be valued above all else.

People across the globe (although more in the United States due to societal pressures and beauty norms) have a history of dieting with the end goal of weight loss.

The concept of dressing like everyone else goes back to societal pressure in general, but peer pressure in specific.

And she reminded me there is still a battle each of us are fighting — societal pressures, familial expectations, career stereotypes, you name it — but all of these pale in comparison with the battle we often face with ourselves.

The way we consume fashion is insane as it 1) aren't enough resources to keep up the pace in a sustainable way and 2) are people paying our cheap price with their lives 3) and there's also an unhealthy view and societal pressure to dress like everyone else and wear a certain type of clothes.

On those tracks, Butler sang with a nervous energy, exuberance, and an urgency that suggested he was feeling the weight of all these societal pressures right along with his audience.