Sentences with phrase «only stable family»

It made me to be a person, like a monster,» said Colon, who considered his brother Wilfredo his only stable family.

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They not only earn more, on average, but they also have more stable families, better health, and less chance of being arrested or incarcerated.

Only those with high incomes, stable jobs and high scores on language / integration tests can live with their family.

We are so busy by the work or family problems that sometimes we have no time or opportunity not only for building new stable relationships but also for simple communication.

His classmate, Damien (Kacey Mottet Klein), is passionate about academics, has an emotionally stable family and a comfortable home, being the son of the town's only doctor, Marianne (Sandrine Kiberlain).

The Swedish automaker that's now a member of the Ford family just concluded a survey on the first batch of shoppers for its new 2001 S60 and found not only that 80 percent of the buyers had never set foot in a Volvo store before, that same 80 percent entered the store with a single purpose, to see the S60, the only vehicle in the Volvo stable they know and care about.

Our foster families play a big part in our success as they not only show the dogs unconditional love and invite them into their home, but they also spend countless hours working with their foster dogs to ensure they are stable and well mannered pets.

For pattern construction, only stable single parent family status continues to show a significant (negative) effect.

As we discuss below, one recent study found that family stability trumps family structure as it pertains to early cognitive development even after controlling for economic and parental resources.26 It has been shown that children living in stable single - parent families (that is, families that were headed by a single parent throughout childhood) do better than those living in unstable two - parent families (that is, families that had two parents present initially but then experienced a change in family structure).27 Another study finds that children living in stable cohabiting homes (that is, families where two parents cohabit throughout the child's life) do just as well as children living with cohabiting parents who eventually marry.28 But other research challenges the conclusion that it is family stability that is crucial for child wellbeing One study, for instance, found that children who experience two or more family transitions do not have worse behavioral problems or cognitive test scores than children who experience only one or no family transitions.

Although secure and insecure attachments were once thought to be fixed and stable over time, this appears to be true only when the infants experience reasonably stable family conditions over the course of the first 2 years (Lamb et al., in press; Thompson, 1998).

Stable single parent families were defined as those where the children always lived only with the single parent.

Conversely, only three per cent of couple families are in the «stable lack of employment» category, compared with 42 % among lone parents.

Patterns of employment vary considerably according to the family type: 82 % of couple families are in the «stable employment» category, compared with only 21 % of lone parent families.

Not only am I concerned with finding a stable career, I'm constantly being questioned about my love life by friends and family.