Perhaps she enjoys all the attention from
the other mothers and children.
But there are ways to meet
other mothers and children, to make sure you don't end up feeling isolated.
I want
other mothers and children to avoid that same awkwardness.
In other words, who I become as a mother can filter into other arenas of life, including activism on behalf of
other mothers and their children.
Independent t tests comparing the demographics and
other mother and child variables of the 13 mother — child pairs who dropped out from the study with those of the 29 mother — child pairs who remained in the study revealed that the dropout mothers had a lower educational level (t = − 2.76, p <.01).
Not exact matches
Blackburn conducted research focused on
mothers caring for
children with autism
and other chronic conditions,
and found that moms who were more resilient to stress — perceiving their situation as a challenge, rather than something hopeless or overwhelming — kept their telomeres longer.
My original reservation had been for a bulkhead seat, with no one in front, but a week before departure Qantas phoned to say that a
mother with a baby
and two
other children had booked,
and therefore I was being moved.
Since Nov. 10, the 52 - year - old
mother of two has been in a Mexican prison accused with three
others of plotting to shepherd Saadi Gadhafi, his wife,
and his two
children from Libya to a safe house in Mexico using forged documents.
She had to send two of her
children to her
mother's home
and the
other two to her brother's, he said.
Her
mother Angelina
and other parents of abducted
children began to meet at the Catholic cathedral every Saturday to fast
and pray for their daughters.
I am the
mother of 3
children and am an atheist (
and a moral, law abiding, kind, charitable person like most
other of my fellow humans regardless of religious affiliation).
We should learn from those who are dying that the best way to teach our
children about God is by loving each
other wholly
and forgiving each
other fully - just as each of us longs to be loved
and forgiven by our
mothers and fathers, sons
and daughters.
Christianity has already dwindled in the U.S.
and supposedly we are better for it as unwed
mothers put pressure on the system, people kill each
other for a pair of shoes,
children are corrupted as early as we can manage to corrupt them, etc..
It keeps conservatives from facing the fact that the Progressives,
and most of the
others who disagree with them, are their political brothers, sisters, fathers,
and mothers — that we are America's
children all, not simply due to formal citizenship, but due to the fact that something about America's original principles, even something about America's successes, caused many of its
children to sincerely, if not always wittingly, reinterpret
and thus actually oppose those original principles.
But when it comes to non-autonomous
children, policy protects their rights to pursue happiness by promoting the truth about marriage» encouraging a man
and a woman to commit to each
other permanently
and exclusively so that any
children that their union produces will have access to the love
and care of their
mother and father.
Once at the hospital, George
and the
other students say they met the
mother of the
child Nava tutors.
In that sense, the church institution may still succeed if they change their emphasis from attendance
and building projects, being «in the spot light»
and hating
other people's «sins»,
and avoidance of the locally wounded, downtown poor, the widows among us, the
children of single
mothers,
and so forth.
As Chesterton observed, «Creatures so close to each
other as husband
and wife, or a
mother and children, have powers of making each
other happy or miserable with which no public coercion can deal.»
this is what i learned from church on sundays as a
child,: to honour my
mother and father, to treat
others with kindness, to not steal, not covet, to forgive,
and treat my enemies with kindness.
To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of
other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care
and support; that what
children need is parenting in some disembodied sense,
and not
mothering and fathering.
Other projects include an exploration of motherhood in messianic genealogies in «
Mother Knows Best: Messianic Surrogacy
and Sexploitation in Ruth» in
Mother Goose,
Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest: Biblical
Mothers and their
Children (Brill),
and a commentary on Ruth
and article on «Responsible Christian exegesis of the Hebrew Scriptures» in the African diasporic biblical commentary The Africana Bible (Fortress).
He believed that a
child's emotional
and physical well - being depended upon a finely attuned
mother -
child relationship
and that early breaches in this relationship might impede one's ability to bond with
others — even in adulthood.
Clothes, candles,
and other household necessities were made by the
mother and children.
So, in honor of the new addition to Team Evans, I'm joining Melinda Gates, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kay Warren, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter
and host of
other Christian advocates in their support of an organization called Hope Through Healing Hands,
and in particular the Faith Based Coalition for Healthy
Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders
and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn,
and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing
and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health
and reduce
child mortality around the world.
If a
mother can be arrested for leaving her
child in a car, never out of her sight, for three minutes on a freezing day while her
other children put money in a Salvation Army bucket — well, if someone were to write a story, now, about
children allowed to sail
and camp alone for an entire summer,
and stay out all night on the water, those
children would have to possess supernatural powers or inhabit another planet,
and the story would be labeled «fantasy.»
But who took care of
children while
mothers and fathers —
and all
other able - bodied adults — struggled to survive economically?
But don't they all have to do with how we relate to each
other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as
child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to
mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor,
and on
and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister,
and sister to brother?
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women,
children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women /
children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night
and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or
mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions,
and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family
and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions
and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel
and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each
other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father
and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against
children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among
others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate
and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
I know there are going to be a bunch of people out there that scream that God can do anything
and could create a sinless
Child, but you can not ignore the HUMAN nature of Jesus, so unless God created something
other than human,
and then placed it in Mary's womb, he inherited his human nature from his
mother and thus inherited the Original Sin.
I carried Wassim into the van
and held him in my lap with pounding heart as
Mother drove to the
children's hospital established by
other sisters on the opposite side of Bethlehem.
(The average welfare family size is 2.6; some families have two
children and a single
mother,
others only one
child.)
The idea of the nuclear family, on the
other hand, refers to a bonded
mother and father raising one or more
children.
Is there something to be said for sparing
mother and / or
child from public embarrassment, economic burden, disability
and other «problems» that can sometimes come with carrying a pregnancy to term?
For instance, a twenty - eight - year - old
mother in the same study, like many
other respondents, pointed to «my family
and my
children primarily,
and my careers» Another person answered, «my
child, my friends, my hobbies,
and mostly my work; they give me a sense of achievement.»
This is my body... take
and eat this bread... a very high - strung
child... no, too much candy is all... honestly, they've ruined this dress... get me a wet cloth,
and when I wake up they're pulling my arms out of my sleeves as the
other children mill around, cacophonous
and released,
and my
mother is bending over me, wiping my face until I'm cold.
To put the point another way, if 9/11 drove to church for weeks on end millions of Americans who had not darkened that doorstep in years — as it did — imagine the even deeper impact on ordinary
mothers and fathers of a sick
child or the similarly powerful desire of a devoted spouse on the brink of losing the
other.
They tore away
Children our of their
Mothers arms,
and dash'd out their Brains against the Rocks;
others they threw in the River, diverting themselves with this brutish Sport,
and giving great shouts while they saw»em in this misery.»
Because men are invariably the fathers of
children for whom women are
mothers,
and those men are permitted to hold all those
other roles too, right?
I first sensed the ambiguity of the Bible regarding war
and peace as a
child, listening to my father
and mother quote scripture to each
other in their ongoing debate about this issue.
Citing examples of Christian
mothers who were instrumental in the abolition of slavery
and the passage of laws against
child labor, she makes a strong case that virtues such as compassion
and creativity that are «refined in the practice of motherhood can
and should be used in
other arenas to bring God's love, peace, mercy
and justice to the world.»
-LSB-...] He reminds the couple in his sermon that their greatest achievement will be the nurturing of
children like themselves; their greatest reward will be that which their own parents have here
and now, when they stand in the benches behind their own
children at their weddings;
children who will thank God above all
other things for the gift of a good
and truly Christian
mother and father.
As we checked in, E
and I were hauled in front of a security officer to taste the revolting baby food we were carrying; Hugh's Calpol was unceremoniously confiscated; E had to prise the teddy bear from his hands [the response was what E fondly calls auto - waa]
and just in case
mother and child were not feeling sufficiently browned off by this stage in the proceedings, I was forced to stand the
other side of the security barrier while my baby
and hispushchair were searched.
Maybe it will be the
mother of several young
children who sacrifices all of her time, energy,
and personal desires to do what is so rare
and so difficult these days: to raise up her
children so that they love God
and love
others.
For instance, consider these remarkable examples of scientific knowledge: the sphericity of the earth (XXXIX, 5), the formation of rain (XXX, 48), fertilization by the wind (XV, 22), the aquatic origin of all living creatures (XXI, 30), the duality in the sex of plants
and other creatures, then unknown (XXXVI, 35), the collective life of animals (VI, 38), the mode of life of the bees (XVI, 69), the successive phases of the
child in his
mother's womb (XXII, 5; XXIII, 14).
Of course I nursed my
child in my parents home, they did not have a problem with it
and neither do any
other mothers I know!
From leaders of countries to
mothers trying to understand their
children, mimetic theory helps us see the truth behind our actions
and those of
others.
The conflict between the
mothers who choose not to abort a Down syndrome
child and these who do is salient at the Web site «The Ragged Edge,» where the
mother of such a
child expresses her disgust with «A Heartbreaking Choice»: «In
other words, their fetuses had no value as imperfect living beings.
And the other example is the startlingly brilliant and heartbreaking passage in which Tolstoy describes the thoughts and internal apprehensions of Anna's child Seryozha in the long days since his mother went away — a scene that is more or less indescribable and that one must read to apprecia
And the
other example is the startlingly brilliant
and heartbreaking passage in which Tolstoy describes the thoughts and internal apprehensions of Anna's child Seryozha in the long days since his mother went away — a scene that is more or less indescribable and that one must read to apprecia
and heartbreaking passage in which Tolstoy describes the thoughts
and internal apprehensions of Anna's child Seryozha in the long days since his mother went away — a scene that is more or less indescribable and that one must read to apprecia
and internal apprehensions of Anna's
child Seryozha in the long days since his
mother went away — a scene that is more or less indescribable
and that one must read to apprecia
and that one must read to appreciate.
But it is not an option for those who, for various reasons, are not in a position to work full - time - the elderly, single
mothers with small
children,
and others.
Reflecting on the physical complaints she hears from
other mothers about their
children, she thinks, «There is, after all, strong brown soap for poison ivy, iodine for cuts
and bruises, mud for bee stings, honey for sore throats, chalky white casts for broken bones.