Sentences with phrase «parent abdicates»

This parent abdicates and defers to others in his child's life - «If your teacher says so...» «If that's what grandma wants...» - creating an inconsistent patchwork of limits and love.

Parents abdicate their responsibility to help prepare their children for the real world.

At the mediation stage, I am a mediator and not an attorney, but nevertheless am able to point out what the situation might be in an adversarial proceeding and what the courts could hold if the parents abdicated their right to write their own separation agreement.

Not exact matches

Should we renounce choice because some parents will abdicate and children left behind will suffer?

Not only have institutions of higher education decisively rejected the role of in loco parentis, but they are increasingly populated by children whose parents have abdicated their own responsibility.

Yet not too many of us think that we need to throw our children to popular culture willy - nilly, I can't think of anyone who denies the importance of a stable and loving family for a child, anyone who thinks that by creating a strong community we are abdicating our roles as parents, not at all.

It is not about abdicating authority as a parent, but about responding to the legitimate biological needs of a baby.

Could it be because more parents still have abdicated responsibility for teaching their kids good life habits to the government?

Could it be because so many parents have abdicated responsibility for feeding their kids to the government?

Some readers of this blog will call it «blaming the parents,» but when did parents get the right to abdicate all responsibility for their child's development?

White says, however, that parents «by and large, have abdicated their children to a system willing to sacrifice education for the almighty dollar.»

In such situations, a mother may turn to her children for comfort or help or may abdicate the parenting role until her own stress and emotional needs are assuaged (Solomon & George, 1996).

If you act too much like a friend, you are abdicating your responsibility as a parent.