Sentences with phrase «parent families with children»

In 1960, 72 percent of two - parent families with children under 18 had a single earner (typically the father).

Analyses of the National Health Interview Survey find that, in 2013, five percent of all U.S. parents living in two - parent families with their children, and eleven percent of single parents, reported two or more symptoms related to depression.

Two - parent or single parent families with children, couples and pregnant women with a partner can come to Family Residence when they have no where to go.

Stats from 2011 show two - parent families with children under 18 had an average market income of $ 106,100; an economic family of two people or more earned an average $ 84,400; Lone - parent families earned an average $ 39,100.

Shouldn't the incomes of married couples and two - parent families with children have increased more than they did?

These reductions for the lowest - income groups were so large because President Reagan doubled the personal exemption, increased the standard deduction, and tripled the earned income tax credit (EITC), which provides net cash for single - parent families with children at the lowest income levels.

Introduced with great fanfare by Stephen Harper on October 30, this new provision will reduce the amount you have to pay in federal taxes, as long as you are a two - parent family with children under age 18.

Not exact matches

Zhang and his wife have now returned to their home village and are back on the family farm with their children and parents, raising 200 head of cattle.

Parents who previously left children behind with grandparents or other extended family to have their children join them.

Parenting will always be a challenge in the life of any ambitious entrepreneur and / or business leader, and there are many ways to raise a child: with hired help, with the support of extended family or working for a company with generous family policies that allow for flexible work hours and parental leave.

The parents «don't want to take ambition away from their children,» says Margaret Franklin, CEO of Kinsale Private Wealth, a wealth management team that works closely with family offices.

Other measures include: • remove rule limiting Child Tax Credit (CTC) to one claimant per household (to allow two or more families sharing a house to claim the CTC); • repeal $ 10,000 cap on medical expense tax credit claims made on medical costs incurred for an eligible dependent; • easier access to funds in Registered Disability Savings Plans for beneficiaries with shortened life spans; • improved Employment Insurance benefits to parents of gravely ill, murdered, or missing children; and • enhanced ability to make transfers between individual RESPs, and better access to RESP funds for post-secondary students studying outside Canada.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- In a landmark ruling for non-traditional families in New York, the state's highest court on Tuesday held a person need not have a biological or adoptive relationship with a child to be considered a parent.

But for the billion kids under the age of 15 around the world who didn't get this opportunity, I chatted with Herjavec about what families and parents could do to encourage entrepreneurial thinking in their children.

Yet, despite the costs associated with having a child, many parents report overall satisfaction with their marriage and family life.

By loudly owning her choices, Sandberg makes it a little safer for the rest of us to declare that parents working late into the night is killer on families (Mashable points to research «that children are healthier, happier and better performing students when they eat with their families») and on personal productivity and health, making it a bit easier for those of us with less lofty positions to take back our schedules and admit that we need to work saner hours.

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

His headline: faster indexation of the Canada Child Benefit — the popular payment to parents unveiled in the Liberals» inaugural 2016 budget — which translates into an extra $ 200 a year for a typical family with two kids, starting next summer.

An existing benefit that offers parents or guardians of critically ill children up to 35 weeks of coverage will also be tweaked to allow them to share that leave with other family members.

The budget document floats the idea that the new funding «could» provide up to 40,000 new subsidized child care spaces for families with limited income, or «make it more affordable for parents to return to work,» but offers no specifics.

There is no benefit at all from income splitting for single parents, or for two parent families in which both earners are in the same tax bracket, including the middle and bottom income tax brackets; these families with children under 18 represent over half of all families that are the apparent target of the scheme, according to the Broadbent Institute study, The Big Split.

A few of the many things that jump off of the pages for me are that it doesn't seem to support working families with kids (it REPEALS the up to $ 5,000 exclusion from gross income for dependent care assistance that many working parents use to subsidize the skyrocketing costs of child care while they work) or even those who (like my fantastic law students at UNLV) are pursuing and paying for higher education.

The Trudeau government's massive new $ 23 - billion Canada Child Benefit program, which sends cash directly to families with young children to use how they wish, is also making government - funded daycare less relevant to parents.

In January, Esquimalt passed a resolution to draft a living wage document after its community social planning council calculated that a family with two children and two full - time working parents in the Capital Regional District needs to earn $ 17.30 per hour just to pay for the basics.

It is one thing for parents to take a short vacation on their own for a few days or a week even while a child stays with family.

Typically, this would look like the child of the difficult family dismissing the actions of a hard parent or sibling with a general «Oh, my family is crazy,» laissez - faire, kind of attitude.

The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family breakup.

For some it may mean that «there is an orphaned state required for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, in which a man who like all others is the child of his parents must symbolize with his being and action the present but hidden creation which is not a mere prolongation of the old, but the new creation in relation to which the old has already passed away...» This is, therefore, the first word that must be spoken: of discontinuity between the kingdom of God and any earthly order, even one as significant as the family.

Since primary responsibility for nurturing children rests with the Family, parents should be able to choose the kind of school they want for their children.

It closes with a quote from John Paul II: «In families where both parents are Catholic, it is easier for them to share their common faith with their children.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackChildren Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackchildren, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackchildren the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

- Undermining the primary rights of parents in order to coerce children and families into compliance with and servitude to the state's cultural agenda.

According to the Faith and Families project published last year, only a minority of the children of mainliners are mainliners, whereas a strong majority of evangelical parents end up with evangelical children.

For the minister with strong training in counseling, a method called family group counseling offers a useful tool for helping families with a disturbed member or with parent - child problems.

What's worse than the world seeing Christians disagree with one another is the world seeing Christians remain silent when their own go on TV and tell the parents of children lost in a tornado that those children and their families got what they deserved.

Since the quality of the marriage sets the feeling tone for the family, parents should look at their own relationship when they are considering whether something is wrong with their child.

That has never stopped parents from exercising their right to choice, and children are still murdered every year in the secrecy of the family home, or mysteriously found drowned in a car, or beaten to death a dumped in the woods with the parents claiming kidnapping.

Furthermore, while an intact family composed of two parents of the opposite sex and their biological child or children may provide the best standard family unit in society (and should, therefore, be given support), we would be naive and cruel to dismiss the possibility that differently configured families (e.g., families with single parents or homosexual parents or adopted children) may produce family situations that are as good as, or, in some cases, better than, those of families that fit the standard.

Some Protestant leaders are striving to broaden the church's ministry to include the growing plurality of family forms — to include as coequals with the intact nuclear family all single - parent families, the divorced and remarried, blended families, childless couples, unmarried couples living together, and gay and lesbian couples with or without children.

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Having a child doesn't mean you can only be friends with other parents, obviously, but it sure is nice to connect with others who are in the same stage of life and get what you are going through (and who are OK with calling it a night before 7 p.m.) The old adage is true, it really does take a village to raise a family.

So today we see single parent families with four or five children not two of which have the same father and the mother has never been married.

When a group of parents in a community of faith work together to educate their children in the life of faith, this gives members of each family something in common with other families.

Effectiveness of a family - cluster house - church depends on the capacity and willingness of parents to learn with and teach their own children.

It's this kind of research that led Princeton sociologist Sara McLanahan and her colleague Gary Sandefur to write that if they we were to design a family, the «two - parent ideal... [would ensure] that children had access to the time and money of two adults... would provide a system of checks and balances that promoted quality parenting... [and the] fact that both parents have a biological connection to the child would increase the likelihood that the parents would identify with the child and be willing to sacrifice for that child, and it would reduce the likelihood that either parent would abuse the child.»

Poor parents who have been enabled to choose any school for their children are delighted with the results, according to PAVE's annual report which is available free from Family Service America, 11700 West Lake Park Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53224.

Perhaps an academia made up of more parents with more children would be more likely to support the family as a cultural institution.

If that happens, failure to meet standards could lead to demands to attend some formal schooling, and failure to register could become a criminal offence, with inspectors able to enter family homes and interrogate children without parents or other adults being present.

It is not enough to stop at an announcement «that is merely theoretic and has nothing to do with people's real problems», since «it must not be forgotten that the crisis of faith has led to a crisis in matrimony and the family and, as a result, the transmission of faith from parents to children has been interrupted».

We want to put our own lives and our families (though not always our parents, with the demands and responsibilities they place on us) first — and quite properly so, we are told, for the avenue to social change lies in our perfect children.