Sentences with phrase «parent over a couple»

And if that means choosing a single adoptive parent over a couple, so be it.

If I had to select one feat that has made me a great parent over these couple last years, it is this: my son has never worn a pair of pants without an elastic waist band.

Not exact matches

A single conversation over a couple of beers reveals the prosaic truth: decent pay and benefits, a lot like their parents had.

In light of the exhaustive research my co-author and I did on the parenting marriage model in The New I Do, I've come to appreciate the many ways people arrive to parenthood and the many creative ways couples are parenting once their romantic and sexual relationship is over — like actress Maria Bello's thoroughly modern take on co-parenting.

Cut back on uniform expenses: One parent suggested eliminating separate home and away uniform jerseys and shorts (which can cost over $ 100 per set) and going instead to single reversible jerseys and plain gym shorts, saving at least a couple of thousand dollars.

However, because some parents have voiced their concerns over some of these mind numbing games in the last couple of years, the toy developers have now come out with a few educational games that your child will enjoy playing.

In the newest generation of parents there are increasing numbers of higher earning mothers, and fathers willing to take on more of the care of children; in many couples both partners work full - time — but the childcare costs which hamper the poorest in entering the workforce also lead to difficulties for parents sustaining employment over time.

I've spoken with quite a few parents over the past couple of months on the 1 - on - 1 Coaching service who have been struggling with a son or daughter who decided they didn't want to go to college.

A significant part of Dorothy's research has focused on the psychological fertility issues of non-traditional families, including publications on psychological considerations in older prospective parents (i.e., women and men over 35) and in same - sex couples.

Well, the Spence - Chapin Adoption Agency in New York City is on the look out for volunteers and they are welcoming of singles, couples, the LGBT community, and those who are already parents (as long as you are over 25 years of age).

«Our findings suggest that children had fewer behavior problems over time when their parents were less stressed (and had more satisfying couple relationships),» Farr said.

Watch API over the next couple months as we reveal the many exciting activities and events — online and locally — in connection with AP Month 2016: «Nurturing Peace: Parenting for World Harmony.»

Romy Karz Rapoport [phone] lovethebirth.com [email protected] Romy has Worked with over 50 couples helping to empower parents to Love the Birth!

Men have, of course, become much more involved parents over the past couple of decades, and that, too, suggests broad support for big changes in the way we balance work and family.

The young couple, my amazing husband and I, encountered strong criticism of our parenting choices over and over through the years from many, and a refusal to accept or accommodate those choices from some.

This will reflect over parenting activity and life as a couple.

The name Lily has been quite the popular choice for celebrity parents over the last couple of decades.

Since 2005, we have worked with single parents, heterosexual and gay couples in over 15 countries and helped them to bring over 1,000 babies into the world.

The Surrogacy Process Explained: What Intended Parents Need to Know Over the past few decades, surrogacy has become a viable solution for couples throughout the U.S. who are unable to have a child of their own.

The reasons for this disapproval are manifold: that co sleeping increases the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) due to a parent rolling over on to or otherwise inadvertently smothering the child, that it increases a child's dependence on the parents for falling asleep, that it may interfere with the intimacy of a couple, and that process of separation when the child eventually sleeps apart from the parents may be difficult.

Although I have worked with couples in a variety of formats over many years — birth and parent preparation, The Birth Empowerment Workshop ®, and relationship counselling and therapy — I have recently become a Certified Becoming Us ™ Facilitator, which has really upped my game for helping couples navigate the transition as they grow from partners into parents.

According to current statistics, in the U.S. today women make up 50 % of the workforce (The Shriver Report, 2009) and dual - career couples comprise over 70 % of two parent households with children (Bianchi, 2008).

* «Historic low» for households with married parents and children * More Americans now living alone, data show * Nearly 800,000 more households include out - of - work parent By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters)- The iconic picture of the traditional American household has faded over the last four decades as the number of married couples with children has seen a steep decline and more people are living alone, according to U.S. Census...

Over the past couple years, Project Nursery has been rolling out their own line of smart devices for the home from monitors to their awesome Smart Band, these are smart baby must haves that every expectant and new parent should check out — especially techies.

If sole custody is awarded, one parent gains exclusive physical and legal custody over the couple's child.

But she resigned in protest because she didn't like the way the issue was handled by the school district, which had been facing mounting pressure over the past couple of weeks from parents who wanted to retain Kaleida's longtime pediatric nurses.

[Angelina Grigoryeva: When Gender Trumps Everything: The Division of Parent Care among Siblings] The data originated from the 2004 portion of the Health and Retirement Survey, a national study that samples more than 26,000 Americans over the age of 50 every couple of years.

The National Embryo Donation Center says the adoptive couple will be recognized as the legal parents on the birth certificate, but it's probably a good idea to have a lawyer look over the informed consent documents.

Usually people say this kind of thing to couples who have been together a long time without becoming parents yet, but there's no need to make a big speech to someone about your surprise over their choice to start the parenthood journey.

In our parents» day (assuming you're over the age of 25) couples seemed to have the same

Single parent dating websites can make the whole dating process much easier, and there are couples all over the world who started their relationships through online dating.

Kate Bosworth and Thomas Jane star as a married couple who try to get over their son's death by foster - parenting an 8 - year - old orphan (a pre-Room Jacob Tremblay) who's been passed from one home to another under mysterious circumstances.

Little Men (PG for smoking, mature themes and mild epithets) Coming - of - age drama, set in Brooklyn, about a couple of teen BFFs (Theo Taplitz and Michael Barbieri) whose friendship is tested by the tension between their parents locked in a landlord - tenant battle over the rent.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

A Google search from just the past couple of years pulled up hundreds of stories with headlines like, «Parent furious over school's plan to teach gender spectrum» and «Maine school under fire for reading transgender children's books to kindergarteners without telling their parents.»

In his effort to «win» over (aka snow) teachers, parents and public school advocates, Malloy's plan appears to be to push off a couple of elements of his corporate education reform industry agenda until he can make it past November's election for governor.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

Even the charter schools: She's told parents that a couple of schools were going to be closed, Hawthorne Ave. being one of them... [She said] it's going to be turned over to King's [Academy].

Over the last few weeks, Comixology's role within parent company Amazon has gotten much stronger: Amazon is now part of the CX logo, you can log in to Comixology with your Amazon account, and as a couple of people pointed out, purchasing a book from Comixology is now linked directly from the main entry for a book.

It does nothing for single parents, couples in the lowest tax bracket or in the same higher tax bracket, or couples with children over 18.

NDP: Create 1 million new child care spaces over the next eight years and cap their cost at $ 15 per day; add five weeks of parental leave for the second parent, extending the program to include same - sex couples and adoptive parents; doubling parental leave time for parents of multiples; provide regular EI access to parents who find themselves out of work after taking parental leave.

Despite a small inheritance and some help from their parents, the couple have been searching for a home they can afford for over a year now.

Over Memorial Day weekend, Childerson and his wife, Jennifer, who has a master's degree in social work, moved in with her parents in St. Louis, allowing the couple to put the $ 850 a month they had been paying in rent toward their loans.

An avid and experienced foster parent, many of the dogs in our program over the past couple of years have spent at least one night with her «pack».

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These particular affidavits generally address: (1) whether marriage has been an exclusively heterosexual institution over time and across cultures; (2) the evolving nature of marriage in Canada; (3) whether the meaning of the word «marriage» is capable of including same - sex couples; and (4) the results of research regarding lesbian and gay parenting.

The special master program, as it was known, was intended to address the needs of the small percentage of separated couples who found themselves embroiled in frequent parenting disputes over often insignificant issues, and used a disproportionate amount of court resources as a result.

I have watched my ex's council flat out lie to judges over the last couple years to prevent myself any more parenting time than a couple hours a week, I have gotten reports of my daughters worsening behavior and school and in other social activities The few adults that were in her life that I could trust to try and look out for her and be there to provide support have slowly been weeded out of her life by her mother because they dared criticize her treatment of the children.

In light of their prior lows, the recency of their turnaround and the perceived fragility of their situation (in part having regard to the potential impacts of his work - related absence on her state of being), the province and its representatives remained convinced that the best interests of the children would be served by securing permanent guardianship as a precursor to facilitating the adoption of the children by the couple who had for over a year served as foster parents.

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to rule on the rights of non-Indian couples to adopt an Indian child over the objection of a parent who is a tribal member.