Sentences with phrase «parent places a child»

I have stood beside tiny coffins as parents placed their children's bodies in the ground.
For most of the 20th century, adoptions were largely «closed,» meaning birth parents placed their child with an adoption agency and had no further contact unless the child sought them out later in life.
In total, about 81 percent of parents placed their child in a private or public school of choice three years after winning the scholarship lottery, as did 46 percent of those who lost the lottery.
And in many day - to - day ways, we as parents place our children's happiness above their caring about others.
Finally, in discussing the OSP's impact on expanding school choice for parents, Professor Wolf relates that approximately 81 percent of parents placed their child in a private or public school of choice three years after winning the scholarship lottery, as did 46 percent of those who lost the lottery.
The collaborative professionals with Collaborative Divorce Network strive to assist the parents placing the children in the center and not the middle!
Among other factors, the court will look closely at whether a parent places the child's needs ahead of his own and the extent to which one parent encourages the other parent's relationship with the child.
When birth parents place their child with an adoptive family in an open adoption, the two families agree to a post adoption contact agreement (a legally binding document) according to the birth parents wishes.
The main purpose of the Act is to amend the Adoption Act 2010 to provide: • that married parents may place a child for adoption, on a voluntary basis, in circumstances where both parents place the child for adoption and where both parents consent to the making of the adoption order; • for revised criteria so that where an application to adopt a child is made in respect of a child who is in the custody of and who has had a home with the applicants for a period of at least 18 months, and where that child's parents have failed in their parental duty towards that child for a continuous period of not less than 36 months, the High Court may dispense with parental consent and authorise the Adoption Authority to make an adoption order in respect of that child; • that the best interests of the child is the paramount consideration in relation to any matter, application or proceedings under the Adoption Act 2010 and that the views of the child shall be ascertained by the Adoption Authority or by the court, as the case may be, and shall be given due weight, having regard to the age and maturity of the child.

Not exact matches

This inexpensive system of Internet - connected sensors placed on objects within a person's home tracks activity so adult children can ascertain if a parent is taking their medication, opening the refrigerator, visiting the bathroom, or leaving the house.
They also sidestep some safety concerns, as some parents had been forced to place their child in a traditional cart's basket and place groceries on top of them.
San Francisco mother Joan Barnes created the Gymboree Play and Music program in 1976 when she couldn't find a safe place for new parents and children to play and exercise together.
With its state license for 116 students; lucrative tuition subsidies for single parents, available from North Carolina's Child Care Resources program; and expertise with children, from infants to after - schoolers (up to age 12), this business could advance as quickly as a 2 - year - old — if placed in the care of a growth - minded new owner.
San Francisco mother Joan Barnes created the Gymboree Play & Music Program in 1976 when she couldn't find a safe place for new parents and children to play and exercise together.
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.
The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.
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«We wanted to create a place that children can achieve their best while parents have the peace of mind knowing that their children are safe, having fun, cared for and enjoying their time in child care.»
The previous executive director of the Prince Edward County Children's Aid Society is facing several criminal charges related to the placing of children with foster parents he knew werChildren's Aid Society is facing several criminal charges related to the placing of children with foster parents he knew werchildren with foster parents he knew were unfit.
In Finland, universal early childhood education and childcare (ECEC) means that if a child's parents want her / him to attend, the municipality in which they live is obliged to provide them with a place irrespective of the parents» work / life situation.
No good purpose would come of having these people prosecuted and the children placed in foster care while the parents served out their terms in jail.
So we learned about generations of indigenous children who had been removed from their homes, their parents, their communities, and their families to be placed in government - sponsored religious schools beginning officially in 1880 so the «Indian» could be educated out of them.
Here's a Bible teaching that is not good for children, especially sons, nor for their parents, is found at Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 which commands, «If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
What if, as it has been suggested in articles cited above, «boomerang children» place an unfair burden on their parents?
Christian education is in the world and for the world... man must work out his salvation in the concrete situation in which God has placed him; not by protection but by contributing to the whole human community of which he is an integral and inseparable part... parents, who have the first and the inalienable right and duty to educate their children, should enjoy true freedom in the choice of their schools, etc..»
Adding to the uncertainty is the failure of some Bishops to prevent their adoption agencies dropping their Catholic identity and agreeing to being open to placing children with same sex parents, subjecting such children to the experience of «genderless parenting».
Long story short, we were forced to move from California to Mississippi, the place where I was born and left as a child and my parents retired too some years ago.
A «natural grouping» is a small social unit made up of people whose fives are in some measure interlaced and who provide for each other a stable context in which the orderly transmission of values can take place from parents to children.
Or will they seek to do away with the beloved child in order to usurp the favored place in the Parent's affection?
But this part of her argument raises another question: If people's love for their children can motivate them to make heroic efforts to be good parents after divorce, couldn't the same amount of effort be expended to make many of the marriages work in the first place?
A person comes to accept others, in Rogers's opinion, through his acceptance of himself, and this in turn takes place through the acceptance of the child by the parent or of the client by the therapist.
The program was started by President Barack Obama, who set it in place as a way of protecting children who are undocumented as a result of being brought into the country by parents, guardians or other adults when they were too young to have a say.
From this statement of the ideal of family love it should by no means be inferred that wants and satisfactions have no place in family life, nor that parents ought to make no demands upon their children.
They isolate their play places with sound - proofed glass and have tables for the parents just on the other side so that they can keep on eye on their kids without having to endure the ear - splitting shrieks that inevitably follow (and yes, I have a child).
Carolyn Bunting, from Internet Matters, told Premier: «Without parental controls in place, children can access content that's inappropriate like pornography, like violence, like crime... which I don't think parents would want their children to see.
It's true that all men and women are created equal and ARE mothers and fathers and parents and children and made to live in a world in which they are both free and welcome and so have a personal place.
I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.
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.
Jehovah's will let their kid die before allowing a blood transfusion... they shouldn't be allowed to procreate or adopt... anyone willing to allow an innocent child to die instead of doing the right thing has no place parenting anything!
(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.
Take, for example, the common contention that Hitler acted coercively when he placed Jews in concentration camps or the claim that parents are acting coercively when they finally pick up their recalcitrant children and make them go to bed or the common contention that a government is acting coercively when it refuses to give its citizens any input into the formulation of the laws by which they are governed.
And if we see the roots of the riots in the effect upon parents of the 1989 Children Act, and the roots of such legislation in the western episcopal response to the 1968 Humanae Vitae, so we would place the roots of that neo-protestant silence in the success of the Reformation.
If parents can give a child the gift of a complicated and subtle language, they can be trusted to pass on the relatively little biological information that children need to know about sex, and in a manner that, most likely of all methods, will place it in the context of the language of love and life.
A parent (so often the mother — but the father has his important role too) who has got to know his / her child is often best placed to judge the appropriate moment to discuss particular issues with that child.
Those children at least are being loved and it is not my place or the place of anyone to judge who can make the better parent.
Too often the debate on children of divorce gets turned into a debate on whether parents should be getting divorced in the first place.
Fantasies, often frightening to the child, of taking the place of the same - sexed parent are present.
After the war, first as a priest and eventually as archbishop of Krakow, Wojtyla helped Jewish parents retrieve the children they had placed with Christian families to escape extermination.
As a parent I can identify wanting to suffer in my child's place.
What they did say is that telling a parent who's grieving that their child is «in a better place» or that «God's will was being done» is not comforting.
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