Sentences with phrase «parents live a couple»

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As I saw with my parents, who were happily married for 39 years, couples who tackle life's inevitable ups and downs with a true team mentality have a much better chance of going the distance.

I fully admit $ 100k was a gift & early inheritance, then then rest was from saving W2 income, lived with parents a couple of years, luck, and pouring almost all savings into a high cap commercial real estate deal.

«In a hostile environment, we're going to do everything we can do within the parameters of the law to ensure our freedom to continue to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ, protect and defend the sanctity of life, help couples with their marriages, help parents raise their children, and find forever homes for orphaned children,» he said.

Couples in Western societies who are free to select each other without being limited by the dictates of parents and society and who are free to work out their life trajectories together must be able to communicate with respect and justice.

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.

Isn't it important that a divorcing couple gets along amicably after divorce and that each parent stays involved in the child's life?

Tutored in the skills of shoplifting by his older sister; taught to roll a tight joint of marijuana by his mother's boyfriend; hyperactive, acne - scarred, a Saturday - night drunk, 11 - year - old Raleigh isn't equipped for adapting to a 50 - year - old foster parent couple who are members of the Jehovah's Witnesses and whose idea of indulgence is to permit him to select one 30 - minute period a night for watching television in their living room.

These plans are designed for people who live on their own, a parent who wants to indulge themselves while their kids have their favorites, couples that can't agree on what they want for dinner or caregivers providing meals to a parent or friend.

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After a couple weeks at home adjusting to the crazy life of being new parents, they were ready to get out of the house!

In our July - August 2012 issue # 83 Gay Parent magazine features the story of a lesbian couple with a young son learning to live within the homophobic society of Tanzania.

Of course, not everyone who marries wants kids but even for those who do, having a two - parent family could take many forms — it could mean the couple doesn't live together; it could mean the couple is ethically non-monogamous; it could mean the couple are friends, not romantic and sexual partners, and co-parenting the kids together; and any other combination you could imagine.

The biggest life change in many couple's lives is becoming parents.

You'd be surprised how many parents who are on the verge of divorce send their children to sleep away camp thinking that a couple of weeks without the children will give them the time to make arrangements for finding a second place to live, etc..

(This last is significant, not only because low - conflict parental relationships are positive indicators for children whether couples live together or not, but because a well functioning mother - father relationship is strongly connected with positive and substantial father - child contact, especially when parents live apart).

Even when couples break up (or have never lived together) a non resident father is likely to be more involved than a separated father was thirty years ago (Hetherington & Kelly, 2002), and many of these fathers spend a substantial time parenting alone.

She recently went to stay with her dad for a couple months (my sister never married the dad and he lives 900 miles away) and I went and spent an evening at my parents» house so I could see her for a bit before she left.

She values working with pregnant women and couples as they face difficult choices, and she appreciates the opportunity to witness the hospitious nature of adoptive parents as they welcome birth families into their lives.

Review: «Peterson covers all stages of the family unit from becoming a couple to raising teenagers in order to help parents understand and efficiently negotiate the normal, varied stages of the family life cycle.

This timely book describes the family life stages, from «Becoming a Couple,» to «Becoming Parents,» to «Raising Adolescents» and «Launching Children.»

Teething is a common frustration to many babes and parents as they grow an amazing 20 teeth in the first couple of years of life, starting around 4 to 7 months of age usually.

Differences in parenting is an area where many couples struggle, and it can lead to divorce or living with resentment when it goes unresolved.

Being parents of a newborn baby is the sweetest event in every couple life.

«But since we decided to [forgo marriage and just] live together as parents, the stress to be the perfect couple has been eliminated.

Being self - employed, and being a couple with mutual respect for one another's careers, has meant that honestly not much changed in our working lives as a result of being parents.

Co-parenting is tough even when you're in a loving relationship with someone and happy couples sometimes struggle to come to a parenting decision they can both live with.

Psychologist Robert Bauserman's study showed that couples who have joint custody reported less conflict than those where one parent had sole custody, possibly because both parents could participate in their children's lives equally.

Mindful parenting means nonjudgmental awareness of what is happening in our lives and in the lives of our children at each moment, coupled with a deep concentrated attention to those moments.

The blog highlights inspiring family stories, parenting advice, and episodes from their YouTube channel, where the couple discusses parenting, current events, activism, and life in general.

While Gina makes a relatable point about the life of a working parent with a baby at home, the tension - filled scene sexualizes breastfeeding by conflating the couple's physical relationship and her need to express breast milk.

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

Whether a couple (or single parent) has been trying and trying for many months, got pregnant their first go - round, or made more of a surprise transition toward parenthood, babies are quite often seen as some of the most happy and miraculous changes that occur in this weird and wild life.

Parenting is difficult even in the best of circumstances, and when coupled with other stressful life events, it becomes even more challenging.

(A couple of good ones include: «Parenting from the Inside Out» by Daniel Siegal and Mary Hartzell, and for the parents of teenagers, «Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall» by Anthony E. Wolf.)

Among parents who are married or living with a partner, dual - income couples are the most egalitarian couples, even though they do not divide up their work in a 50 - 50 way.

Carolyn Pape Cowan & Philip A Cowan (1992) When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples, New York, Basic Books.

[Monday April 6, 2015] Altadena, CA — Couples, parents, individuals, supporters and friends of Five Acres are invited to participate in an uplifting conversation on the topic of positive parenting and raising happy children, at the live Twitter Chat on Thursday, April 9, 2015 @ 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.

[Monday April 6, 2015] Altadena, CA — Couples, parents, individuals, supporters and friends of Five Acres are invited to participate in an uplifting conversation on the topic of positive parenting and raising happy children, at the live Twitter Chat on Thursday, April 9, 2015 @ 11 a.m. — 1 p.m. Chief Executive Officer Chanel Boutakidis -LSB-...]

* «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...

Marisa and Terrah Pavan, a legally married lesbian couple living in Arkansas, gave birth to a baby girl in 2015 via an anonymous sperm donor; however, the Arkansas Department of Health refused to issue Marisa's name on the birth certificate and listed Terrah as the only parent.

Since 52 % of millennials told the Pew Research Center that being a good parent is «one of the most important things» in life, while a mere 30 % say the same about having a successful marriage, it's likely that more couples may indeed do that.

If you live in or about the St. Louis area, join other couples supporting one another in parenting from a place of love and respect here.

An educational program to support couples prepare for life with a new baby which increases the joy of parenting and gives new parents the tools they need to be the best parenting team possible.

Co-parenting is difficult enough when a couple is married and living together, but can be doubly hard when parents are separated.

I always like to say to my clients we can not compare our insides to someone's outside you don't know what's going on in their lives and maybe this is really important for this couple to reconnect and to have a break as you know being a new parent is twenty - four seven and it can be really tough to adjust to that.

«A lot of couples come here to get married because their parents did or because they've lived [in Naperville] their entire lives,» said Floeter.

To give you and your baby the best start in life, spend some time with an It's Aparent parenting coach to prepare for the changes a baby brings to a couple and family.

The young babies are at a very critical developmental stage in the first couple years of life, so parents worry about chemicals and metals and artificial things, and parents just want to be careful.

The conference released a report that found married couples spent 12.6 percent of their income on child care, while single parents are spending 45.1 percent — compounding an ever - increasing cost in living for housing in the New York City.

Yet a two - income couple living next door to a single parent or a set of grandparents could miss out altogether on the hundreds of dollars Cuomo wants to send back to property tax payers each year.