Sentences with phrase «parents of large families»

But Vail charges only $ 500 to $ 1,000 because she works in the religious Jewish community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where the parents of large families can not afford $ 3,500 for a birth attendant.

Ah — but many parents of large families find the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks.

Parents of large families in which older children have already moved on to adult life report a «squash and a squeeze» effect where each child's birth makes the house a little less bearable until breaking point is almost reached... then older children spend the day at school, then they're off to university and adult life, and slowly the house becomes almost unbearably large.

Not exact matches

Trump's plans would lower taxes for most Americans but would raise taxes on some large families and single parents because of the elimination of some exemptions.

My parents had a complicated relationship with alcohol; not exactly personally although there was some of that but within their larger story of family and friends.

Uniquely among parties in Western Europe, Lega proposes the economic incentivization of larger families and the subsidization of parents in the home.

We already know of course that larger families point to pro-life parents.

These homeschooling families tend to be large: eight children here, nine there, a dozen over there, each set of siblings accompanied by their parents.

On the terrain of conservative Protestantism, especially in the regions and social classes where families remain large and strong and where leaders are motivated to send out fleets of buses to scoop up the young while parents are slugabed, any talk of the Sunday school being in trouble would not be comprehensible.

when we got there, there was a large crowd of family and friends gathered on my parents» back deck.

With a large contingent of family members in the crowd, including her parents who were born in South Korea, Kim emphatically affirmed her status as the pre-games favorite in the halfpipe.

The children reflect the cultural make - up of the borough, with a number of single parent families; a few remarried parents; some only children; some children who come from large families with up - to eight children; and some looked - after children.

But the good news is that while these mothers were struggling, the majority, in fact, seemed to be raising their families well in large part because they rejected the myth of intensive parenting in their own lives.

The Joys of the Large Family Being a parent can sometimes be a bit confusing or overwhelming.

A former director of one of Minnesota's largest Early Childhood Family Education programs, Mary is the founder of the Spirited Child and Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles workshops.

Large families are the subject of reality shows, best - selling books and now the recent controversy over the mother of Octuplets — these have all stirred up conversations about parenting capabilities and responsibilities.

A new study from the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) reveals that the large majority of parents believe technology has a positive effect on their child's future, career and life skills (78 %) and creativity (64 %).

13, 2015, among 1,807 U.S. parents with children younger than 18, also shows that in two - parent families, parenting and household responsibilities are shared more equally when both the mother and the father work full time than when the father is employed full time and the mother is employed part time or not employed.1 But even in households where both parents work full time, many say a large share of the day - to - day parenting responsibilities falls to mothers.

Large - scale studies reveal a number of social disadvantages in young fathers» families, such as low levels of parental education, large family size, not being raised by both birth parents and financial hardLarge - scale studies reveal a number of social disadvantages in young fathers» families, such as low levels of parental education, large family size, not being raised by both birth parents and financial hardlarge family size, not being raised by both birth parents and financial hardship.

In fact, it appears the sheer amount of time parents spend with their kids between the ages of 3 and 11 has virtually no relationship to how children turn out, and a minimal effect on adolescents, according to the first large - scale longitudinal study of parent time to be published in April in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

Rivers views the parents who engaged in these custody battles as «part of a larger resistance movement that challenged heterosexist, racist, and misogynistic attitudes about the proper structure of the American family.»

Parenting programs have been successful at teaching positive parenting techniques and improving behaviour of children.5 Given that a large proportion of the population needs to be taught, education will need to reach beyond just families with overt Parenting programs have been successful at teaching positive parenting techniques and improving behaviour of children.5 Given that a large proportion of the population needs to be taught, education will need to reach beyond just families with overt parenting techniques and improving behaviour of children.5 Given that a large proportion of the population needs to be taught, education will need to reach beyond just families with overt problems.

In other words, the parents of families with one or two children often lose the perspective that larger families have.

ZERO TO THREE, in partnership with the Bezos Family Foundation, conducted a comprehensive research effort, including a series of in - home discussions and a large national parent survey with a diverse range of parents of children from birth to 5.

Family Week in Provincetown, Massachusetts is the largest annual gathering of LGBTQ parents and their children in the world.

Gay fathers tend to be economically well - off, one means by which their children may garner social advantages relative to other children, while additional research has shown that children of gay fathers did not report differences in sex - typed behaviour compared with parents of other family configurations.58 A large literature shows that parents tend to transmit values to their children along socioeconomic status lines, with middle class parents typically imparting different values from parents in lower socioeconomic strata.59, 60 However, little of this work has examined fathers in particular, as distinct from mothers.

Extreme Parenting A chronicle of life as a large family that includes adoption, special needs and homeschooling.

Millions of fathers today — some by choice, others out of necessity — are taking on larger and more diverse roles in parenting and family life.

For new parents with little ones (0 - 2 years of age) or teens, hosting a large family gathering to celebrate the adoption of your child might be something that you do right away.

She is a regular travel contributor to Family Fun magazine, the second largest parenting magazine in the United States with a circulation of 21 million readers.

No study has shown, however, that the goals for separateness and independence (or happiness, for that matter) are obtained in the individual by, among other things, separate sleeping arrangements for parents and children, nor do any studies demonstrate negative consequences for children or parents who choose to cosleep for ideological or emotional purposes, except when cosleeping is part of a larger psychologically disordered set of family relationships or when cosleeping occurs under dangerous social or physical circumstances.

I write here often about teaching children, but one of the most important things we do is to also teach their parents, which is done formally through our parent educators, and informally by our larger community of families who are, collectively, striving to offer children the opportunity to acquire the skills and attributes of success through play.

In San Francisco, You can try GGMG.org which is the Golden Gate Mother's Group — $ 55 annual membership fee gets you a monthly newsletter, invitation to monthly meetings (with speakers), playgroup affiliation, LARGE email group for advice / info, discounts to certain area venues (SF Zoo discounted membership / museums), holiday parties, tons of area activities for parents / kids / families, etc...

Washington, D.C. — A new study from the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) reveals that the large majority of parents believe technology has a positive effect on their child's future, career and life skills (78 %) and creativity (64 %).

Although some research is establishing a relationship between breastfeeding and improved psychosocial functioning, a large number of parent and family factors have also been shown to predict child psychosocial maladjustment.

Child poverty reduced dramatically between 1998/9 -2010 / 12 when 1.1 million children were lifted out of poverty (BHC).9 This reduction is credited in large part to measures that increased the levels of lone parents working, as well as real and often significant increases in the level of benefits paid to families with children.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the dire need for more schools Downtown, as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the need for more schools Downtown as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

Low - income, working parents and the family child care providers who take care of their kids were dealt a heavy blow when Mayor Michael Bloomberg cut child care subsidies for more than 16,500 New York City children, the single largest cut to city funding for child care since the 1970s.

Because young families also need a room for their children, it is those young parents, mostly single mums in their twenties, who claim the large majority of the housing benefit that Cameron is seeking to cut.

«What is most likely the case is that the parent body [of this family] was water - ice - rich, was broken up, and now the surface of its largest fragment, Themis, has been impact - excavated, revealing the ice that was once deep in a larger object,» says Britney Schmidt of UCLA, who was not affiliated with Campins's study.

The psychologists also studied the gender and ethnic similarities and differences between Hispanic parents and the larger general population of non-Hispanic families.

Researchers tested a number of hypotheses, among them whether more unexpected births and larger families might be associated with parents being less happy than child - free people.

With spanking a public health concern, this approach offers a simple way to reach a large audience to change attitudes and reduce parents» reliance on corporal punishment, said Holden, who was recently elected president of Dallas» oldest child abuse prevention agency, Family Compass.

Out of all the children, boys, children from larger families, as well as those with more cognitive, motor or behaviour problems, and poorer parent - infant relationships in infancy, had fewer friends, met them less and were less accepted by them.

«Child abuse rises in connection with soldiers» deployments: Large study explores child maltreatment patterns in families of US Army soldier - parents.»

Using a newly assembled sample population called the Simons Simplex Collection which included about 1000 families, consisting of both birth parents and in most cases two children, one with ASD and the other unaffected, Wigler and colleagues saw the earlier - observed effect, only «this time on a much larger scale.»

The deCODE team was able to develop such a large dataset and catalogue of these mutations correlating whole - genome sequence data from thousands of individuals and multiple generations of families with information on the age of parents at the time their children were born.

Wendie is a board member of Parents Via Egg Donation, the largest support group for families going through the process of using donor eggs.

This past holiday season, my family including my brother in - law, brothers, parents and grandmother were all staying at my sister's house in Whidbey Island, Washington, and I found myself spending most of the time in the kitchen creating recipes to feed the large group.