Sentences with phrase «predominantly white mothers»

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The mothers were predominantly white (84 % compared to 72 % nationally in 2010)[29], older, and more likely to be well educated and employed with fewer children.

«This will be the greatest learning experience of your life,» my mother told me on my second day at a predominantly white public school.

Born in Los Angeles in 1961, as a child he shuttled daily between the predominantly black neighbourhood of Leimert Park, where his mother worked as a hairdresser, and the predominantly white Santa Monica neighbourhood, where they lived.

Works such as In Other Folks Homes ($ 2,000 - $ 4,000) and I Have Given the World My Songs ($ 1,500 - $ 2,500) by Elizabeth Catlett illustrate the turbulent time of the integration of African - Americans into a predominantly white urban society while her Torture of Mothers ($ 800 - $ 1,200) and Angela Libre ($ 1,500 - $ 2,500) reflect the ongoing civil rights movement of the 1970s.

The program originally developed in Elmira served primarily white, rural adolescent mothers (400 mothers, divided into four different treatment groups) for whom data are available through the child's fifteenth birthday.27 It was replicated in Memphis with an urban sample of 1,139 predominantly African American adolescent mothers and their children who have been followed through age nine28 and in Denver with an ethnically diverse sample of 735 low - income mothers and their children who have been followed through age four.29 Beginning in 1996, NFP programs began expanding to other states using a mix of private, local, and federal funds.

In brief, about 89 % of the participating mothers were ethnic Norwegian, recruited from all over Norway from 1999 to 2008, and were predominantly white Caucasians [39].