Sentences with phrase «pressure vulnerable families»

As Nicholas Confessore wrote in The Times this week, other stealth bills include an effort by the funeral home industry to be allowed to sell package deals, an unfair way to pressure vulnerable families.

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Murray Bowen has been examining the forces in contemporary society that increase stress on families and render them highly vulnerable to dysfunction — e.g., the frantic pace of life, the loss of supportive contact with the extended family, the pressures caused by the population explosion and the depletion of nonrenewable resources.

Critics of assisted suicide say it devalues human life and could put the most vulnerable under pressure from family, doctors and insurance companies to take advantage of the option.

Keeping Kids Cosy aims to improve the health and well being of vulnerable families with young children and reduce the pressure on health and social services.

Moynihan was convinced that what he was witnessing was fundamentally a phenomenon of the black community, and so could be explained by the tragic history of African Americans, which rendered black families uniquely vulnerable to the kind of social and economic pressures many faced in poor urban environments.

From negative comments on social media to pressures to look a certain way, the well - being of young people is at risk,» said the minister for vulnerable children and families, Edward Timpson

Another serious flaw in the OPG's message, is that in suggesting that anyone can make an LPA and it is easy to do so, vulnerable people may find themselves pressured to enter into an arrangement allowing financial access to difficult family members, carers or friends that do not have their best interests at heart.

Nevertheless, other pressures, such as social stigma, may interfere with parenting in these families, leaving the children vulnerable to emotional or behavioural problems.