Sentences with phrase «proportion of children born»

Measured solely by the increase in the proportion of children born out of wedlock, the trend across Europe is almost uniformly negative.

The proportion of children born to unmarried couples in the USA has increased in recent years (see below graph).

Pearlstein quotes a Swedish demographer: «The USA stands out as an extreme case with its very high proportion of children born to a lone mother, with a higher probability that children experience a union disruption than anywhere else...»

A calculation made by Dr Jensen — based on a 33 % overall increased risk of psychiatric disorders in children born to women with fertility problems and on the proportion of children born in Denmark following fertility treatment — suggests that 1.9 % of all diagnosed psychiatric disorders in Denmark are associated with the mother's infertility.

Not exact matches

In an issue of the Intercollegian as late as 1948, Paul Popenoe, author of the widely used textbook Applied Eugenics, warns readers that «too large a proportion» of children are «born in homes which can give them the worst start in every way.

A feeling of guilt so out of proportion with what my life was, is it inscribed in the nature of every child born into this world (the moral law within us, according to Kant, attests the existence of God), or is it a deformation occurring in infancy, imposed upon the Christians of my kind, and which I have not known how to cure?

Of the 8000 children born to these veterans, the proportion with defects rose from 1.1 per cent born to veterans with no known exposure, to 1.9 per cent for light exposure, 2.2 per cent for moderate exposure and 5.1 per cent for high exposure.

For example, wealthier families tend to have fewer children than other families, and so have a higher proportion of first - borns who also have access to more resources that may influence their IQ or personality, she said.

According to a recent study by chemist Jeffrey Weidenhamer of Ashland University in Ohio, the lead in recalled children's jewelry bears a proportion of tin and copper that are «consistent with an origin from recovered solder.»

That proportion increased to 36 percent for babies born toward the end of the study (from 2008 to 2011), with the best outcomes for children born at 23 and 24 weeks.

(3) To avoid doubt, in proceedings in which an independent children's lawyer for a child has been appointed, the court may make an order under subsection (2) as to costs or security for costs, whether by way of interlocutory order or otherwise, to the effect that each party to the proceedings bears, in such proportion as the court considers just, the costs of the independent children's lawyer in respect of the proceedings.

(b) the court considers that a party to the proceedings would suffer financial hardship if the party had to bear a proportion of the costs of the independent children's lawyer;