Sentences with phrase «reducing child marriage»

The Northern Regional Director of the NCCE, Alhaji Abdul Razak Saani, told Citi News that the program is aimed eliminating or reducing child marriage and other forms of child abuses and to get the children in school especially the girl - child, for them to have some level of formal education.

Plan International supported ICRW to facilitate a workshop and redevelop a program model and program document for 18 +: Ending Child Marriages in Southern Africa, Plan's sub-regional program that aims to reduce child marriages in four participating countries of Southern Africa, namely Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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In Gall's case, this juxtaposition not only reduces philosophy and theology to mere «bluster,» thereby liberating us to act without thinking seriously; it suggests that none of the consequences that follow from, for example, the codification of same - sex marriage — the redefinition of kinship, the irrevocable technologizing of human «reproduction,» further expansion of the «new eugenics,» deliberate creation of three - parent households, and least of all, the fate of children conceived in this brave new world — even provoke questions of human import worth thinking seriously about.

In 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only as a man: • adultery has lost its moral significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitous.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Confronting children marriage head - on is one of the key things that they want to focus on in reducing child mortality and preventable child deaths.»

These attempts generally fall into four categories: reducing non-marital births, boosting marriage, helping young men become more marriageable, and helping single mothers improve their and their children's lives.

«Learning better skills as parents will not only improve a child's function, but help them resolve disagreements and reduce or minimize stress within the marriage.»

As the main findings concern women who have never married, improved financial stability increases the bargaining power of women entering marriage, thus reducing domestic abuse and divorce, while improving outcomes for children.

Increased education levels lead to increased job opportunities and faster economic growth, concern about the environment and a more tolerant society, reduce early births and child marriages, and save the lives of mothers and children (UNESCO, Education Transforms Lives).

But the central thesis, however presented, is hardly contestable: the fragmentation of the American family, in which the norm of two parents raising children in a marriage has been radically reduced by the increase of children born and raised out of wedlock, engenders grave problems for many American children and American society.

More generally, Europe's child - focused social policies, which reduce the stress on dual - income families with children, should be studied closely for their marriage - enhancing qualities.

a) marriage rates have dropped in half in the last 50 years; yet cohabitating married couples, who have children after age 21, reduce their chances of poverty to under 5 %.

The tax act also expands the child credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), reduces marriage penalties, increases subsides for education and retirement saving, repeals the limitations on itemized deductions and phaseouts of personal exemptions, and provides temporary, limited relief from the alternative minimum tax (AMT), a complex law that was designed to prevent aggressive tax sheltering but primarily affects large families or residents of states with high income taxes.

-- Reduces or even eliminates some divorce battles — Specifies how to divide business income and future income — Specifies how to handle any property one or both spouses owned independently before marrying — If one or both spouses have children from a previous marriage, specific language in a prenup helps protect those children if divorce occurs — Unlike similar agreements made after marriage (postnup agreements), a prenup holds up better in court — Sets predetermined guidelines for fair and equitable property division

In determining the amount and duration of maintenance the court shall consider: (A) the income and property of the respective parties including marital property distributed pursuant to subdivision five of this part; (B) the duration of the marriage and the age and health of both parties; (C) the present and future earning capacity of both parties; (D) the ability of the party seeking maintenance to become self - supporting and, if applicable, the period of time and training necessary therefor; (E) reduced or lost lifetime earning capacity of the party seeking maintenance as a result of having foregone or delayed education, training, employment, or career opportunities during the marriage; (F) the presence of children of the marriage in the respective homes of the parties; (G) the tax consequences to each party; (H) contributions and services of the party seeking maintenance as a spouse, parent, wage earner and homemaker, and to the career or career potential of the other party; (I) the wasteful dissipation of marital property by either spouse; (J) any transfer or encumbrance made in contemplation of a matrimonial action without fair consideration; and (K) any other factor which the court shall expressly find to be just and proper.

Protector Plus offers you the option to increase the sum assured by 5 % or 10 % every year and ePreferred Term offers you to increase the sum assured at certain important events like buying a new house, marriage, child birth, 3rd and 5th policy anniversary etc. and at a later stage of life when your financial liabilities and financial responsibilities have reduced you can even reduce the cover.

although i do not have any medical problem but write now i have gained some weight, from last one year (after marriage, i hope u understand that) i want to know 1 should i reduced some weight and then go for policy 2 how much sum assured should i take as only dependent right now i have is my wife but in near future i was expecting my child and mother father will also depend on me.

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There are few research or intervention programs designed to identify and address the specific needs of sandwiched individuals like myself to help them cope better.2 We know that members of the sandwiched generation (who care for young children and aging parents) often face burnout in their marriages, 2 which is feeling emotionally, physically, and mentally exhausted about the relationship.3 One group of researchers found that sandwiched couples who withdraw socially (e.g., pull away from friends) tend to have the worst well - being compared to those who do not withdraw.4 Although sandwiched women typically reduce the their work hours (or quit their jobs altogether) more than men in order to cope with stress, 5 I have never had that luxury due to always being the sole breadwinner.

While the most misogynistic branches of the father's rights movement state outright that they favor male control and father - only custody in the hopes that this will turn the clock back on women's independence (e.g. by helping to entrap women in marriages that are otherwise broken), much of the movement prefers to publicly posture in favor of the more palatable and misleading rhetoric of «shared parenting,» i.e. joint custody, as a ruse to accomplish this end more indirectly, as well as to reduce or eliminate the foundations for child support payments.

Sometimes in marriage, talking gets reduced to household bills and children.

, and demonstrates that promoting marriage has been an ineffective way of reducing poverty among single mothers and their children.

Marriage offers several benefits: tax - related pluses, reduced likelihood of poverty, economic security, and children do much better when raised in stable two - parent households.

Parents who end their marriage in a mature and healthy way can reduce the negative effects of divorce on their children.

«You can strengthen marriages in your community, reduce divorce and cohabitation, and serve the needs of children, by joining with others to participate in National Marriage Week USA,» encourages Marriage Week Organizers.

By providing young couples with the tools needed to build healthy, stable marriages, the Marriage Initiative would substantially reduce future rates of welfare dependence, child poverty, domestic violence, and other social ills.

Marriage can have a dramatic effect in reducing child poverty.If poor single mothers were married to the fathers of their children, nearly 70 percent would be immediately lifted out of poverty.

[16] Rector et al., & ldquo; Increasing Marriage Will Dramatically Reduce Child Poverty.

Rector et al., «Increasing Marriage Will Dramatically Reduce Child Poverty.»

Marriage programs would also provide marriage and relationship education to unmarried couples at the «magic moment» of a child's birth and offer marriage - skills training to low - income married couples to improve marriage quality and reduce the likelihood of Marriage programs would also provide marriage and relationship education to unmarried couples at the «magic moment» of a child's birth and offer marriage - skills training to low - income married couples to improve marriage quality and reduce the likelihood of marriage and relationship education to unmarried couples at the «magic moment» of a child's birth and offer marriage - skills training to low - income married couples to improve marriage quality and reduce the likelihood of marriage - skills training to low - income married couples to improve marriage quality and reduce the likelihood of marriage quality and reduce the likelihood of divorce.

Addressing a common, destructive pattern in marriages, this guide helps couples reduce the distance in their marriage, thereby reducing the emotional baggage projected onto the children.

Putting marriage first also reduces the temptation of parents to look to the children to fulfill their intimacy needs, freeing children to grow into their own identity and learn self - reliance as they pursue their own passions.

[ANONYMOUS LISTSERVE COMMENT]: «I haven't seen any research on this... However, in 20 + years of experience working with divorced families, I have no doubt that fathers who were pretty hands - off during the marriage become much more active and involved during the divorce and that, fortunately, many of them sustain this involvement in the post-divorce period... cynical dads who are concerned with punishing their ex, using the children as a bargaining chip, or reducing their exposure to child support [are unlikely] to convincingly and consistently sustain such playacting for any period of time.»

Spending quality time together without the children can help strengthen your marriage, reduce your stress, and help you to be better parents together.