How does it change
her relationship with the children who follow?
A case planner of a child preventative service agency emphasized the needs of Chinese parents to rebuild
their relationship with the child who just returned after prolonged family separation.
Sometimes therapists attempt to initiate a separate, confidential, therapeutic
relationship with children who have insecure attachments to their new mothers and fathers.
Foster carers interested in establishing and strengthening attachment
relationships with children who have experienced attachment disruption
Creating an attachment
relationship with a child who is adopted as an infant is relatively uncomplicated compared to a child who has been exposed to various circumstances earlier such as neglect, trauma or loss of parent.
Not exact matches
We require loving
relationships with other persons, and usually a spouse and
children, to be
who we really are as relational beings.
Actually have a
relationship with God and God's other
children, and actually act like that's
who they are: family.
It often seems as the «share» the details of this
relationship that Jesus is more like a
child's imaginary friend
who is always on their side when any conflict occurs
with others rather than the Jesus
who loved people enough to tell them, without accusing or withdrawing affection, the hard truths they needed to know to encourge them to make more meaningful choices.
The dynamics of
children's social engagement
with others has changed and they have become more interested in
who is leading their group and their
relationships with them.»
You see parents
who don't have much of a
relationship with their
children.
Those believers
who are engaged in willful habitual sin run the risk of becoming
children of the devil instead of
children of God, thus severing their
relationship with God and «eternal» life itself.
There are some pastors
who are emotionally unhealthy because they have virtually abandoned family,
children, personal health, and even
relationship with God for «the mission.»
Those of us
who have been blessed
with children know all to well that our
relationships with them will mean we will always have strong connections
with them even when they are far away, it's no different
with God and his
children.
You may consider my comment insulting, but I put it to you... how would you react to a friend
who always wanted to tell you about his personal
relationship with Abe Lincoln... and wanted to tell your
children about how Abe speaks to his heart and can speak to them too.
It is healthy, however, to have meaningful
relationships with children not your own, old people
who don't share any of your genome, and people of different ethnic backgrounds and income brackets.
Whatever legal and public policy solutions are reached in the coming years, Christians need to find a social, political and religious way to secure the well - being of women and
children, involve fathers in the lives of their
children, and support gays and lesbians
who want to establish committed
relationships and receive the benefits and blessings that go
with this commitment.
My personal
relationship with Jesus Christ has nothing to do
with my disgust for men of the Church
who have been exposed and are being hid or transferred when the church is aware they are preying on
children.
It served a valuable purpose for a good while, and I don't begrudge others
who still do it, as long as they typify me or my
children as hell - bound because they don't pretend to have a sacred, personal
relationship with the creator of the universe.
Children who learn self - respect at home have been blessed
with a family in which respect for others is built into the web of family
relationships.
Who hasn't prayed over a
child, that his pain in venturing out into the world would not be too great, only to have him wandering into trouble
with cars, drugs or irresponsible
relationships?
I'm talking about a
child who disowns his parents and leaves, never again to desire a
relationship with them.
it is a logical fallacy to attempt to equate naturally occurring se - xual orientation (being g - ay),
with behavior (adultery) which is s - exual activity by someone
who is married (a civilly defined
relationship)
with someone
who has s - ex
with children.
Who knows the struggle of a Catholic parent with a non-Catholic partner, or in an irregular relationship, who comes to us seeking baptism for their chi
Who knows the struggle of a Catholic parent
with a non-Catholic partner, or in an irregular
relationship,
who comes to us seeking baptism for their chi
who comes to us seeking baptism for their
child.
Unfortunately, many men (husbands and fathers) have not led by example or had good loving
relationship with their wife and
children but become abusive, lazy, unspiritual, and the
children of those fathers begin to feel distrustful to men and could steer towards accepting women
who have possibly been more obedient to God or seem more pure.
Quite a few of us have stable
relationships, raise healthy well - educated
children, are free from addiction, vote, volunteer and donate to support causes that help make this society work, live in harmony
with people
who are different from us — I could go on, but you may get the idea that most of us do things most people would call good and have neither the inclination nor the time to do abominable things.
This new family ideal takes an entire book to elaborate (
with important questions still left unanswered), but can be briefly summarized as follows: it is the voluntary lifetime union of a woman and a man
who parent their own
children in a
relationship characterized by love, justice and equal regard.
Sometimes it's watching my
children who are young adults, finding their way in life, being in
relationship with other people.
While living abroad in Paris, the younger Malick met, married and attended Mass
with a Frenchwoman
who, like Marina, had a
child from a previous
relationship.
In a world where the religious spend a signficant amount of time pointing out the sins of others while claiming that they are in
relationship with the One
who has set the moral standards... and then a significant number of them commit one of the most heinous of crimes against
children and have leaders spend significant effort at covering it up...
What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close
relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths
who have contact
with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on
child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all
child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»
Many times,
children go along
with it because they get some enjoyment also, and often some other benefits, such as in the
relationships with the sugar daddies, passing HIV to all the very young girls (
who are at the moment and for the moment, very aesthetically pleasing).
We are sons and daughters of a loving Father,
who wants a
relationship with his
children.
Larry Bird is an out - of - wedlock father
who has not sought a close
relationship with his
child.
He was, apparently, happy at the club and only left after his
relationship with Rafa Benitez,
who was the manager at the time, deteriorated following his decision to miss a game to attend the birth of his first
child.
Sunnyreina, a person
who would treat his / her own
children that way is not someone you'd want to be in a
relationship with; that's just cruel.
I know it to be true for my
children,
who I see developing friendships, figuring out interpersonal
relationships, exploring nature
with others.
If neither parent can be a full - time caregiver, then a
child needs someone
who is not only consistent and loving, but has formed a bond
with them and consciously provides care in a way that strengthens the attachment
relationship.
What is it
with men, when I was younger no one wanted anything serious because I was divorced
with children, by the time I was in my 30s no one wanted a serious
relationship then either because I was a promo model and they didn't like other men looking at me (the exception being creeps
who did nt care about me they just wanted a trophy wife or those
who wanted «good breeding stock»), now my kids are grown and I have my own business no one wants anything serious because I'm «too old».
There is a growing realization that it is not only women
who lose from gendered role - division: while masculinity is primarily defined through paid work, men suffer too, in terms of the quality of their
relationships with their
children and their marginalisation from the daily activities of family life (Connell, 2003) which can translate into marginalisation from society.
If it becomes necessary, choose an alternate caregiver
who has formed a bond
with the
child and
who cares for him in a way that strengthens the attachment
relationship.
Research shows that young mothers
who feel supported by their baby's father adjust better to motherhood and behave more positively towards their
children — for whom a good
relationship with «my dad» proves protective in face of other disadvantage.
Generally speaking, women
who seek their own
children have been leery of beginning
relationships with me (at this point I avoid them like the plague for my own reasons, but that's only been the last couple of years, when I became relatively certain I won't have more
children).
• Try to find a faculty member at the school
with whom your
child can build a benevolent
relationship - someone
who's not solely focused on your
child's curriculum but also the social and emotional issues he / she may be facing.
The Fatherhood Institute has campaigned long and hard for this change, which will enable
children to know
who their father is,
with a view to establishing and maintaining a
relationship with him, whether or not the parents are together or were married.
Datasets also commonly fail to identify other parent -
child relationships across households: for example, parents
with children residing part - time elsewhere; partners
who parent
children together, while not cohabiting full - time; and non-resident step - parents.
As I've written before, there's been some research on divorced men, but they tend to focus on men
who have
children and what happens to their
relationship with their kids post-divorce, but mostly on how it the loss of contact negatively impacts the
children.
Some day when your
child becomes an adult, your
relationship may become more of a friendship, but for now, it's your job to be his parent: his teacher, coach and limit setter — not the buddy
who lets him get away
with things.
A large body of additional research suggests that a
child's early attachment affects the quality of their adult
relationships, and a recent longitudinal study of 81 men showed that those
who grew up in warm, secure families were more likely to have secure attachments
with romantic partners well into their 70s and 80s.
Another unexpected benefit commonly reported by couples
who have other
children is that the mindfulness practice greatly improves their
relationship with each other and
with their other
child or
children.
A healthy, secure
relationship with your
children is certainly something to be celebrated, and
who knew there was entire month dedicated to the cause?!