Sentences with phrase «serious social problems»

The fact that serious social problems like inequality are discussed in the larger conversation about video games is completely acceptable and even a large victory for our medium.

Fighting is one of the most serious social problems facing schools today.

«By preventing teen and unplanned pregnancy, we can significantly improve other serious social problems including poverty (especially child poverty), child abuse and neglect, low birth weight, and failure in schooling.»

This «corrective» role of religion vis - à - vis reason is not always welcomed, though, partly because distorted forms of religion, such as sectarianism and fundamentalism, can be seen to create serious social problems themselves.

Severe problems in parent - infant or parent - child interaction are now recognized to be a contributing factor to many serious social problems including mental health, violence, difficulties in school and future parenting.

Using third or fourth grade reading scores to plan prison construction may be an urban myth but it's no joke that poor literacy skills are strong predictors of a whole host of serious social problems.

2 accomplishes this in a particularly graceful way, as it cocoons serious social problems in a very shiny, very 1980s wrapper.

The rightness of King's position to approach our present serious social problems is clear compared to the relative and morally ambiguous nature of these alternatives.

People with Herpes in Australia is already a very large number, and this has become a very serious social problem.

«A lot of people see the aging of America as a problem — we see it as a chance to address serious social problems, beginning with literacy.

And thus our ongoing debates about creationism and creative evolution, egalitarianism and complementarianism, about what biblically constitutes the most serious social problems the nation faces, and so forth.

Mission: Through education, support, advocacy and research, API seeks to strengthen families and increase awareness of the importance of secure attachment, ultimately helping to reduce or prevent child abuse, behavioral disorders, criminal acts and other serious social problems.

Youth sports are creating serious social problems: rape by athletes, violence toward other players and non-athletes, coaches bending eligibility rules, adults setting terrible examples by physically and verbally abusing kids, coaches, officials and other adults.

Domestic violence is a serious social problem — but is it really any of your business when employees are enduring it?

But what if the decline of etiquette is one of the most serious social problems, from which other serious social problems devolve merely as epiphenomena?

We can be part of the solution, but we can not solve poverty here or in the US on our own, and we can not ask farmers to bear the brunt of the cost equation to solve this serious social problem.

Based on my years of human development research, twenty five years of experience working with children and parents, and the serious social problems we are facing, I consider Joseph Chilton Pearce's work to be the most important information we could possibly seek out.

Post-war slum clearances and the erection of a large number of tenement buildings in this seat have left a community which suffers from some serious social problems.

He said: Alcohol is a serious social problem which affects the lives of all age groups.

Workaholism in Japan is considered a serious social problem leading to early death, often on the job, a phenomenon dubbed karōshi.

«Students who miss a lot of school get into trouble and can have serious social problems.»

Calling youth unemployment New York's most serious social problem, the state's Board of Regents has outlined a number of steps the public and private sectors can take to better prepare young people for work.

Mission: Through education, support, advocacy and research, API seeks to strengthen families and increase awareness of the importance of secure attachment, ultimately helping to reduce or prevent child abuse, behavioral disorders, criminal acts and other serious social problems.

Further, models such as the one proposed by Becker and Kaplan are useful, but there is a real need for theories of adolescent sexual aggression to guide research on, and identification and treatment of, this serious social problem.