Sentences with phrase «single children as»

Success lies in ensuring that every playtime, which after all makes up a massive 20 per cent of the school day, offers as wide a range of engaging and challenging play opportunities and experiences to every single child as can possibly be provided.

Not exact matches

As a young African - American child born to a single mother in Chattanooga, Tenn., during segregation, Samuel L. Jackson has had to overcome a lot to get to where he is.

Although the dream had to be put on hold for the next several years as Ganahl adjusted to life as a single mother raising their children, she never gave up.

When details of her self - titled 2013 album were originally leaked earlier that year under the moniker Mrs. Carter, it was panned by some critics for its foreshadowed embrace of the artist's still - new identity as hip - hop mogul Sean «Jay - Z» Carter's wife rather than the trailblazing feminist icon who coined powerful female anthems like Irreplaceable, Single Ladies and Independent Women from her Destiny's Child days.

Every year, Fishbowl dedicates a day of service to their community for a major project to help groups such as Native Americans, veterans, children, and single moms.

With its state license for 116 students; lucrative tuition subsidies for single parents, available from North Carolina's Child Care Resources program; and expertise with children, from infants to after - schoolers (up to age 12), this business could advance as quickly as a 2 - year - old — if placed in the care of a growth - minded new owner.

There are plenty of people out there who have pretty positive self - assessments: Ninety percent of drivers think they have above average skills behind the wheel, an even higher percentage of college professors think they're better than average teachers, and, as we all know, every single child in Lake Wobegon is above average.

So I had to factor in future child care as well as college savings into the mix, on a single income.

However, by far, his greatest achievement is having raised five successful children to adulthood as a single dad.

As the only surviving child of the late public servant, she gets that money for life as long as she remains singlAs the only surviving child of the late public servant, she gets that money for life as long as she remains singlas long as she remains singlas she remains single.

I came to Pure Barre from a successful career in retail and brand management followed by a more than full - time job as a single mom of three children.

A single person without children files as a single; a single person with dependents who maintains her own home files as a head of household; a married couple, with or without children, files either as married filing joint or married filing separate; and a recent widow (er) may file as a qualifying widow (er), which is the same, in effect, as married filing joint.

This follows an easing of the policy in late 2013, when Beijing said that certain parents, such as those that were of single - child families themselves, could have two children.

The survey also found: Single family renters make more money and are nearly twice as likely to have children as apartment dwellers.

However, the Liberal platform also envisaged temporary deficits to finance higher spending on social programs such as child benefits, a higher Guaranteed Income Supplement for single seniors, public health care, child care and First Nations programs, and did not increase overall federal tax revenues.

You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are» (Matthew 23:14 - 16).

by Lori Gottlieb — a single mother who conceived her only child with donor sperm rather than miss out on motherhood as she has on marriage — is a frank and excruciatingly personal look into some of the sexual revolution's lonelier venues, including the creation of children by anonymous or absent sperm donors, the utter corrosiveness of taking a consumerist approach to romance, and the miserable effects of advancing age on one's sexual marketability.

With only one legal wife, the other wives with kids file for child support from the state as single parents.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

As it turns out, with the worlds population being what it is today, and with god essentially hitting the reset button 4,000 years ago at most, that means that every woman who survived child birth to reach the very earliest age they could be begin to reproduce, EVERY SINGLE WOMAN over the past 4,000 years would have had to have, at minimum, 43 children each for the worlds population to be what it is today.

Because priestly love most closely mirrors the love of Christ Himself for His people, it has its own specific sorrows too, just as does married love, the love of parent for child, and the apostolate of one called to be single.

But children are not intended by God to be brought into the world outside the marriage bond, nor is single parenthood endorsed in scripture as a providential way of rearing children.

Abortion is relevant only to the extent that the single or unready parenthood is encouraged by our culture; many of these children would be better off if they had been adopted as infants.

And that children in single parent famlies don't do as well.

My own statements about the way in which the decline of marriage contributes to the difficulties facing the working class were singled out as suggesting that unmarried women with children were somehow responsible — blaming the victim.

Furthermore, while an intact family composed of two parents of the opposite sex and their biological child or children may provide the best standard family unit in society (and should, therefore, be given support), we would be naive and cruel to dismiss the possibility that differently configured families (e.g., families with single parents or homosexual parents or adopted children) may produce family situations that are as good as, or, in some cases, better than, those of families that fit the standard.

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.

Some Protestant leaders are striving to broaden the church's ministry to include the growing plurality of family forms — to include as coequals with the intact nuclear family all single - parent families, the divorced and remarried, blended families, childless couples, unmarried couples living together, and gay and lesbian couples with or without children.

There are, for example, signals used in animal communication, nonconventional signals which include some gestures, and single - word sentences such as the word «Tree» used by children in the early stages of language acquisition.

Sometimes they even provide support — as does the church — for adults, single or married, raising children.

Home conditions become difficult: many mothers have to bring up children, as single parents due to divorce, labour migration and deaths in civil conflict.

Older adults and single adults are often overlooked as candidates for leadership in ministry with children in the congregation.

It is used by healthy, fertile women so that they won't have to carry their own babies, by fertile single women to have multitudes of children — as in Octomom — and even by post menopausal women to give birth in late middle age or older.

Murray Straus's studies suggest that marital violence occurs in one out of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult children.

Some churches offer a menu full of choices: men's / women's; singles / couples; youth and children's ministries (which will be more important as years go by); mentoring / discipleship; Sunday school.

What starts as a mustard seed — addressing the needs of a single vulnerable child — grows into a tree in which the birds of the air can nest.

I have witnessed that in single parent families where the single parent is a mom, the male children gravitate towards and emulate prominent male figures in their lives such as an Uncle or male family friend.

The belief that every single person is precious in God's sight has inspired some Christians to work for social changes such as the abolition of slavery, an end to the exploitation of factory workers, the removal of racial discrimination and apartheid, and the prevention of cruelty to and the sexual abuse of women and children.

How should the parents of single young adults respond to twenty - five - and thirty - year - old «children» who live lives so different from their own years as young adults?

Thus, if a single mother works to support her family and must leave her children unattended for a few hours after school, it could be construed as neglect and must be reported.

We aren't a particularly wealthy family (we have a single income, and that is in pastoral ministry), nor are we particularly exceptional parents, nor are we particularly well - positioned to have as many children as possible.

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

But even if we were to grant that every single divorce in this country is necessary, it would still be important to study the experience of children — just as we study the experience of heart patients after surgery.

But even then, the acceptance of children outside of marriage comes with a caveat: in this case, the most resourced assure everyone else that all family forms are valid, children are resilient, and can thrive just as well in single - parent families as in married families» and then turn around and admonish their children that they should never, never have children outside of marriage.

All too many «pro-lifers» also have no problem being pro-war, for which our pockets seem to be bottomless, yet complain about every dime spent on programs for family planning, support for single mothers such as day care assistance, Head Start, WIC, education — things that help young single mothers and their children.

This, according to the authors» analysis, helps to explain why children of single parents do not do as well on average, and provides additional motivation for involving fathers in the lives of their children.

Instead of this single unity, we offer children — Algebra, from which nothing follows; Geometry, from which nothing follows; Science, from which nothing follows; History, from which nothing follows; a Couple of Languages, never mastered; and lastly, most dreary of all, Literature... Can such a list be said to represent Life, as it is known in the midst of the living of it?

We also advocate for this type of everyday activity (breastfeeding a child in public) to be so utterly normal as to never raise a single eyebrow!

This does not change the fact that speaking statistically (instead of emotionally and irrationally as you have), the single best predictor of a child's performance in school is the educational level of his parents.

I imagine raising five children as a single parent in the 1960's would make you that way.