Sentences with phrase «small numbers of children»

Experimental studies, although few and involving small numbers of children, show similar effects.

For males, this meant bonding to a single female and making a lasting investment in a smaller number of children, which he could be reasonably certain were his own.

They did acknowledge there could be a chance that sugar may have a minor effect on a small number of children.

Today she'd have had access to contraception, so chances are she would have had a much smaller number of children, and been able to watch practically all of them grow up healthy.

However baby - led weaning — which advocates babies feeding themselves solid foods, rather than being spoon fed purees — could lead to nutritional problems for the small number of children who develop later than average.

In a small number of children who have frequent episodes of night terrors, referral to a specialist service may be needed.

A small number of children still have flatfoot by the time they are 10 years of age.

A small number of children are already born to mothers over 50 every year, by IVF using donated eggs.

Not that there are many complaints from pediatricians or parents of the relatively small number of children who develop uncommon cancers best treated with proton therapy.

«In developmental psychology there has long been a trade - off between gathering lots of data from a small number of children or a small amount of data from a much larger number of children,» says Harvard University linguist Steven Pinker, who proposed a similar idea several years back.

A small number of children who catch the influenza virus fall so ill they end up in the hospital — perhaps needing ventilators to breathe — even while their family and friends recover easily.

But the evidence suggests that what women want — and have always wanted — is not so much to have more children as to have more for a smaller number of children they can reliably raise to healthy adulthood.

However, in a small number of children, symptoms can last for a month or more.

Now, a study in the journal Brain describes what could be considered a direct «aquarium - to - bedside» approach, taking a drug discovered in a genetic zebrafish model of epilepsy and testing it, with promising results, in a small number of children with the disease.

Yet the decision by a small number of children to opt out of neighborhood schools may adversely affect the academic and social environment in those schools, as the remaining children are likely to have less - involved families on average.

«Does it make sense to wait seven years from the time children start school to make a punitive judgement about the school, based on the performance of whatever proportion of that small number of children are still at the same school?

Second, it is also important to note that when we launched the scholarship program, many of the best schools would only commit to potentially enrolling a really small number of children.

With appropriate support, there's usually no reason your child can't go to a mainstream school, although a small number of children may benefit from attending a specialist school.

Shavar Jeffries, the president of Democrats for Education Reform, said there might be too much focus on school choice even in this environment, given the relatively small number of children choice programs serve.

If teachers find out through informal questioning or a small, low - stakes test, that a small number of children have not understood what they wanted them to learn, they do something about it.

Only a small number of children continued to take medications into adolescence.

Most studies examined a small number of children, were focused on limited age groups, or did not analyze the interindividual variability.5 — 13 Thus, complete normative data on children's sleep duration as a function of chronological age do not exist.14 However, such data are necessary to deal accurately with sleep problems in children and to reassure distressed parents.2

Findings suggest substantial improvement via an intensive approach for young children with autism; however, important differences in group assignment at baseline, difficulties with systematic measurement overtime, the lack of reported treatment fidelity or adherence characteristics, and the small number of children in the comparison group limit interpretation of these findings.

The strongest evidence in relation to impairment is for improving the psychological functioning of children who have experienced sexual abuse where CBT appears to improve outcomes for children showing signs of PTSD, and for a small number of child - focused therapies for children who have experienced neglect.

For a small number of children, these difficulties happen more often or affect them greatly.

While everyone experiences difficulties from time to time, for a small number of children difficulties happen more often or affect them greatly.

A small number of children aged over two years are referred to our program for placement each year.

for a smaller number of children and young people (over time), this will be foster or residential care (in the parental responsibility of the Minister) when preservation, restoration, guardianship or adoption are not possible.

Critics have challenged the findings, in part because of the small number of children involved.

Point out that your license requires regular supervision of the small number of children in your care.

Not exact matches

It is well known that the Conservative government is also committed to introducing income splitting for families with children under the age of eighteen, despite the overwhelming evidence that this change would benefit only a small number of high - income families.

The Prime Minister's Office explained, «Like all families of prime ministers, a small number of staff provide assistance,» and, «Given the nature of the Prime Minister's responsibilities and his young family, the Trudeaus employ two household employees who, in addition to performing other duties around the house, act as secondary caregivers to the three children.»

Prime Minister Harper and Finance Minister Joe Oliver were so confident that this commitment was a «no - brainer» that the Prime Minister announced in a «mini-budget» in October, the Family Tax Cut, and increases to the Universal Child Care Benefit along with a number of other small initiatives.

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

Having served a number of prison sentences, Berrigan, with his wife, the former Sister Elizabeth McAllister, has formed a small community of eight adults (and the two Berrigan children)...

The lack of emphasis on a single religion does not stop Disney from taking up a catechizing role, Pinsky notes, «In the Western world in particular, the number of hours children spend receiving moral instruction in houses of worship is dwarfed by the amount of time spent sitting in front of screens large and small, learning values from Disney movies,» Disney's evangelistic entrepreneurship has been extraordinarily successful.

First, in reporting widespread child abuse in Brooklyn's community of Orthodox Jews, there was not the «selective outrage» which animates the paper against criminous Catholic clerics, whose numbers are in fact proportionally much smaller than other religious and professional groups.

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.»

«Also I'm associated in the media and public with a number of people who have been accused, and in some cases pleaded guilty, to child abuse in a relatively small school within the same time.»

If there are only a small number of vegan children, they may argue that it would be too expensive for them to make changes.

Katie is the author of a number of nutrition books, the mom of seven small children, and a firm believer that good food fuels strong families!

For the small numbers of fathers who read very little to their children before participation in FRED, the time spent reading together increased such that 10 % more fathers were reading for an hour a week.

Furthermore, there are a number of good double strollers, which are fabricated from sturdy materials which allow for very easy clean up after your small children.

Publicity about latchkey kids has been plentiful in recent years, but the number of young children who must care for themselves after school because their parents work is relatively small, according to American Demographics magazine.

A common issue is that nutritional studies are often plagued with a number of biases and are often poorly designed (small samples, cross-sectional, etc.) Still, it makes as much sense to use the 6 month marker for all babies for eating solids as it does expecting your child to walk right at 12 months, to speak at 15 months, and to eliminate on a potty at 24 months on the dot.

Young children often go through stages where they refuse to eat certain foods, only want to eat a small number of specific foods, or are easily distracted at mealtimes.

Youth, parents and coaches may have little or no awareness of the large number of calories contained in snacks and beverages commonly offered in youth sport settings or the relatively small number of calories children expend during sport.

Charlotte Wright, professor of community child health at the University of Glasgow and one of the members campaigning for the change in the policy, told The BMJ that she had no objection to the college surveying its members given that the numbers who voted at the annual general meeting were so small — 66 delegates supported the motion and 53 were against it.

I don't have the statistics here (because I work and have two small children), but some crazy high number of US employees work for small businesses or own their own business.

After a predetermined number of points, reward your child with a small incentive.