Sentences with phrase «small percentage of the children»

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.»

Although most school - age children who suck their thumbs do so in private (they become aware that thumbsucking is not an accepted practice), there is a small percentage of children who continue sucking during the day.

But in 2011 an advisory panel for the FDA concluded that although artificial food dyes may trigger hyperactivity in a small percentage of children with behavioral problems such as ADHD, there isn't enough evidence to claim that food dyes cause hyperactivity in the general population.

This is probably not what you want to hear, but it's only true in a small percentage of children (who are mostly 3, 4, or even 5 years old) that they self - train.

While potty training is something every kid will learn to do eventually, there is a very small percentage of children who have physiological reasons for their accidents.

As someone who had problems and dealt with the shame of those problems, as a kid, (I was one of the very small percentage of children who needed medication to deal with incontinence), the shame associated with having accidents is very real, and if your child is lying about them, it's time to check yourself and make sure you aren't contributing to any shame they may be feeling.

«Should children be forced to eat foods devoid of artificial coloring agents because a small percentage of children are bothered by recognizable side effects?»

A small percentage of children with Selective Mutism do not seem to be the least bit shy.

We had just a small percentage of children who were college bound.

WHEREAS, the NAACP recognizes that at best, quality charter schools serve only a small percentage of children of color and disadvantaged students for whom the NAACP advocates relative to said population left behind in failing schools; and

In fact, only a small percentage of children remain in out - of - home care for more than 10 years.30

That's the big problem: only a small percentage of the children who need specialized treatment for the disorder are receiving it.

In addition, a small percentage of children in the present study showed low levels of social skills from ages 2 to 5.

Not exact matches

If you want to really search for the truth; you will find that the percentage of priests that abuse children is smaller than you'd think (try less than 1 % worldwide; google it and check multiple sources).

In the wake of some high profile daycare abuse cases in the mid-1980s, there was a rash of studies which found that, with enough effort, it might be possible to convince a small percentage of typically very young children that something happened to them which in fact did not happen.

A very small percentage of college - educated women have children out of wedlock (6 percent).

When a small glass of juice is counted as a fruit serve, consistent with the Dietary Guidelines, these percentages increase substantially to 24 %, 90 % and 93 % respectively of children that meet their recommended daily serves of fruit.

The attendees of the swim school are motivated by the desire to acclimate their children to the water and learn the basics, with a small percentage wanting to hone skills for a swim team further down the line.

- The percentage of children of single mothers who are in the care of fathers while their mothers work remains small, but it also grew - from 2 percent in 1988 to 7 percent in 1991.

As a percentage of the total number of incidents versus the total number of strollers out there, you may think that it will never happen to your children, however, there's still a chance for it to happen, albeit a small one.

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The largest Maryland «winner» in terms of percentage increase in per eligible allocation would be the relatively small and non-poor Queen Anne's County, whose allocation per eligible child would increase by about 50 percent.

While we find only small effects for children from nonpoor families, for low - income children, a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending each year for all 12 years of public school is associated with roughly 0.5 additional years of completed education, 9.6 percent higher wages, and a 6.1 - percentage - point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty.

A small percentage of teachers inflicts disproportionate harm on children.

But a small percentage of students are educated at private schools, most often because the district has deemed that facility to be the most appropriate and to provide the least restrictive environment, given the nature and severity of the child's disability.

Even though a small percentage of America's students have access to high quality public education, the NEA wants to ensure that every child is afforded this opportunity so that they might be better equipped for the changing world and changing economy.

Commenting on the small differences in satisfaction levels among parents with children in the charter and chosen district sectors, Paul E. Peterson, professor of government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, notes that «chosen district schools serve a smaller percentage of students of color than charters do, and they are more likely to use examinations as entry requirements, while most charter schools must accept all applicants or use a lottery to select among them.»

Some attribute the comparatively small percentages of students performing at the advanced level to the focus of the 2002 federal accountability statute, No Child Left Behind, on the educational needs of very low performing students.

Brass is pervasive in almost every cultural and historical context throughout human history, yet only a small percentage of school children have the opportunity to learn a brass instrument.

Approximately 5 - 7 % of children are gifted and a smaller percentage are profoundly gifted.

Stockton - on - Tees, for example, had the smallest percentage of disadvantaged children who were school ready in the country in 2015, at just 38 per cent.

The evidence seems clear for adult genre fiction, but less clear for children's books, since they make up such a small percentage of bestsellers.

A significant percentage of your RESP may be in equities when your child is young, but that is when the account will be smallest, so your rate of return is not likely to have a large effect during these early years.

Friends, children, siblings, grandparents and even dads also account for a smaller percentage of flower sales.

A small percentage of neighborhood children can put the kitten in «harm's way».

A small percentage of dogs seem to react to young children as though they're squeaky toys, and this response can be extremely dangerous, too.

Wouldn't you feel better about not scaring people (like your grand children) with big sounding percentages instead of really small numbers?

A child's small size allows a burn to easily cover a large percentage of the child's body.

Schemes operated by fee - paying schools, under which parents are entitled to a refund of an appropriate proportion of fees paid in advance if the child concerned is unable to attend school for a specified period, in return for a small percentage increase in the fees otherwise payable, involve a single supply to the parents of educational services by the school for VAT purposes.

Moreover, this claim misleadingly conflates «fathers who seek to share in the care and upbringing of their children after divorce» with the film's commentary on the small percentage of separating fathers who litigate custody (only 20 % of divorcing families go to court; only 4 - 5 % actually go to trial, according to Johnston)[note 3] and are alleged to have committed abuse.

My child and I are tired of being punished for a small percentage of situations that HB 4113 would adversely affect.

Eron et al concluded that without early family treatment, aggressive behaviour in children «crystallises» by the age of 8, making future learning and behavioural problems less responsive to treatment and more likely to become chronic.5 Yet recent projections suggest that fewer than 10 % of young children who need treatment for conduct problems ever receive it, 6 and an even smaller percentage receive empirically validated treatments.

A small percentage of antisocial children grow up to become adults with antisocial personality disorder, and a greater proportion suffer from the social, academic, and occupational failures resulting from their antisocial behavior.

There is a small percentage of parents, estimated at some 1 % to 5 % who even in the face of a settlement continue to have ongoing conflict regarding the care of their children.

Although the percentage is small, their actual numbers are sizable — nearly 1.8 million children under the age of 18.

Separate linear regression analyses for the preterm children with regard to mothers» reports of children's total problem behavior showed that gestational age was the most important predictor of children's problem behavior (β =.15, p =.016), accounting for a small but significant percentage of the variance (R 2 =.02 p =.016).

Researchers have identified different patterns of marital change across this transition with a small percentage of couples indicating stable and more positive marital relations after the birth of their first child (Belsky & Rovine, 1990; Salmela - Aro et al., 2006).

With regard to fathers» reports of children's total problem behavior, maternal smoking during pregnancy emerged as the most important predictor (β =.13, p =.036), accounting for a small but significant percentage of the variance (R 2 =.02 p =.036).

Furthermore, a multilevel study in this project reported that only a small percentage of the variation in children's functioning could be explained on the family level [42].