Sentences with phrase «societal pressure»

There is a lot of societal pressure these days to start kids learning earlier and earlier.

In this age of standards, high - stakes testing, curriculum stressors, and societal pressures on students and educators, classroom time is precious.

There could be a little societal pressure in there talking, but it's still guilt, and like it or not, guilt motivates.

There can be so much societal pressure to get back in shape after you have your baby.

Ladies: don't let societal pressures to maintain «the perfect breast» effect your decision to breast feed.

There's enough pressure for kids to conform to social and societal pressures without parents adding to it.

Are her preferences and her choices truly coming from inside her or are they coming societal pressure?

What is it with this incredible societal pressure that makes an unmarried person have to defend his or her decision to be unmarried?

This will in part be a response to economic and societal pressures such as stagnant incomes and more young people living at home.

The game is hookup culture, the underlying societal pressure that.

2 - Many mothers who would love to continue breastfeeding past age two stop prematurely simply because of societal pressure.

The concept of dressing like everyone else goes back to societal pressure in general, but peer pressure in specific.

They encounter callous responses to their challenges with societal pressures: «just stand up for your rights and stick it to the man or better yet, quit your job and stay home and don't let someone else raise your child».

It is a tragedy that more mothers do not or can not find enough support so that they can care for their child in the healthiest method available without feeling societal pressures to violently cut short what should be a smooth transition to leaving the breast.

Toddlers» minds are like sponges, but they haven't yet soaked up a confusing cocktail of bad diet advice and societal pressures about what they should be doing for their health.

While Wurm considers humor an important tool in his work, there is always an underlying social critique of contemporary culture, particularly in response to the Capitalist influences and resulting societal pressures that the artist sees as contrary to our internal ideals.

You could end up resenting each other for societal pressures placed on either or both of you.

Despite this threat, research from Randstad Education reveals there is a pervasive societal pressure for older employees to leave the workforce at state pension age — and teachers feel this tension more acutely than average.

A studio debate considers how societal pressures affect women's career chances, following the publication of a book by Facebook boss Sheryl Sandberg.

Not only is «Blockers» one of the few women - directed movies coming from a major studios this year, but it's sex - positive message about consent and societal pressures around people losing their virginity make it an incredible feat in the midst of the #MeToo and Time's Up movement.

Like societal pressure to dress like everyone else.

In India, transgender individuals and eunuchs have used Internet dating to help them find partners, but there continue to be strong societal pressures which marginalize these groups.

Pleasing friends, family and coworkers, and caving into societal pressure just aren't good reasons to tie the knot.

A lot of your feelings of grief about this have to do with pressure we put on ourselves, and the HUGE SOCIETAL PRESSURE that's laid at our feet to breastfeed... and if you «fail» you're a «failure» as a mother in general for not doing what is «best.»

Looking back on the experience, I am very grateful for having had an opportunity to breastfeed both of my children past two years and for letting my instincts override those difficult societal pressures which I think were very real.

These overwhelming societal pressures contradict the things we see on tv and in movies, and often result in confusing messages and the stigma of promiscuity.

Through large - scale, emotionally engaging works, the South African artist touches upon the male gaze, unjust societal pressures on women, and the sexual empowerment / exploitation of the female body.

But all it took was one Hollywood start and hit weekend at the box office to cause the jewelry industry to feel enough societal pressure to clean up its collective act.

Greater differentiation between values and behavior or between the kingdom of God and institutional programs, for example, can scarcely be understood in any kind of adequate way apart from the specific societal pressures that reinforce these changes.

I think that Atheists are greatly under - represented in polls because people don't want to self - identify as Atheists because there are negative societal pressures.

When I read Phyllis Rippeyoung's paper for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and on the immense societal pressure toward intensive motherhood, something was bugging me.

In fact, all of my writing is exactly about what you've written — I don't believe in mom guilt nor the idea that moms need to look at societal pressures to do more, expect more, and achieve more because, at the heart, being a mom — which you articulated again — is simply enough.

The existence of toys which provide positive, relatable body image is inarguably paramount to girls and women, but let us not forget that societal pressures concerning body image apply to boys and men as well.

If we combine the perfect madness (Warner, 2004) of the enduring societal pressure cooker with the notion of inherited predispositions of some women to be more anxious than others, we find a volatile condition looming in the shadows.

Maybe it's the lingering anxiety of my Zoloft - gone - bad, but it's probably this weird societal pressure to dress my children in their matching gender.

What is this simple truth that can save us for unjustified societal pressures warning us that being kind and parenting from a place of empathy will warp our kids??? Simply stated it is this:

Societal pressures make moms feel like they can't win if they're carrying a diaper bag all day and they can't win if they're carrying a briefcase all day either.

I'm not weaning him because of loss of benefits or societal pressure though.

Molstad's greater message: Loving yourself means loving your body, belly rolls, cellulite, jiggly arms, and all — and tuning out the constant societal pressure to somehow achieve physical «perfection.»

The title is a touchstone of gay culture and addresses the sense of invalidation of heteronormative societal pressures on gay men, which, after three decades of post-AIDS concentration on gay men's physical health, turns inward to their mental wellbeing.

What's nice about dating in your early 20's is there is a lot less societal pressure on you to get married in the next 24 hours or whatever they try and say to single men and women in their 30s and 40s.

In fact, it is not uncommon for the couple to be faced with vehement societal pressure and many deep - rooted prejudices.

It's also at this point that the narrative drive stalls, leveling off to focus more on a series of relatively petty financial matters and issues of control than on the larger societal pressures that everyone else in the country was experiencing.

The Importance of Nurturing Resiliency in Children Societal pressures on families and children make resiliency an important characteristic for children to have.

Taja also questions why Damon thinks it's OK to call girls «easy»; why he can have his own phone line but her dad says «that's just the way it is» when she asks why she can't have her own; and the weight of societal pressures put on girls and women.

It's amazing how pernicious societal pressure can be in a writer's life.