Sentences with phrase «society needs families»

Our society needs families simply to survive and it needs the example of good families in order to flourish.

Not exact matches

The family is a good thing in itself, but a vulnerable thing that needs to have a life apart from the state, and forms a great part of the institutions needed to resist its always expanding desire to control and direct more and more of society.

An extreme case of our current society is with a family in my hometown who used government money for other «needs».

He was redefining family, not in terms of the need of society for stable families, but of persons to be members of a community that seeks to serve God.

Furthermore, the idea that I am just an individual, owing little or nothing to anyone, that I need to be autonomous, seems absurd when we consider our own personal origins: we each owe our conception and birth to a mother and a father; our whole lives involve a series ofinterlocking relationships with parents, family, friends, teachers, society and so on.

We acknowledge that our societies must respond more effectively to the material and spiritual needs of individuals, their families and the communities in which they live throughout our diverse countries and regions.

Community, tradition, connect to family and neighbors as well as a sense of national community in many societies (although many atheist societies are evidence that the spiritual component is not needed) are wrapped up in a religious ident.ity.

One final point that follows from this line of thought, which is also common to both Holloway and Pope Benedict, is that just as the Incarnation has already unified the family of man in a new way, society needs structures of government that reflect its increasingly globalised unity.

While we need to avoid the cruelty to children that arises when society assumes that their resilience allows them to flourish in any family unit however configured, we also need to avoid the cruelty of rejecting outright or devaluing all families that do not fit the norm.

Here also, some few expert ministers are likely to be needed in the future — along with aiding all ministers to be sensitive to the special needs here that are created by the cryptically rejecting attitudes of a family - oriented society.

The church needs to be part of the debate about the relative investments that society should make to day care and tax relief as means of supporting the postmodern family.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

I made no reference to gay or nay as we need some basic understanding before we go off into various new forms of the core unit of our society (family).

• to place the needs of the coming global society before those of our own immediate family, tribe or nation;

Perhaps by demonstrating greater love and care to those around us, particularly those within our own family and especially those who are unwell or marginalised within society; by reaching out to those who are struggling in life, in need of comfort or support — and by valuing them all as human beings — then we can all indeed be true disciples of Christ on earth.

It involves developing a life - style of «generativity» — psychoanalyst Erik Erikson's apt term for generating life in the ongoing stream of society — living in terms of the growth needs of the family of man.

The family needs to maintain hope instead of feeling that little can be done to help the person find a stable place in society again.

This process is attuned to the needs of a technological society, in which gender differences increasingly are less important, functional equality for technical roles is more useful, cooperation and tolerance make the workplace more efficient, and sexual behavior and family life are less relevant to work life.

We need a family and an ordered society requires a political society — but we don't need to be a member of a golf club or trade union or to read a particular newspaper.

In my current view, 99 % of society seems to need (to a smaller or greater degree) community, acceptance, welcoming, and the other positives that feed the thought that they matter (to family, fellow man and / or god) and that they are not helpless in an overwhelming world.

Families are in crisis and there is an urgent need for church and society to respond.

Religious persons are welcome in secular society as they have the same needs as everyone else, physical safety, security and peace to live our lives and have families.

Such a society needs churches for providing «a very worthwhile safety net» for have - nots and for «promoting fundamental American values of hard work, family, freedom, and faith» for all citizens, as President Reagan put it this spring in thanking the National Association of Evangelicals for its ministry.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

It is my hope that as a result of segments like the one on 20/20 and the fact that more women are feeling comfortable speaking out about long - term nursing (as evidenced by all of the comments and Tweets I received), that others will not feel like they need to be «closet nursers» nor feel pressured by family, friends or society in general to wean before they feel it is right for them and their child.

As part of an ongoing project with the Children's Society, we are producing top tips on how to ensure fathers and father - figures in young carer families receive the support they need.

So I think we need to do more work as a society in the early years, figure out ways to support families, especially struggling families, in the first few years of a child's life.

Traditionally, support was provided by the family, but as society has changed, mother support now needs to come from a wider circle.

A person whose attachment needs are met is able to think beyond the basic, day - to - day physical and mental survival and the «need» of trying to keep up with the hectic pace of society, in order to experience greater personal well - being and family enjoyment.

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«We need to impress upon society the importance of supporting families in their care of newborns,» Alexander said.

In a highly mobile society, where most women live apart from their extended families, the need for a postpartum support network is great.

The WBTi report for the UK shows key gaps and recommendations for improvement in how all of society — the UK Government, national assemblies, local commissioners, friends, family and community — needs to support mothers who want to breastfeed and the healthcare professionals who help them.

Discusses importance of breastfeeding relationship, natural weaning, temporary changes in lifestyle, society's expectations vs. child's and family's needs.

«When workers are stuck in low - paid jobs with little access to training, they can struggle to gain the confidence and skills they need to allow them to move into positions where they can start not just to make more of a contribution to society in the form of higher taxes, but are also more able to provide for their families.»

A few sentences earlier Smith argues that a commercial society needs to be built on self - interest because people have many more exchange partners than they have friends — while benevolence is quite appropriate among friends and family members.

«The Welsh Liberal Democrats believe that every person should be able to provide a secure environment for their family and 20,000 new homes is exactly the ambition that this Government needs to deliver a fairer society for all.»

«But to build an even fairer society, Cornwall needs the power to make sure a young person can get into town without a car; that a new family can find somewhere to live in the area they grew up in; and that our ageing population gets the seamless care they deserve,» they added.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. joined Santa and Mrs. Claus at the Wildlife Conservation Society Bronx Zoo to distribute toys to 200 local Bronx military families in need of support this holiday season.

She later worked as an advisor to David Willetts, the then Shadow Secretary of state for Children, Schools and Families, focusing mainly on special needs education, and for the Young Foundation and the National Autistic Society.

We continue to create jobs and put people to work in The Bronx, but we need to do more as a society to ensure that all jobs are helping people rise out of poverty and make a better life for themselves and their families.

If you follow the evolution of human society per the theory of the early philosophers: Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau; it is posited that when humans decided to move from a state of survival of the fittest in which they roamed in the bush mainly in small family groups and decided to settle in larger societal groups, they needed rules and regulations to order society.

«We as a society need to develop creative solutions to support families and help share the work of providing kids with healthy meals.»

«We need to give these kids an opportunity to succeed in school, go to college, to find meaningful work as adults, to have a family and ultimately not be so isolated from society,» says Marcus Thomeer, PhD.

To the south is a belief in the importance of security and safety («Having order and stability in society is important to her»), and to the west are humility and caring («He tries always to be responsive to the needs of his family and friends»).

The MND Association improves care and support for people with MND, their families and carers, funds and promotes research that leads to new understanding and treatments, and brings us closer to a cure for MND, and campaigns and raises awareness so the needs of people with MND and everyone who cares for them are recognized and addressed by wider society.

In this segment, Dr. House and Dr. Barrett talk about why the brain «fools us» into thinking our functional vision and movement is normal in the presence of neurological disease, and what this means for professional caregivers, families, and our medical culture and society, since patient self - reporting is now a major source of information about public health needs and treatment efficacy.