Sentences with phrase «spent with their children per»

One perhaps could argue that the 17 average hours that parents spent with their children per week in 1985 could have been quality time and therefore just as good as, or even better than, the greater number of hours they spent together in 1965.

The net income of both parties is inserted into the child support guidelines worksheet, and the calculations of child support are part of a formula including the number of minor children and the overnights each parent spends with the children per year.

Not exact matches

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

Working mothers spend about twice as much time with their children as working fathers do (13.5 hours per week for mothers in 2011, compared with 7.3 hours for fathers).

If your child is spending a great deal of time on their homework each night, more than 10 minutes per grade level, talk with your child's teacher to see if the work needs to be reduced or if there is a different approach to doing the work that your child needs to try.

37.10 per cent of respondents believed their children enjoy spending more time with their mum whilst 34 per cent felt their child enjoyed spending more time with their dad

According to a recent TD survey, 40 % of Canadian parents with children under 18 years old spend $ 1,000 or more on extracurricular activities per child during the school year and half of them find budgeting for these activities stressful.

UK fathers do a third of parental childcare, an average of two hours per day, an eight fold increase in time spent with young children compared with 30 years ago

In this scenario, in addition to alternating weekends, the children spend one evening per week with the non-custodial parent.

According to the P&G survey, mothers reported being able to spend an average of two hours and twenty minutes per day with their children, and most reported experiencing guilt as a result.

In 2011, the amount of time that children three years old and younger spent in child care with a non-relative was 29 hours per week

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Our research (with mainly college - educated, white - collar fathers) shows that today's fathers spend an average of 2.5 hours per workday with their children and more than 3 out of 4 would like to have even more time with their offspring.

After a day in which we spent over 30 minutes alone on show - and - tell, I wondered aloud if we shouldn't come up with a system by which each child only brought in one item per week.

The baby was 3 months old when this happened and the mother (at the beginning) got to spend 6 «state supervised» hours per day with her children.

Spend at least 15 minutes of quality time per day with each child.

the cost of trips and excursions has increased, with well over a quarter of parents now spending over # 200 per year and increasing numbers unable to afford to pay for their children to participate.

The staggering sum is for just 4,890 kids — with councils spending # 4,000 a week on average per child.

Food & beverage companies spend $ 2 billion a year on youth - targeted ads, with American children seeing approximately 4,700 ads each year and teens viewing 5,900 ads per year, according to Institute of Medicine research.

Non-autistic children spent 60 per cent of their time searching the target - rich half, compared with 45 per cent for those with autism.

Studies have shown that up to seventy per cent of parents of children with ADHD report that the children have difficulty falling asleep and that they spend a long time putting them to bed.

So, going with that conservative number, if you spend 10 minutes per day -LRB-.16 of an hour), and multiply that by 365 days in a year you get 58.4 hours less that you could have spent with your child or doing something else.

According to the poll, all parents were asked to state roughly how long their child spent per week studying and doing their homework, to which parents of children with a desk or study space confirmed they spend 10 hours and 12 minutes per week studying at home, on average.

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.

«The index also debunks the myth, a government education is a free education, with the latest figures showing Australian families could spend on average $ 66,320 per child on a so - called, free education,» he said.

Taxpayers deserve to know how much their kids» school spends per child and be able to compare that with the neighboring school or a school across the city, state, or nation.

Courtenay Harris and Leon Straker's «Survey of physical ergonomics issues associated with school childrens» use of laptop computers» found that students in schools with mandatory laptop programs spent on average more than three hours per day on the computer.

Students whose parents reported «spending time just talking to my child», «eating the main meal with my child around a table» or «discussing how well my child is doing at school» daily or nearly every day were between 22 per cent and 39 per cent more likely to report high levels of life satisfaction.

«The studies that I'm familiar with say that the inner - city parochial schools, which spend much less per child on education, do a better job than the public schools that spend much more,» said Scalia, adding «so I just don't think it follows that... more money [will] solve the difficulty that the people of Cleveland found with their public schools.»

On February 14, 2005, State Supreme Court Justice Leland DeGrasse, who had overseen the case from the beginning, awarded the city a staggering $ 5.6 billion more per year for its schools, a 43 percent increase to the city's $ 12.9 billion school budget, an amount that would raise per - pupil spending to more than $ 18,000 per year and make New York City's huge school district (with more than a third of the children in the state) among the richest in the state, if not the country.

As reported by the BBC, the survey of 27,830 parents in 29 countries found that 11 per cent of parents in the UK spent an extra day helping their children, compared with 62 per cent in India.

When provided with a list of possible items and services, and asked to state how much they estimated that they spent during the course of their child's primary and junior education, the top five most expensive items and services were revealed as: • School uniform - # 1,110 (average spend per respondent)

With 75 per ‑ cent of children in the UK spending less time outside than prison inmates (survey of 2,000 people commissioned by Persil as part of its «Dirt is Good» campaign) it's going to take more than just schools to get young people outside enough to reap the benefits; benefits that include not just self - development, but also increased academic attainment — one of the core functions of schools.

For poor children, a twenty percent increase in per - pupil spending each year for all 12 years of public school is associated with nearly a full additional year of completed education, 25 percent higher earnings, and a 20 percentage - point reduction in the annual incidence of poverty in adulthood.

A 2012 study of 44 states came up with $ 1.7 billion, or about $ 65 per child, but that number leaves out teacher time devoted to test - prep and administration, as well as the money spent on processing, transfer, and reporting.

Their average education spending per child jumped 35 percent to $ 5,210 a year during the recession compared with the two preceding years — and they sustained that faster pace through the recovery.

Parents in the UK are much less likely to spend more than an hour per day helping with their children's homework compared with parents in other countries, a survey suggests.

Philadelphia falls in the middle, spending about $ 13,000 per student to operate schools, compared with about $ 23,000 per child in Lower Merion, according to state data.

Decoding experts suggest that for most children, about 30 minutes per day is necessary to teach decoding in grades 1 and 2 (more and with greater intensity for struggling students).23 Where schools spend 90 — 120 minutes per day on reading throughout the elementary grades, that leaves at least an hour per day that could be devoted to imparting the language and world knowledge that is most important for competence in listening, talking, reading, and writing.

This enables scholarship organizations to work with families and schools to determine the amount necessary to finance a child's education, an amount usually far lower than government per - pupil spending or even many set voucher amounts; the average tuition at private schools is about half what is spent per pupil in the public system.

Schools and districts should be expected to report per - pupil spending (something made much easier when dollars follow the child), both with and without capital costs.

Because wealthy families tend to live in communities with larger tax bases and fewer needs, their children's schools have typically spent much more per student than have schools in poor districts.

For instance, if a married couple with three kids, ages 4 to 12, spends $ 5,000 per child on sports each year, they could set up a trust naming each child and spouse as beneficiaries.

The barometer found that 60 percent of surveyed parents with rewards cards planned on spending anywhere from over $ 100 to $ 500 per child to prepare for the new school year.

Expenses per child decrease as a family has more children, the report found, as families with three or more children spend 22 per cent less per child than families with two children.

For the average UK family with children that's almost # 720 per year spent on uneaten food.»

Physical custody often goes to the parent who spends more time with the children, while the parent without physical custody is awarded visitation per a regular schedule.

However, the disparity of time addressing daily child care needs persists as women with children spend more than 6.5 hours per day performing child care duties, whereas men spend slightly more than three hours per week on the same tasks.

Research demonstrates that men spend more time on child care than they had previously — time spent addressing child care has tripled (from 2.65 to 6.5 hours per day) between 1965 and 2000, with most of the increase occurring after 1985.

According to a July 2016 survey conducted by TD Ameritrade, one in five respondent families with more than $ 25,000 in investable assets spends more than $ 1,000 per month on their child's sports.