Sentences with phrase «stable family for every child»

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A little over five years ago, Joel Young found himself in a situation many American families are facing: He was deeply in debt with a less than stable job and young children to provide for.

«It's so important for families to know that they will not be thrown off the program if they have a change in their work hours or have to change jobs,» she says, «and it's important for the child to be in a stable child care setting even if their parent's work situation changes.»

Cites research conducted by Tuck for the Selamta Family Project, a nonprofit that unites orphaned children and marginalized women in Ethiopia to provide stable homes.

First, it extends the logic of the redefinition of marriage which the earlier legislation on no - fault divorce required: Marriage is no longer a lifelong, monogamous bond between two people of the opposite sex intended for the raising of children and the provision of a stable family environment; rather, it is a relationship of mutual convenience, to be dissolved as and when it becomes inconvenient to the contracted parties to maintain it.

Provision for a stable family structure usually has in view the protection of children.

As for marriage, study after study has shown over the years that from the point of view of the child it is the best and most stable basis for the family.

In my experience, poly families tend to be more stable for the children, particularly if there is one adult able to stay home to parent the children while the other adults work.

Pastoral care's commitment to humanistic psychology — particularly its insistence that relationships must promote personal fulfillment — appears to trump concerns about children's need for stable families.

Yet not too many of us think that we need to throw our children to popular culture willy - nilly, I can't think of anyone who denies the importance of a stable and loving family for a child, anyone who thinks that by creating a strong community we are abdicating our roles as parents, not at all.

A practical argument for a stable marriage is that an intact family is the best milieu in which to raise children.

-- a report that looks into what matters more for children's well - being — having married parents, being in a financially stable family or parents with good parenting skills.

Nowhere in the article did I see the suggested remedies of abstinence, contraception, enforcing child support, marriage to stable men and making Department of Children and Families referrals on parents whose kids are uncared - for.

The every child deserves a family campaign promotes the best interests of all children in the foster care and adoption system by increasing their access to loving, stable, forever homes, and works to ensure safe and supportive care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth seeking family formation.

While ODD can develop in children from loving and stable families, it's not uncommon for these children to have had a dysfunctional home life and / or exposure to violence.

Stakeholders» input was integrated into development of A Healthy Start for Minnesota Children: Supporting Opportunities for Life - Long Health, a theory of change that depicts how public understanding, health in all policies, and community innovation lead to 1) safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments and 2) social and economic security, which in turn will help the state achieve its ultimate outcome — that every Minnesota child, prenatal to age three years, will thrive in their family and community and achieve their full potential regardless of their race, where they live, or their family's income.

A foster parent is someone who provides a safe, supportive, and stable family environment for children who are unable to live with their birth parents.

Although their individual circumstances may differ, most prospective birth mothers are looking for one thing above all: to find a safe, stable family that will give their child a better future than the one they can provide.

Nowadays, I am a passionate advocate for improving adult - child communication to build healthy, stable family relationships - the exact things I had the most trouble sorting out.

Adoption is about families being available and stable for vulnerable women and their babies or children.

Far from shielding children from the consequences of parental decisions, welfare policy is forcing even working, stable families into a situation where they can not provide adequately for their children.

Erie County currently has a need for supportive foster families to provide temporary stable, nurturing homes for hundreds of vulnerable children.

And the massive growth in private renting, especially in London, has created a new constituency in favour of more stable tenancies, especially for families with children.

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And children are primarily the reason many couples get married in the first place: to create a stable structure for a family.

About Blog The heart of our mission is to provide support, training and advocacy to meet the special needs of foster, adoptive and kinship families who provide safe, stable and nurturing homes for children in foster care.

Our goal is to create opportunities for all children in Washington State to thrive in stable families, great schools, and strong communities.

Most voters want government to spend more money of the care and education of young children, for the good of families and everything that flows from stable homes and supportive environments for children and adults.

Most voters want government to do something about that, for the good of families and everything that flows from stable homes and supportive environments for children and adults.

Between 1984 and 2004, the percentage of the student population speaking English as a second language increased from 5 percent to 60 percent; the percentage of students receiving free or reduced - price lunch soared to 91 percent; and the once - stable neighborhood around the school turned into a community with a 60 percent mobility rate for families with school - age children.

«a few acid - burned faces is a small price to pay for lasting marriages, stable families, legitimate children, low levels of debt, strong currencies, affordable housing, homogenous populations, low levels of crime, and demographic stability.»

About Blog The heart of our mission is to provide support, training and advocacy to meet the special needs of foster, adoptive and kinship families who provide safe, stable and nurturing homes for children in foster care.

Radisson Hotel Group ™, today announced at its Americas Business Conference in Orlando, Fla., a new global partnership with SOS Children's Villages, the world's largest not - for - profit organization dedicated to building loving, stable families for orphaned, abandoned and other vulnerable cChildren's Villages, the world's largest not - for - profit organization dedicated to building loving, stable families for orphaned, abandoned and other vulnerable childrenchildren.

so the person who leaves his country with all the money and weapons and technology support he can get from the planet and invade other people living in peace in their towns and villages, and start shooting them, air raiding them, bombing them, controlling them, prison theme, torture them till death, treat them like animals, use chemical weapons, searches in people homes for freedom fighters and scare the women and children and do every other mean act to stable their bases and control in that country is not terrorist but who is picking up an AKA 47 to free his land from the occupiers and protect his family and his way of living and his beliefs and kill those who came to kill and steal everything is a terrorist??

The family law unit's services are designed to empower survivors with the information and options they need to stop the abuse and build safe, stable lives for themselves and their children.

Article 7 (1)(c) of that directive must be interpreted as meaning that, while Member States have the faculty of requiring proof that the sponsor has stable and regular resources which are sufficient to maintain himself and the members of his family, that faculty must be exercised in the light of Articles 7 and 24 (2) and (3) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which require the Member States to examine applications for family reunification in the interests of the children concerned and also with a view to promoting family life, and avoiding any undermining of the objective and the effectiveness of that directive.

Article 7 (1)(c) of that directive must be interpreted as meaning that, while Member States have the faculty of requiring proof that the sponsor has stable and regular resources which are sufficient to maintain himself and the members of his family, that faculty must be exercised in the light of Articles 7 and 24 (2) and (3) of the Charter, which require the Member States to examine applications for family reunification in the interests of the children concerned and also with a view to promoting family life, and avoiding any undermining of the objective and the effectiveness of that directive.

This isn't because families are more financially stable and they have the luxury to not need a second income, but mainly because the cost of child care has increased so dramatically it makes more sense for a parent to stay home versus pay for daycare or a nanny.

About Blog The heart of our mission is to provide support, training and advocacy to meet the special needs of foster, adoptive and kinship families who provide safe, stable and nurturing homes for children in foster care.

Living with relatives can be a great option for children who can't live with their parents, as it gives them a stable home and links to their birth family, but every case is different and there are many factors to consider.

The Essentials for Childhood project, lead by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, promotes safe, stable and nurturing relationships and environments for all children, families and communities.

Healthy Families Florida is a statewide network of nationally accredited family support and coaching programs that help parents provide the safe and stable environments children need for healthy growth and development.

Although increasing the share of children growing up in stable, two - parent families would lower the incidence of all the problems shown in table 1, clearly it is not a panacea for the problems confronting our nation's youth.

Shirley Liu and Frank Heiland find that among couples unmarried at the time of the child's birth, marriage improved cognitive scores for children whose parents later married.41 Terry - Ann Craigie distinguishes among stable cohabiting unions, stable single - mother homes, and stable married - couple families, as well as unstable cohabiting families and unstable married - couple families.

An alternative explanation for the association between poverty, family instability and children's cognitive functioning is that all of these factors might be associated with each other due to their association with previous characteristics of the parent (such as mother's age and education).25, 30 According to the selection hypothesis24 parents» own characteristics may affect their ability to maintain a stable income or a stable and committed partnership, and impact on the characteristics of their children, either through the environment in the home, through genetic transmission, or more likely the combination of both.

In January 2014, the Centers for Disease Control held a kickoff meeting in Atlanta to begin state - level implementation of Essentials for Childhood: Steps to Creating Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships, 1 a strategy designed to promote the development of family environments in which children thrive.

As we discuss below, one recent study found that family stability trumps family structure as it pertains to early cognitive development even after controlling for economic and parental resources.26 It has been shown that children living in stable single - parent families (that is, families that were headed by a single parent throughout childhood) do better than those living in unstable two - parent families (that is, families that had two parents present initially but then experienced a change in family structure).27 Another study finds that children living in stable cohabiting homes (that is, families where two parents cohabit throughout the child's life) do just as well as children living with cohabiting parents who eventually marry.28 But other research challenges the conclusion that it is family stability that is crucial for child wellbeing One study, for instance, found that children who experience two or more family transitions do not have worse behavioral problems or cognitive test scores than children who experience only one or no family transitions.

In - home parenting education provided by the Nurturing Family Network links client families with community resources to ensure a stable and nurturing environment for children from birth to three years.

She finds no difference in children's vocabulary scores at age three between stable two - parent families (whether cohabiting or married) and stable single - mother families, but she finds that scores are lower in unstable families (whether cohabiting or married) than in stable families.42 Carey Cooper and co-authors also highlight the role that partnership instability plays in the link between family structure and child cognitive development, although these links are much weaker than those they find for behavioral development (discussed below).43

One evaluation conducted in Queensland, Australia, reported moderate reductions in depressive symptoms for mothers in the intervention group at the six - week follow - up.89 A subsequent follow - up, however, suggested that these benefits were not long lasting, as the depression effects had diminished by one year.90 Similarly, Healthy Families San Diego identified reductions in depression symptoms among program mothers during the first two years, but these effects, too, had diminished by year three.91 In Healthy Families New York, mothers at one site (that was supervised by a clinical psychologist) had lower rates of depression at one year (23 percent treatment vs. 38 percent controls).92 The Infant Health and Development program also demonstrated decreases in depressive symptoms after one year of home visiting, as well as at the conclusion of the program at three years.93 Among Early Head Start families, maternal depressive symptoms remained stable for the program group during the study and immediately after it ended, but decreased just before their children entered kindergarten.94 No program effects were found for maternal depression in the Nurse - Family Partnership, Hawaii Healthy Start, Healthy Families Alaska, or Early Start pFamilies San Diego identified reductions in depression symptoms among program mothers during the first two years, but these effects, too, had diminished by year three.91 In Healthy Families New York, mothers at one site (that was supervised by a clinical psychologist) had lower rates of depression at one year (23 percent treatment vs. 38 percent controls).92 The Infant Health and Development program also demonstrated decreases in depressive symptoms after one year of home visiting, as well as at the conclusion of the program at three years.93 Among Early Head Start families, maternal depressive symptoms remained stable for the program group during the study and immediately after it ended, but decreased just before their children entered kindergarten.94 No program effects were found for maternal depression in the Nurse - Family Partnership, Hawaii Healthy Start, Healthy Families Alaska, or Early Start pFamilies New York, mothers at one site (that was supervised by a clinical psychologist) had lower rates of depression at one year (23 percent treatment vs. 38 percent controls).92 The Infant Health and Development program also demonstrated decreases in depressive symptoms after one year of home visiting, as well as at the conclusion of the program at three years.93 Among Early Head Start families, maternal depressive symptoms remained stable for the program group during the study and immediately after it ended, but decreased just before their children entered kindergarten.94 No program effects were found for maternal depression in the Nurse - Family Partnership, Hawaii Healthy Start, Healthy Families Alaska, or Early Start pfamilies, maternal depressive symptoms remained stable for the program group during the study and immediately after it ended, but decreased just before their children entered kindergarten.94 No program effects were found for maternal depression in the Nurse - Family Partnership, Hawaii Healthy Start, Healthy Families Alaska, or Early Start pFamilies Alaska, or Early Start programs.

Children in stable, two - parent families also were less likely to have engaged in delinquency or violence, seen a therapist for an emotional problem, smoked during the previous month, or thought about or attempted suicide.