In our effort to protect children from physical and sexual abuse, we can not ignore the hidden
suffering of children who are manipulated to take sides in their parents» disputes.
Birth injury lawyer and cerebral palsy lawyer Jeffrey Killino is dedicated to holding physicians and other medical personnel responsible for
the suffering of children who have sustained CP or other birth injuries as a result of medical negligence.
The suffering of a child who does not understand his parents» orders is different from the suffering of the parent who must make requirements he can not fully explain.
Not exact matches
I am part
of the Syrian
children who suffered from the Syrian war.
The family
suffered a major loss this year with the death
of their matriarch, Marilyn Thomson,
who had been a grounding figure for her three
children and, in many ways, inspired their ambition.
The rising cost
of college has added an additional financial burden for many parents
who don't want to see their
children suffer under a mountain...
«After 16 years
of Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals, women and
children who have
suffered violence are waiting too long for help,» said New Democrat Leader John Horgan.
The rising cost
of college has added an additional financial burden for many parents
who don't want to see their
children suffer under a mountain
of student loan debt.
«If you think
of the most vulnerable people, they're the people
who sort
of suffered war and famine and then the most vulnerable
of those are probably the
children.
The Vision document has four main elements: equipping
children academically and emotionally for the world; providing places
of healing for
children who have mental health problems or
who've
suffered bad experiences; providing a welcoming place for all rather than just Christians, and; upholding the dignity and respect
of each individual,
who is made by God.
When you say that love is the most important thing, I hope your heart includes loving those women
who have made the unthinkable, unbearable decision that spared an embryo from being born into a traumatic, awful experience... from a situation
of pain and
suffering... from an environment where people are incapable
of loving the
child or providing for that
child's basic needs.
Lent is a period in our life to remember the
suffering of Jesus
who never sinned, he came to this world to free us from sin and to be the
children of god not only by law but also by grace.
About 15 %
of couples
suffer from fertility problems; many people are unable to find a mate; and many
who do find a mate marry too late to have
children.
This cycle
of short term caregivers causes further emotional damage in
children who already
suffer abandonment and attachment issues.
Who wants to spend Sunday taking care
of disease ridden starving and
suffering children?
Hope amidst
suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots
of life springing from the hearts
of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our
children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions
of men and women over the face
of this globe
who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords
of this world.
After the remarkable healing
of a woman
who had
suffered for 12 years from hemorrhages and after the raising
of the dead
child of Jairus, Jesus goes home to Nazareth accompanied by his disciples.
«Most refugees from the Middle East are women and
children who have
suffered the assaults
of ISIS terrorists and civil war,» said NAE president Leith Anderson.
For the
child of rape
who struggles to forgive, the bad news is that she
suffered a terrible injustice; the good news is that Jesus did too and he wants to fellowship with her in her
suffering.
In its cruder versions, God is the king
who fights on the side
of his chosen ones to bring their enemies down; in more refined versions God is the father
who will not let his
children suffer.
I forgive him but cant forget his selfishness toward those
children,
who in fact will
suffer everyday
of their lives for his selfish undoing.
David Blankenhorn, executive director
of the Institute for American Values, argues for this kind
of pro-family tax reform: Such a family tax credit would boost real income by about $ 750 per
child for precisely the families
who have
suffered an economic squeeze over the past 15 years.»
Most refugees from the Middle East are women and
children who have
suffered the assaults
of ISIS terrorists and civil war.
«A jury in Oregon ordered the Boy Scouts
of America to pay $ 18.5 million to a former Scout
who suffered se - xual abuse as a
child at the hands
of his troop leader — the largest such award levied against the organization, reports The Oregonian.
I do believe that the church has failed miserably in taking care
of all the
children in the world
who are
suffering and starving from lack
of food and care.
While many
of us can thank God that our
children are not likely to die from flu, diphtheria, or polio, or even
suffer the mumps, measles, or rubella because
of advances in medicine, we must be mindful
of the enormous number
of children and adults in this country and abroad
who are forced to live as if these advances were never made.
If it could be shown that research into human cloning would contribute to the well - being
of the
children and adults
who already (or may someday)
suffer from tragic genetic disorders (such as Down's syndrome or Huntington's disease) and that human cloning itself would benefit the
children who are brought into the world through cloning.
Gundry - Volf summarizes several teachings
of Jesus that magnify the significance
of children and affirm Jesus» preferential option for
children, whose social status he identifies with that
of the poor, hungry and
suffering: «Jesus blesses the
children who are brought to him and teaches that the reign
of God belongs to them.»
In making a decision regarding research into human cloning, we must pay close attention to the benefits it would provide for those
who suffer the worst genetic disorders; we must look closely at the possibility
of some groups or individuals being exploited or neglected through human cloning; and we must keep before us the welfare
of the
children who would enter the world through cloning.
She told Premier about one client
who suffered a death in the family and had to give up his job to take care
of his
children, before eventually being evicted because
of his low income.
Otherwise, instead
of dead fetuses, you'll have dead
children and dead adults
who have lived shortened lives filled with
suffering due to an absence
of basic resources like food and health care.
Must the American housewife accept the blame for the
suffering of other mothers
who watch their
children starve?
Any man
who allows women and
children continue to
suffer at the hands
of the abortion industry is unworthy to be called a man at all.
One
of Wallerstein's surprising and encouraging findings was that even people
who had
suffered terrible abuse or neglect in childhood could still form happy and satisfying «rescue» marriages — marriages that healed the hurts
of the past and enabled people to raise their
children lovingly and well.
Where is the «loving kindness» to the families
of sick
children who are
suffering untold agonies as they watch their
children die.
We are a society
of cowards,
who have refused to address the
suffering of tens
of thousands
of children over generations
of time.
Who but a madman or a prophet would have imagined, as novelist Walker Percy did, that a whole industry
of profitable «Qualitarian Centers» would spring up, where, as one
of Percy's characters explained, doctors would respect «the right
of an unwanted
child not to have to endure a life
of suffering»?
Beloved functions not as a supernatural but as a frightening natural presence, in her double significance as both the
child killed by her mother to spare her a life
of slavery and the haunting memory
of all blacks
who suffered and died under slavery.
As a
child I used to
suffer tortures
of shyness, and if my shoe - lace was untied would feel shamefacedly that every eye was fixed on the unlucky string; as a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full
of eager gratitude to any one
who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress
of a house I was afraid
of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain
of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack
of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch it.
My prayer is that such a unified response among Christian leaders around this situation will not only lead to a loving response to these
children but also to all
who suffer, all
who need
of a home, all
who come to the U.S. seeking a better life.
How has that love helped a Third World animist
who has been culturally dispossessed,
suffered a life
of poverty, seen none
of his
children survive to their teens and will die next week after a wasting illness at age 35?
To know that your
child is «safe and happy in the arms
of Jesus» must bring immense healing and peace to someone
who has
suffered this «forbidden grief».
Both Protestants and Roman Catholics have taken steps to purge their religious - education materials
of passages that might encourage Christian
children to grow up with the warped notion that Jews are «Christ - killers»
who deserve to
suffer.
He came to recognize that «Christianity introduced the world to the idea
of a God
who suffers,» and went on to confess that «I can worship a God
who hates
suffering but can not eliminate it, more easily that I can worship a God
who chooses to make
children suffer and die, for whatever exalted reasion.»
God is present in every form
of suffering and depravity — painful relationships, chronic illness, addictions, deaths
of loved ones, unemployment, financial strain,
children who turn from God.
-[The Spirit speaks:] Desire not to die in bed, nor in delivery
of children, nor by enervating fevers, but in martyrdom, that He may be glorified
who has
suffered for you.
But if we really experience the Nativity we are faced with the heartache and
suffering embedded deep in the nature
of the event: No decent place for his birth, the fear
of discovery by the wrong people, all the
children who died because he was born, the anxious flight into a foreign country.
It is imperative to recall that the Christ
of the Grand Inquisitor is the creation
of Ivan Karamazov,
who wrote the prose poem in order to counter Alyosha's insistence that, before we give up on God in His apparent indifference to human
suffering, especially the
suffering of children, we must take Christ's own
suffering into account.
[4] Atheism in general doesn't give us the philosophical tools to sort out when a greater loss is worth the price
of ending the
suffering of others — and in fact it can create dilemmas like the problem
of what to do with
children who are being indoctrinated by their parents into ideas we do not agree with.
We know
of many
who have lost a
child, or almost worse have seen them
suffer greatly (sometimes for the rest
of their lives).