Sentences with phrase «than any average child of»

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Unfortunately, for the average entrepreneur, the odds of their child getting into Harvard are significantly higher than the odds they will ever receive a venture capital investment.

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Parents could deduct no more than the average cost of child care in their state.

Parents of highly creative children had an average of fewer than one rule,» writes Grant in the op - ed.

There are plenty of people out there who have pretty positive self - assessments: Ninety percent of drivers think they have above average skills behind the wheel, an even higher percentage of college professors think they're better than average teachers, and, as we all know, every single child in Lake Wobegon is above average.

But the C. D. Howe report speculates that the rising number of sick days women are taking off — an average 2.9 more days a year than men — has less to do with illness than the fact that women are often saddled with taking care of both children and elderly parents.

On average, renters earn about half as much as homeowners, and the percentage of families with children that rent rather than buy has increased sharply in the past decade, the study said.

Twenty years ago, men and women had similar attitudes towards children - young women, on average, wanted slightly more children than young men, but the differences were nothing to speak of.

He proposed a new indictment of priestly celibacy, pointing out that by the year 2000 «more than one million» «above - average» Catholics will not have existed because the forty thousand «on average, above average» priests living in 1900 could not marry and have children.

The findings add to past research suggesting gay men haven't died out, because female relatives of gay men tend to have more children on average than other females.

While property is relatively more affordable in other parts of the country (six times the average salary in the North - east rather than 14 times in London) it's impossible to ignore that even in the most affordable areas house prices are geared towards two - earner families with two or fewer children.

MORMONS WO N'T TELL YOU that the state of Utah, which is predominately Mormon, has a higher than the national average of wife - beating, child abuse, and teenage suicide.

Poor people on average consume the same level of vitamins, minerals, and protein as do middle - class folk, and poor children actually eat more meat and protein than do their middle - class peers.

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.

Other witnesses argued that, inasmuch as almost 25,000 married couples in France have been approved but wait an average of five years to be able to adopt because fewer than 5,000 adoptions take place each year, it is possible to provide every adoptable child with a father and a mother who will offer him or her the best chance of integrating into a new family.

Did not, for instance, Aristotle say that a proper trait of a philosopher's mind is the capacity of wonder — which children certainly have more than an average adult?

They found that children and adolescents had higher average daily consumption of such foods than adults, potentially posing a health risk.

Part of the answer has to do with basic issues of health: Poor children, on average, eat less nutritious food than well - off children, and they get worse medical care.

- By age 20, children with mothers who drank more than 5 ounces of milk a day during pregnancy were, on average, almost a half - inch taller.

- This country's near total absence of regulations on advertising to children; according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the average child sees more than 20,000 commercials each year, often for high - fat, high - sugar and high - salt snacks and foods.

Centre manager Karen Keenan says assessments, including residential stays of an average of 12 weeks, make no assumptions about whether children are likely to be «better off» with mum, dad or both, but take a firm line that fathers are important: «We start from the point of view of the child, and over many years we've found that often it's the father, rather than the mother, who is the more competent or promising parent of the two.»

Participants with support orders in place paid an average of $ 90.32 in child support in the month before the follow - up interview, significantly more than was paid by comparison group fathers (an average of $ 38.13).

Analysis of time use data shows that fathers devote significantly less time than mothers to child care (an average of seven hours per week for fathers, compared with 14 hours per week for mothers).

These school districts, which serve more than 10 percent of the nation's school children, charge an average of $ 1.80 for an elementary school meal and $ 2.14 for a high school meal.

It is a great investment into the safety of your child, especially if you have a child who is a little smaller than average.

Parents can spend anywhere from $ 55 — $ 100 a month for an average of 30 months on disposable diapers and wipes, or they can have a single investment of $ 100 — $ 500 in cloth diapers, which will last potentially through more than one child.

«In two studies of breast - fed infants involving more than 3,000 children in Britain and New Zealand, breastfeeding was found to raise intelligence an average of nearly 7 IQ points if the children had a particular version of a gene called FADS2.

The authors of this policy statement remind us that, on average, 8 to 10year - olds spend nearly 8 hours a day with a variety of different media, and that older children and teenagers spend more than 11 hours...

They found the massaged babies gained 50 percent more weight each day than their counterparts and were ready to leave the hospital six days earlier at an average savings of $ 10,000 a child.

Even before I started The Lunch Tray, I'd read in Janet Poppendieck's Free for All: Fixing School Food in America references to data showing that, on average, children who regularly eat the federally subsidized school meal consume a wider variety of nutrients than those who consistently eat a home - packed lunch.

If you think your child's anxiety is higher than average, keep a record of when and how she expresses anxiety.

adolescent homeschooled students slept an average of 90 minutes more per night than public and private school students, who were in class an average of 18 minutes before homeschooled children even awoke.

• There were 13 divorces an hour in England and Wales in 2012 • Women were granted 65 % of all divorces • 9,703 men and 6,026 women aged over 60 got divorced • One in seven divorces were granted as a result of adultery • 719 (less than 1 %) divorces were granted because of desertion • The average age at divorce was 45 for men and 42 for women • 9 % of couples divorcing had both been divorced before • 48 % of couples divorcing had at least one child aged under 16 living with the family • It is expected that 42 % of marriages will end in divorce

However baby - led weaning — which advocates babies feeding themselves solid foods, rather than being spoon fed purees — could lead to nutritional problems for the small number of children who develop later than average.

After 1995, less than 50 % of children diagnosed with celiac disease were under 10 years old, and the average age at diagnosis had risen to about 8.5 years of age.

A final word for every parent of a toddler is to rest assured that if your child's language development is within the normal range, but slower than average or slower than that of a sibling or peer, there is no need to worry.

But for an average - to - large - sized mama, I can see the lifespan of this carrier being much shorter than I want, and my child out - growing it quickly.

Parents who work in low - wage jobs can face real difficulties affording quality child care — in 2013, the average cost of full - time care for an infant at a child care center was about $ 10,000 per year — higher than the average cost of in - state tuition at a public 4 - year college - and much higher in some locations.

The average middle - class family spends more than $ 225,000 in the first 18 years of a child's life.

So, if you children are already 3 years old, or one of them is, or they're taller than an average 3 + kid would be, he might have some trouble with his head touching the cover.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

Watching your child's behavior is of course more important than averages.

When you take into account the fact that today's women caregivers are part of the Sandwich Generation, both raising their children and caring for their parents (or, for us, their grandparents), it's not surprising that the depression rates in caregivers is also higher than that of the average population.

British children were twice as likely as the average to have been drunk by the age of 15, and significantly less likely to be in two parent families than those elsewhere, were more likely to have tried drugs and had one of the worst diets in the developed world.

In the late 1970s, the average mother at the end of her childbearing years had given birth to more than three children.

Overall, fathers spend significantly more hours each week in paid work than do mothers (40 hours vs. 23 hours, on average), while mothers» time in unpaid work (child care and housework) is much longer than that of fathers (31 hours per week vs. 17 hours).

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.

Looking at 15 Kids LiveWell participating chains, researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that the average restaurant kid's meal in 2015 still contained twice the calories recommended for small children and more than 60 percent of their recommended daily allotment of sodium.

Fathers, in particular, are spending a lot more time - 59 minutes a day - with their children than fathers spent with their children in the 1960's, when they averaged only 16 minutes a day of time spent parenting.

Plus, many of the sample schedules available online may not account for your child's earlier - or later - than - average wake times and your family's particular lifestyle (say, your late dinners and or bedtimes).