Sentences with phrase «than children growing»

Most researchers agree that on average, whether because of instability or absent fathers or both, children of unmarried mothers have poorer outcomes than children growing up with their married parents.

Children growing up in Selamta homes were healthier, did better in school, and reported feeling safer and more loved than children growing up in orphanages or on the street.

At this time we can not say that a child growing at the 25th percentile is any more or less healthy than a child growing at the 75th percentile.

Not exact matches

«Growing up in a home with 500 books would propel a child 3.2 years further in education, on average, than would growing up in a similar home with few or no books,» the Pacific StandardGrowing up in a home with 500 books would propel a child 3.2 years further in education, on average, than would growing up in a similar home with few or no books,» the Pacific Standardgrowing up in a similar home with few or no books,» the Pacific Standard noted.

All other things being equal, a child growing up in sunny California, for instance, will be more open, agreeable, and even keeled than one growing up in snowy Buffalo, the researchers demonstrated.

According to the Growing Gap, a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, «In 2004, the richest 10 per cent of families raising children earned 82 times more than the poorest 10 per cent — almost triple the ratio of 1976, when they earned 31 times more.»

The New York Times recently highlighted the long - term impact difficult schedules can have on family wellness, in an article called: «A growing body of research suggests that a child's language and problem - solving skills may suffer as a result of their parents» problematic schedules, and that they may be more likely than other children to smoke and drink when they're older.»

And in his book, Children of the Great Depression, Glen Elder wrote that adolescents who experienced hardship in the 1930s became especially adaptable, family - oriented adults; perhaps, as a result of this recession, today's adolescents will be pampered less and counted on for more, and will grow into adults who feel less entitled than recent generations.

If children and infants were killed it was quick and better than a life of live sacrifice in red hot arms or growing up blood thirsty and wicked.

BTW, you are no different than muslims, either — get therapy so at least your children have a chance to grow up normally.

I'd rather the innocent children be protected than grown men who should know better.

Sometimes I think it's easier for us to talk about «saving millions of babies» than it is to work at creating a culture that can sustainably welcome those babies as they grow into children and adults.

My children are growing up in a different world than I grew up in: the technological revolution has guaranteed this.

For example, on the purely physical or biological level, it is evident that a normal and fully grown man is «freer» in the use of his hands, arms, legs, etc., than a child is.

What a «large family» means for someone with one sibling is of a rather different magnitude than for someone who grew up in a family with eight or nine or 10 children.

Parents are better at equipping their children to grow up achievers than they are at equipping them to grow up Christian.

The whole point of these lessons we're supposed to learn is the idea that one day we become fathers, that we will grow up and have the same knowledge and experience of our fathers, sometimes more than but in terms of our relationship with god, we're supposed to accept that we're eternally children, that as much as we learn, grow and generally build upon past knowledge, we'll never attain the level of understanding or power that god has, this being is on a completely different level.

Somehow, it seems much more natural to be moved to awe by an infant than by a person who is grown, but who may have the same dependencies as a child.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Truth be told... others would call me critical, and negative and cynical, but my heart bursts for the church, I just wish leaders would realize how mistaken we have been to treat the church so much like an organization and a business rather than allowing it to grow and be nurtured as we would a child!

It seems that one should applaud rather than condemn such actions then, since the infants could thus go to heaven, rather than being eternally damned if they were allowed to grow up to hold the religious beliefs of their parents as children usually do when they reach adulthood.

When more than two out of three children in a population grow up without their fathers, all of the pathological outcomes that go with fatherlessness are reinforced and normalized.

Mormon children who grow up under the careful tutelage of the church entertain no more serious doubts about the inspiration of Joseph Smith than they do that of Isaiah, Jeremiah or Paul.

Moody would not have disagreed with Bushnell's belief that «a child should grow up not ever having known himself (sic) to be anything other than Christian.

I was jarringly reminded of the difficulties Hugh Ambrose will face, growing up a Catholic in a country where a fundamentalist atheist can get away with claiming that people who bring up their children Catholic are worse than paedophiles.

According to William Wordsworth, «The child is father of the man, which is to say that a grown person has no more at his disposal than what he has acquired in the process of growing up.

With more than 260,000 youngsters in Scotland growing up in families struggling to make ends meet, supporters argue that a # 5 increase in child benefit could remove some 30,000 children from poverty.

His survey of the social science literature on the topic usefully, if sometimes turgidly, compiles the growing evidence that homeschooled children learn more than their counterparts, at least to the extent that standardized tests measure learning, and are emotionally healthier as well, at least to the extent that psychologists» «self - esteem and self - concept» scales truly capture emotional health.

Often, money is a factor as well, so that rather than teaching to grow spiritual children into adults, they only teach to grow their own wallet and bank account.

If every woman in the world from this year on had no more than 2.2 surviving children, which is replacement reproduction, the world's population would still grow.

But it is much more than survival; through them, the new born babies and growing children are initiated into the God - language of our people and thus we are assured that life will continue unto the next generation and generations to come.

When we confuse traditionalism with Tradition, and we all tend to do that, especially as we grow older, we become an impediment rather than an inducement to faith in our own children and all those who have not yet begun a spiritual pilgrimage of faith.

And these children are the same people who as adults will be called upon to make enormous sacrifices to support China's growing ranks of the elderly — for not only is China graying, it is doing it faster than any population in history.

Now their party has grown into a crowded affair, with more children than adults, but it is still just as much fun.

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

Over the years Justine and Rev have watched four children grow up and move out, so nothing makes them happier than when one of them returns for supper.

Previous research shows that due to their weight and growing patterns children have a much higher risk than adults do from industrial chemicals and heavy metals, and that chemicals can have lasting effects on children's brain development and learning.

«The revenue generated from this program will help fund our hunger relief programs and support the growing food insecure population in South Jersey, which is currently at more than 170,000 people, including 57,000 children.»

It's really funny how children sometimes are much more grown up than adults (their parents) and can handle new situations better than them.

They are a bit larger than the ones you show, just enough for both my husband and I to share a dessert of many of your fab recipes now that our children are grown.

If there is one thing I understand now, more than ever, is how quickly children grow up.

Children who grow up poor are more likely to smoke cigarettes than those from wealthier families, according to research.

Knowing the donor, allowing the child to grow up knowing the donor, or not having a third person, potentially, in your life that thinks they have a bigger role than you would want.

Let's hope the children of these people grow up to be more compassionate than the heartless assholes raising them.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Children who grow up in poor families may have smaller brains than their more well - off peers, says a new study.

Nothing is more interesting to me than discovering how children grow up and their lives turn out.

Children with inflammatory bowel disease may not grow as well as other kids their age and puberty may happen later than normal.

Her contributions to the family are more than just being the on - site grown up in charge of the children.

The manufacturer recommends that children who use this jumper be at least three months old, and that they should use the jumper until they are walking regularly, weigh 30 pounds, or their torso grow longer than 21 inches.

The seat appears to be wider than most umbrellas, providing plenty of wiggle room and a generous degree of recline, while the leg support can extend outward or fold down to accommodate a growing child.