Sentences with phrase «than family structure»

Family environment was weakly to moderately strongly negatively related to the adolescents» functioning; family relationships related more strongly to the adolescents» functioning than family structure did.

But America has higher proportions of poor and low - income children than other developed nations, and poverty explains more differences in parenting practices than family structure.

Critics argued that marriage was not an appropriate province for government intervention and that income and opportunity structures were much more important factors than family structure.

Similarly, Hawkins and Weis (1985) found attachment to parents to be a more important predictor of delinquency than family structure.

Not exact matches

Many families relocate to more moderate tax environments or work with the family office team and outside advisors to structure their wealth management in the most tax efficient manner possible and may spend more of their time in a different city or state than the one they had resided in prior to their financial windfall.

California family offices are typically sophisticated in their operations and structure but many single family offices are more private than you might find in New York.

MFI has adopted structures and practices more similar to a typical widely - held issuer than a typical family firm.

He suggested that the «quality» rather than the «structure» of relationships should define the family.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

In contrast, much of what is said in sermons and written in Christian literature seems designed to maintain a particular structure of the family rather than strengthen people's ability to function in the families they have.

The quality of care for family members in one's own generation and in the generations before and after is more important than the form or structure of one's household.

Recall that less than 1 % of scaled reptiles possess cecal valves and such structures are not found in this Genus and there is only one other in the Family Lacertidae (Galliota).

If the evidence required us to assume that the earliest beings we call human did in fact embody this structure of existence, then we would have to posit exceedingly high levels of mentality in our prehuman ancestors, assuming that for hundreds of thousands of years they must have far more closely approximated our contemporary existence than does any now existing nonhuman member of the simian family.

When family researchers look at how families function, i.e., how competently they handle tasks, challenges, and conflicts, rather than how families are structured, the encouragement and support of individuality and difference emerges as a key factor In other words, what is important is how people treat each other within families rather than who they are or how they appear.

Therefore in his recorded words there is less to be found about the structures of economic life than about the family.

They were concerned for economic survival, of course, but beyond that participation in family structures seemed more important to them than «improving» their condition.

Some religions, like Buddhism for example, do not believe in a personal deity, and some involve little or no definite doctrine at all, being little more than tribal and family ritual traditions with no formal belief structure.

She and her family lost their home in the Tubbs Fire, a blaze that destroyed more than 5,000 structures over three counties and carved a particularly gruesome path through Santa Rosa.

Some families are more structured than others.

In what is perhaps the most comprehensive investigation of the implications of different kinds of family structures for the well - being of teenagers, Thomas Deleire and Ariel Kalil studied more than 11,000 adolescents raised in ten different kinds of households, including, for example, households with married parents, biological cohabiting parents, single mothers (divorced, always - single, and cohabiting considered separately), divorced single mothers in multi-generational households, and always - single mothers in multigenerational households.

Of the 26 studies reporting family structure more than 30 % of index children were in single parent households.

Officials have said the maelstrom damaged 95,534 Long Island structures, including more than 50,000 single - family houses.

«The state has more millionaires today than ever before, and we'll renew our call for a progressive tax structure that supports families.

Over the years, Turkalo identified more than 4,000 forest elephants, charting their family structures, social relations, physical growth and reproductive cycles.

Kīlauea's ongoing eruption already has destroyed more than 200 structures, displaced families and threatened to cut off access to important roads.

Participants came from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, family structures, with slightly more females (53 %) than males.

(E) the structure complies with the applicable provisions of such other energy efficiency requirements, standards, checklists, or ratings systems as the Secretary may adopt and apply by regulation, as may be necessary, for purposes of this section for specific types of residential single - family or multifamily structures or otherwise, except that the Secretary shall make a determination regarding whether to adopt and apply any such requirements, standards, checklists, or rating system for purposes of this section not later than the expiration of the 180 - day period beginning upon the date of receipt of any written request, made in such form as the Secretary shall provide, for such adoption and application.

People of less wealthy nations may be subject to other factors that are individually worse than those New Zealanders and Australians experience, but their overall lifestyle, less processed diets and better family or social structures help counter-balance these.

Twiggy Pucci Garçon (who co-wrote the film with Jordenö) and Chi Chi Mizrahi, two prominent leaders on the Kiki scene, introduce us to the structure of this ballroom community's various houses, where LGBT youth form makeshift families — complete with house mothers and house fathers, who are typically not much older than their adopted children.

Landline is less structured than Obvious Child and focuses more on the family as a whole rather than a single character.

We unfortunately lack information on family structure, sources of income other than salary, the location or type of housing, and whether and where a spouse works.

If we divide the period into three spans of about 10 years (1968 — 78, 1979 — 88, and 1989 — 99), we find that the estimated relationship between the single - parent family structure variable and educational attainment more than tripled in size, from -0.11 for the earliest cohorts to -0.43 in the latest cohorts (see Figure 3).

If the single - parent family structure adversely affects children's educational outcomes, then the difference in trends across income groups could possibly account for more of the growing gap in educational attainment between rich and poor children than income inequality itself.

Mayer found that a supportive family structure (a stable, two - parent home), a culture of learning within the family and neighborhood, and natural abilities were much more important than income.

The child - care proposals now pending before the Congress, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett told lawmakers last week, «seem, however unintentionally, to put families to one side,» and to «be more concerned with creating new structures than with supporting the very best structures possible for our children: our families.»

While the loan repayment structure facing graduates is much more progressive than in the past, we show above that the structure of pricing and financial assistance by family income is not any more progressive than it was before the reforms (though students from all income backgrounds have more liquidity).

Figure 1 shows that the gap in degree attainment between high - and low - income families more than doubled during this period, from 14 to 37 percentage points [7](note that in the highly structured English curriculum, enrollment and completion are almost the same thing, in contrast to the U.S. [8]-RRB-.

«Subtle» aspects of family involvement — parenting style and parental expectations, for example — may have a greater impact on student achievement than more «concrete» forms such as attendance at school conferences or enforcing rules at home regarding homework.144 Some researchers, policy makers, and practitioners argue that these subtle forms of family involvement are not easily influenced by schools.145 In contrast, we argue that the value of creating participatory structures in schools lies in its potential for increasing family and community members «sense of engagement in children «s education, and, as a consequence, augment and reinforce the subtle behaviors responsible for improved outcomes.146

The study also found a student's level of reading engagement was more highly correlated with their reading achievement than their socioeconomic status, gender, family structure, or time spent on homework.

From our perspective, decisions such as the one at issue here miss the fact that public education is evolving and should be driven by a commitment to meet the needs of students and families and not by deference to a bureaucratic structure that often seems better for the adults in the system than for the most vulnerable children.

Family demand under this account is structured institutionally a priori, sorting low - income students into less effective schools, rather than exerting competitive pressure to raise quality.

Based on this and earlier studies, Reynolds and Temple say the key to CPC's success lies in both the quality of the program and its teachers, the opportunity for more than one year of participation, small classes, comprehensive family services, structured activity - based curricula focusing on language and literacy, and attention to continuity of learning from preschool to the early school grades.

Given that many more students in charter schools have the advantages of a positive family structure, a peer group that is a positive influence, and their own inner drive that many students in traditional public schools do not, it is reasonable to expect that charter school students would perform very much better than they do.

We will have a new engine family that is very highly modular and can be structured for four, six or eight cylinders, not only with performance in mind but it must perform better and be more efficient than the old engines.

It is definitely a subversive practice to disguise a girl as a boy, even if the intent of the individual family or bacha posh is something other than an attempt to transform the established social order and its structures of power, authority, and hierarchy.

This isn't a financing vehicle for purchasing investment properties, vacation homes or anything other than your primary residence, be it a single - family home, a condo, a multiunit property or other suitable structure.

It's so common to see less than ideal body structure on family pets walking through our salon doors.

We are committed to applying our 25 plus years of experience and knowledge to producing Olde English Bulldogges and English Bantam Bulldogges that possess a temperament that allows them to excel as wonderful family companions, that exhibit correct structure per their approved IOEBA and UCA breed standards and that enjoy greater health than most of today's other bully breeds.

Rather than a classic storytelling structure that reunites side characters and recalls subplots increasing the scale of the climax, Lost Odyssey cuts back on the complexity of the game, and focuses on family matters and a fifth immortal who betrayed the others.