Sentences with phrase «than poorer children»

Of course, the act of simply raising children in a wealthy home is a form of purchasing them better life - prospects than poorer children.

It shows that in the US, as in other countries, children from better educated, wealthier families will achieve better results than poorer children.

No one had all the answers yet, but they had, at least, a new set of questions: What specific resources did middle - class children have that allowed them to succeed at such higher rates than poor children?

Contributor Meredith Phillip finds that between birth and age six, wealthier children will have spent as many as 1,300 more hours than poor children on child enrichment activities such as music lessons, travel, and summer camp.

For example, they found that a poor child raised in San Jose, or Salt Lake City, has a much greater chance of reaching the top than a poor child raised in Baltimore, or Charlotte.

Not exact matches

Through its ministry, Operation Christmas Child, the organization delivers more than 8 million shoe box gifts to poor children in more than 100 countries each year.

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.»

But it is a different story if we use the low income measure, which looks at the gap between poor children and the middle class, calculating the number of children who live in a family which has less than one half of the income of a comparable middle income family.

As insufficient as provincial support for poor children may be, they enjoy on average 22 % more child welfare resources than on - reserve kids.

And while having lots of poor children with JIRAs — and the $ 2,000 in taxpayer contributions that come with those accounts — is infinitely better than any wealth - creating tools currently available to poor children, JIRAs will not sit well with many people.

More than 400 million poor children worldwide are excluded from services like health care and education because they are girls, refugees, or disabled.

The image of the child, holding a smaller sibling on her hip, tells us that these brown children are poorer than us, and they need our help to break a cycle of poverty.

Working the same way, I made a lot less in my home country than I do in the U.S.. However, I was never really poor because I worked hard and decided not too have so many children like my relatives did.

Smaller schools have proven to be more effective than larger schools, especially with poor children.

Poor parents, no less than rich, have the constitutional right to educate their children in their religious faith.

Recent polls consistently show that African - Americans, especially poorer, inner - city people and those with school - age children favor vouchers more than do middle - class whites.

It is more like gossip, peddled to a public far more interested in Paula Jones than in what cuts in food stamps are doing to poor children.

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)

The New Yorker Book of Kids» Cartoons (2001) features only three cartoons with families of more than two children — one a family of fish, another of cats, and a third an obviously poor, white, working - class family.

No matter what organization he belongs to, there is no one who feeds more hungry, houses more poor, treats more sick, educates more children than the Catholic church and we've been doing it longer than any one else on the planet.

According to his findings, children raised by homosexual parents are more likely than those raised by married heterosexual parents to suffer from poor impulse control, depression and suicidal thoughts.

The parting with my wife and my poor children hath often been to me as the pulling of my flesh from my bones, especially my poor blind child who lay nearer my heart than all I had besides.

But I would rather be here in this imperfect place than outside where I see Grace disappearing, where most have lost faith in the world that pushes it's children into employment where money, power and influence is the only road to happiness, where dog eat dog is the Tag Line which tries to conceal avarice by saying The Wealth creators help the poor as it eventually trickles down.

In the space of time available to him, of course, Mr. Clinton could offer little more than a hasty outline of this proposal, but he did manage to make clear that what he was referring to was some sort of system whereby American high school (and, as it was to turn out, also college) graduates would exchange some years of service, either as policemen, environmental workers, or offerers of some form of assistance to poor children, in exchange for the government's subsequently paying their college tuition» a kind of GI Bill for non-GIs.

It is probably no easier for people in poorer countries to get used to the idea of having fewer children than it is for us to change our attitudes toward economic growth.

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Through their various mandates and mindsets, international institutions have put families and poor countries on the horns of a deadly dilemma: They can have social and political progress or they can have more than one or two children.

A larger percentage of such births are to children in disadvantaged / poor / broken households, who then often get poorer and less adequate educations than the general population does.

The God who spared Nineveh, the God who in Jesus Christ told us that the last shall be first, has more respect for children than for armies, for animals than for buildings, for the poor whose lives are ruled by others than for those who boast of their power.

As late as in 1531, Luther said of the parsons: «They are now poorer than before [i.e., in Roman Catholicism], and if they have wife and children they are beggars indeed.»

A magazine article disputed this assertion by pointing out that despite consuming 385 million gallons of beer per year (more than 20 gallons for every man, woman, and child), Australia ranked a poor seventh in per - capita beer consumption, behind the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Britain, and Belgium.

Additional deaths resulting from further delay of the launch of golden rice will not be random; they will be largely restricted to children younger than 5 — some of the poorest and most vulnerable young people in the world.

Factor in that poor black children are almost three times more likely to be held back in school than their white counterparts.

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Do poor parents raise their children differently than middle - class parents do?

Cuba, a poorer country than the United States but with substantially higher breastfeeding rates and much better breastfeeding support, has an under - 5 mortality rate of 7 children per 1,000 live births (better than the United -LSB-...]

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.

She says that women who are poor are having children at a higher rate (and unplanned pregnancies at an even higher rate than that) while women with higher economic status are having fewer and fewer children.

Why is it, exactly, that poor children are less likely to succeed, on average, than middle - class children?

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

Rather than promoting positive qualities (like verbal skills), poor parents tend to let children go their own way and then use harsh punishment when they get into trouble.

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.

Fathers will undertake learning activities that they perceive will benefit their children through: ««a desire to build stronger relationships with their children ««a belief that helping their children to learn is important for their children's success (even when their own school experience was poor) ««a strong desire for their children to do better than they did (Fletcher, 1997).

Unsurprisingly, the results of the study revealed that both teachers and mothers caring for their children reported that kids who were poor sleepers in the toddler years had more behavioral problems than those who slept longer.

An early - reading child may have poorer co-ordination or motor skills than his more active peers.

Rather than prevent your child from making a mistake, sometimes it's helpful to let him make a poor choice.

For instance, in the United States, researchers usually confirm that children with permissive parents tend to have poorer outcomes than do kids with authoritative parents.

It took me less than two seconds of looking at the child to realize his mother had put him down on hot asphalt without shoes on, and his «fit» was actually cries of pain as he danced around trying to keep his poor little feet off the asphalt while trying to push past his mommy to get back into the car.

They grow up in a junk food culture, and do not buy into the idea that children — least of all poor black children — should be eating better than everyone else.

In fact, good single moms are 62 percent better at lowering the risk of drug abuse by their kids than two - parent households where the father - child relationship is poor.