Sentences with phrase «than their siblings who»

One baby may be laid back and take longer to nurse than a sibling who seemed more intent on getting the job done.

Children who have been identified as potential caregivers by their parents are three times as likely to actually become caregivers than siblings who were not mentioned.

In a survey of 8,387 siblings, 48 percent of identical twins and 24 percent of fraternal twins reported similar levels of moderate to extreme loneliness, with much higher agreement than siblings who were not twins.

They found that mice with the human brain cells had memories that were four times better than their siblings who did not have the injections.

Siblings who share the same genes (identical twins) end up being substantially more similar on abstract social and emotional traits such as conscientiousness and grit than siblings who share only half their genes (fraternal twins), regardless of whether they are raised in the same families and attend the same schools.

Using data from surveys of representative samples of families that included information on whether children had or had not participated in Head Start, Currie found that white children who attended Head Start centers were less often held back in school than siblings who did not participate in Head Start.

«Singletons who had family resources all to themselves would be healthier, wealthier, and better educated than siblings who had to compete with each other for parental investment,» Fong says the theory went.

Children conceived to mothers living within 2 miles of a Superfund site before it was cleaned are 7.4 percentage points more likely to repeat a grade, have 0.06 of a standard deviation lower test scores, and are 6.6 percentage points more likely to be suspended from school than their siblings who were conceived after the site was cleaned.

In a follow - up study 10 years after the divorce, however, the youngest children were adjusting to their new environments and interactions better than siblings who were older at the time of the divorce.

Not exact matches

Kids who are born in the middle tend to be less well defined in their personalities than their older or younger siblings.

What better way to celebrate than to share the story of our sibling studio owners, who are not only sisters but also business partners?

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.

A study by JAMA Pediatrics, which focused on children in Denmark and Sweden, found that those who'd experienced the death of a sibling before age 18 were more than 70 percent more likely to die during the course of the nearly four decade study than those who had not lost a sibling.

We are siblings in Christ to love and encourage each other, but the damage the church at large has done in their good faith attempts to «keep people in check» is incalculably higher than loving them and entrusting them to Jesus who knows how to reach our hearts.

«And to the lady who sees her dog differently after it nipped at her baby ~ that's no different than a child being jealous of a new sibling.»

He has a sister a year younger than he is and I have 4 younger siblings who are all around 2 years apart.

I think that gives the midwives the luxury of having extra time to spend on normal concerns that women have in pregnancy about the correct diet, help with exercise, questions about travel, questions about integrating older siblings into the arrival of a new baby, many kinds of normal things that we really just have the luxury of getting into in a deeper way than physicians may, who are dealing with more medical complications.

«This is more than a real job for me,» admitted Laura Ravenna, 35, of Elmhurst, who exhibits her work with her artist parents and siblings under the banner M - O - M Enterprises.

It took me a while to finally realize that... All of those kids who seem more advanced than your kid have other siblings to mimic and learn from.

They found that normal siblings who weren't given the exercises, but just were around in the background also seemed to learn faster than their peers.

Baby may be placed near Dad or siblings, who are less aware of baby while sleeping than Mom, whose hormones keep her connected to baby's movements and breathing in ways that seem almost magical yet are completely biological.

Looks more like a «toy» than the other models we tested; this may cause trouble for a child eager to keep up with an older sibling who has a sleek metallic scooter.

It is often the case that children who have older siblings are better at sharing than only children as they are used to being around other children; your child will adjust in time so don't worry.

Babies born via C - section compared to their siblings, who were born vaginally, are 64 % more likely than their natural born brothers and sisters to be overweight.

I knew right then and there that she needed to be treated different than her older sibling who was very obedient and compliant.

In all of those discussions, the ones who moved me most were parents who wanted nothing more than to see their gay and lesbian children share the same benefits, protections and love with their significant others as their siblings and other married couples do.

So say Doug Downey and Donna Bobbit - Zeher of Ohio State University, Columbus, who found that kids with siblings make no more friends than those without.

Indeed, Paul M. Wise, who led the study, points out that fraternal twins are no more genetically similar than any other pair of siblings.

The study shows that children who had been exposed to paracetamol for more than 28 days of pregnancy had poorer gross motor skills, poor communication skills and more behavioural problems compared with unexposed siblings.

And among identical twin siblings, who have the same genome, immune system features differed more strikingly within older twin pairs than in younger sets.

The notion of such a struggle was first suggested by his close friend Robert Trivers, a theoretical biologist at Rutgers who had observed an indirect form of sibling rivalry in which offspring each try to get more resources than their parents can allocate to them.

After adjusting for maternal IQ and education, characteristics of the home environment, school district, and number of siblings, the children who were exposed to greater than 5 parts arsenic per billion of household well water (WAs ≥ 5 μg / L) showed reductions in Full Scale, Working Memory, Perceptual Reasoning and Verbal Comprehension scores, losses of 5 - 6 points, considered a significant decline, that may translate to problems in school, according to Gail Wasserman, PhD, professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia, and the study's first author.

If you have three or more siblings, odds are that you have at least one year less of education than someone who has no siblings.

Children older than four were more likely to have a sibling who underwent a car seat inspection — many may have even been brought along with no intention from the parent of having the older child's seat evaluated.

What they discovered was that men who reported health problems at the age of 16 had a lower probability of becoming fathers than men who did not report the same issues; this «selection effect» remained the same even when «family variables» like parental social class or siblings were taken into account.

The study's results suggest that children with sensitive genotypes who come from low - income homes will be less financially successful than their same sex sibling without those genotypes.

For instance, when the researchers removed the possible confounding influence of ApoE4 by looking only at families lacking that ApoE variant, they found that the frequency of the mutant A2M gene in Alzheimer's patients was four times greater than in their siblings who did not have the disease.

«The increased risk of high blood pressure in siblings suggests that family history contributes to the increased risk of high blood pressure in women during pregnancy; however, women who had high blood pressure in pregnancy were still more likely to develop high blood pressure later in life than their sisters who had normal blood pressure in pregnancy,» said Dr. Weissgerber.

His Hutch team found that leukemia patients who received bone marrow transplants from an identical twin had far higher relapse rates than people who used a closely matched, but not identical, sibling.

The Swedish Twin Registry has enabled her to compare identical twins, who share 100 % of their genes, with fraternal twins, whose genetic makeups are no more similar to each other than any pair of siblings.

The research discovered that twins who had early stage macular degeneration tended to eat more vitamin D coming from dietary sources like milk or fish than their siblings.

Inactivity: A study done in over 2,000 identical twins who carry the same genetic material showed that the more active twins had longer, healthier telomeres than their genetically identical siblings.

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Being the youngest of three in my family, I have two older siblings, my brother Tom who is 4 years older than me, and my sister Katie who is 9 years older than me.

But nothing sinks the film more than Jake Lacy and Malin Akerman's villains, the nefarious siblings who run the evil company doing evil science things and making evil big animals and more evil stuff.

are now celebrity witch assassins, with a more than faintly creepy close sibling bond, who get hired by a village to reclaim their witch - napped children.

For once, Rob Riggle is actually more amusing here than usual, playing twin siblings, one of whom is a Black Ops operative who can be a chameleon in any environment.

Suzu Hirose - the eponymous sibling of Hirokazu Koreeda's Our Little Sister plays the energetic, though less than able Hikari, who signs up for the high school cheer dancing team so she can support her sometime boyfriend.

And the first time Edith actually takes in the full scope of her new home, a portrait of the siblings» mother — who is, of course, more than she seems — looms over it all, bolted to this prickly, crumbling skeleton of a house.

With this film, he and co-screenwriters Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman (who also co-stars in the picture) concentrate on that mysterious link between siblings — those people who know us better than we'd ever care to admit.