Sentences with phrase «thirds of children age»

Just 1 in 5 children is breastfed for 12 months in high - income countries, while a third of children aged between 6 months and 2 years receive no breast milk at all in low - and middle - income countries.

About a third of children ages 2 - 19 are overweight — three times as many as in the mid-1960s, with the biggest increases coming since 1990.

Almost half of all eight year olds and a third of children aged five have fillings or teeth missing because of tooth decay.

Today, nearly a third of children aged 2 to 15 are overweight or obese and younger generations are becoming obese at earlier ages and staying obese for longer.

One third of children aged six to 17 said there was a designated time during the school day to read a book they had chosen independently (not textbooks), but only 17 per cent do it every or almost every school day.

Not exact matches

«Firearm - related deaths are the third leading cause of death overall among U.S. children aged 1 to 17 years, surpassing the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and / or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes,» wrote the CDC in its report.

Working with a third - party clinical testing group, Neba studied 275 children and adolescents ranging in age from 6 to 17 years old, all of whom exhibited signs of attention or behavioral concerns.

Still a third national survey (1997) discovered not only that a strong majority of African - Americans (57 percent) and Hispanics (65 percent) favored vouchers, but also that it was precisely the black age group most likely to have children in the public schools (those 26 to 35) who supported vouchers most strongly (86.5 percent!).

Two of the children later died in the influenza epidemic of 1919/20 and the third, Lucia, lived on to a great age as a Carmelite nun, dying in 2005.

Also could never figure out why 9 million children under the age of 5 die every year from simple causes like diarrhea in third world countries while archbishops are building 2 million dollar mansions and the Vatican has billions of dollars in art... think they could may get these kids some clean water and some vaccinations?

Nor, for that matter, will there be many Greeks; with a fertility rate of only 1.37 children per female, one of the world's lowest, Greece by mid-century will have a population two - thirds of which exceeds the age of sixty, and very little population at all by the end of the century.

How has that love helped a Third World animist who has been culturally dispossessed, suffered a life of poverty, seen none of his children survive to their teens and will die next week after a wasting illness at age 35?

Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.

The third period often occurs during the middle years — the forties and fifties — when the exodus of the children confronts the couple with their own relationship, in the context of their feelings about aging.

Most young children do not play reciprocally with peers until they have well passed their third birthday, and the majority of two year olds will play side by side within a peer group, but you won't see sharing and the kind of reciprocal play you might see with preschool aged children.

As evidence, she pointed to a 2011 study in the United Kingdom which found that three - quarters of the 6,000 young adults ages 18 to 22 years interviewed about their experiences in sports earlier in adolescence reported at least 1 incident of emotional harm playing sports, one third of whom identified their coach as the main source of harm, and to a 2005 study - one which I cited in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage (Harper Collins), and in articles adapted from that book for MomsTEAM.com - finding that 45 % of children reported verbal misconduct by coaches, including name - calling and insulting them during play.

School - age children need only about a third of their total daily calories from fat.

In 1950, almost 90 percent of children age 0 to 14 lived with married parents — now that proportion has fallen to less than two - thirds of children.

The sentence «The two - parent family is no longer the typical US family» was changed to more accurately read «In 1950, almost 90 percent of children aged 0 to 14 lived with married parents — now that proportion has fallen to less than two - thirds of children.»

However, if parents are successful at setting firm boundaries and in strongly asserting their own will during this stage, the child will shift out of omnipotence and begin the third stage of interdependence at around age three.

Lots of families give children round - the - clock access to the TV — and a third of kids ages 6 and under have a television in their room, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

CSPI based its optimal calorie count at 430 because it is one - third of the average daily calories recommended by the Institute of Medicine for sedentary children age 4 through 8.

Instead of purchasing a new vehicle when your third baby comes along, parents can buy Radian RXT, and no matter the age of their child, they will have excellent protection while riding in the car.

A third study, done by Duazo, Avila, and Kuzawa (2010), discovered that when children were breastfed for longer than 12 months they had a higher score in psychosocial maturity at the age of 5 years, than those who had been breastfed for less than 6 months (p. 5).

In consideration of global public health recommendations, including WHA Resolution 63.23, the WHA Global Strategy of Infant and Young Child feeding and the global impact of exports from the Union to third countries, the labelling and marketing of processed baby foods should make it clear that these products are not adequate for use by infants of less than 6 months of age and should not undermine the 6 month exclusive breastfeeding recommendation; Considers therefore that the labelling and marketing should be revised in line with WHA recommendations for foods for infants and young children;

Adapted from CARING FOR YOUR BABY AND YOUNG CHILD: BIRTH TO AGE 5, Fifth Edition, edited by Steven Shelov and Tanya Remer Altmann © 1991, 1993, 1998, 2004, 2009 by the American Academy of Pediatrics and BRIGHT FUTURES: GUIDELINES FOR HEALTH SUPERVISION OF INFANTS, CHILDREN, AND ADOLESCENTS, Third Edition, edited by Joseph Hagan, Jr., Judith S. Shaw, and Paula M. Duncan, 2008, Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatricof Pediatrics and BRIGHT FUTURES: GUIDELINES FOR HEALTH SUPERVISION OF INFANTS, CHILDREN, AND ADOLESCENTS, Third Edition, edited by Joseph Hagan, Jr., Judith S. Shaw, and Paula M. Duncan, 2008, Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of PediatricOF INFANTS, CHILDREN, AND ADOLESCENTS, Third Edition, edited by Joseph Hagan, Jr., Judith S. Shaw, and Paula M. Duncan, 2008, Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatricof Pediatrics.

Studies show that many children who begin potty training before 18 months aren't completely trained until after the age of four, whereas those who started at around age two were completely trained before their third birthday.

By Missy Borman When I was pregnant with my third child, before we knew the sex of the baby, my boys, ages five and eight, came to me and said,...

It can provide half or more of a child's energy needs between the ages of six and 12 months, and one third of energy needs between 12 and 24 months.

When I was pregnant with my third child, before we knew the sex of the baby, my boys, ages five and eight, came to me and said, Mom, we hope the baby...

Almost a third of American children aged 10 - 17 are dealing with overweight or obesity, and many are lacking in essential nutrients from potassium, dietary fiber and calcium, to vitamin D.

She strongly recommended the following during the third Senate hearing: provide mothers with longer paid maternity leave; establish crèches at workplaces; revive the national movement to promote breastfeeding with budget appropriations, conduct trainings of health workers to be able to support mothers to breastfeed beyond two years, implement strictly the national code, support researches on breastfeeding; and establish a child - to - child program to educate them at a young age on the advantages of breastfeeding.

When children were age 3 years, trained research staff administered the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test — Third Edition (PPVT - III), 11 a test of receptive language correlated (Pearson R = 0.90) with intelligence tests, such as the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Childchildren were age 3 years, trained research staff administered the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test — Third Edition (PPVT - III), 11 a test of receptive language correlated (Pearson R = 0.90) with intelligence tests, such as the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for ChildrenChildren III.

It is astonishing that in this day and age, when guns are the third leading cause of death for American children and we hear stories seemingly every other day about children getting access to adult's guns, that anyone — let alone someone whose job is to give advice — would recommend that a parent be more concerned about not making another parent uncomfortable than about making sure their child is safe.

The third stage, the concrete operational stage that begins at the age of 7 and lasts until the age of 11, is the stage where a child begins concrete thinking and can be very literal.

Once your child reaches the age of 2, gradually decrease the amount of fat in his diet until it's less than about a third of his daily calories.

Did you know that 82 percent of parents think children dress inappropriately for their age and that nearly one - third of parents say that they have a difficult time finding appropriate and fashionable clothing for their kids?

When those calories come in the form of junk food, they contribute to the current condition of U.S. school - aged children, nearly a third of whom are overweight or obese, according to an editorial that accompanies the study.

Just this week we had Iain Duncan Smith in the Mail and the Express referring to one million workshy benefit claimants, when in reality, one third have been certified as medically unable to work for the time being (although this may change in the future) and another third are single parents looking after children of school age.

Nearly one - third of all school - aged children are bullied each year, or about 13 million students, White House officials said.

It's estimated that nearly one third of school aged children between 12 and 18 are bullied at some point in school, and 16 percent of New York State students, have been victims of cyberbullying off of school property.

Two - thirds of evictees have annual incomes of $ 25,000 or less and two - thirds live with children under 18 years of age, advocates say.

It's estimated that nearly one - third of school aged children between 12 and 18 are bullied at some point in school, and 16 percent of New York state students, have been victims of cyber bullying off of school property.

«One in four working parents has been plunged into debt due to the crippling cost of childcare, a report warned yesterday... The poll of more than 4,000 working parents also found nearly two - thirds «can not afford not to work, but struggle to pay for childcare»... The average bill for sending a child under the age of two to a nursery for 25 hours a week is # 96, while a live - out nanny in central London costs about # 32,000 a year.»

Less than a third of children between the age of three and five are able maintain their lies, while a little more than half of six - and seven - year - olds can keep a lie going.

Firearms are the third biggest cause of death in children under the age of 17.

On a positive note, two thirds of children who had RSD and who lagged behind the age level received part - time special education approximately once a week during their first and second school years.

They found that for children aged one to six years old, the cancer risks exceeded the limit recommended by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in three quarters of smokers» homes and two thirds of non-smokers» homes.

At least once a week, two thirds of all children of primary - school age will play an internet game that was created to draw attention to a brand.

Men aged 60 to 79 spend less than one - third of the time caring for children from birth to age 4 than women in the same age group do, but spend slightly more time with children age five to 14.