Sentences with phrase «tragic stories of children»

Baker and Fine have combined tragic stories of children rejecting a parent with a solid analysis of the often - hidden behaviors that lead to such alienation.

The issue was discussed by the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, which heard «tragic stories of children dying» in accidents resulting from disability - related wandering, says Colleen Boyle of the CDC.

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The story becomes even more tragic, though, when the trail of evidence leads him to Dave Boyle, a boyhood friend who was molested as a child and has been acting strangely ever since the recent murder.

And these books don't serve up blind patriotism nor are they revisionist in scope — the stories put a human face on some of our most tragic moments and failures as a nation like Japanese internment, the plight of home children, residential schools, flu epidemics, wars, child labour, the Halifax explosion, the Acadian expulsion, and so on.

It might be hard to see God at work in the small picture of that awful story, yet the big picture is astonishing; thousands of children have lived because of him, and in part, because of his tragic upbringing.

The joyous birth of three days ago is followed today by the story of a tragic killing of innocent children (Matthew 2:13).

As the mother of a child with severe allergies to peanuts and tree nuts, as well as a food allergy blogger and advocate, I was moved to tears by the story of Katelyn Carlson's tragic death («7th - grader dies of food allergy at school; CPS investigating as some parents urge peanut ban,» News, Dec. 21).

They want to keep away their children from exposing to a tragic story of romance or any tension from unresolved shared parenting situations.

When we see the dreadful famines in Africa, it is the pictures of the starving children that persuade us to donate; when we see people suffering through illnesses, it is the images of sick children that call us to action; and, when we see the tragic stories on the news, it is those that involve children, such as the Dunblane massacre, that fill us with greatest sadness and most anger.

As an author and television journalist, Cheryl Wills ventured into the nation's largest public school system after years of reporting on thousands of tragic news stories surrounding the killings of minority children whose lives were cut short before graduating from High School in New York City.

Inspired by firsthand accounts of the stories behind a notoriously corrupt adoption agency, the Tennessee Children's Home Society, this riveting novel describes a woman investigating her family's hidden secrets and discovering a community's tragic, scandalous past.

Even though I knew beforehand the tragic outcome of the kidnapping of the Lindberghs» first child, I found that Melanie Benjamin managed to relate this part of the story with suspense and emotion, with a particular slant on the reaction of Charles at the time and throughout the rest of his life.

Also in the news recently has been the tragic story of a cluster of cancer cases in children at a school in Nevada, where a Kinder Morgan jet fuel pipeline is alleged to have been slowly leaking into the school yard.

While some former students have spoken positively about their experiences at residential schools, these stories are far overshadowed by tragic accounts of the emotional, physical and sexual abuse and neglect of helpless children, and their separation from powerless families and communities.