Sentences with phrase «troubled children in»

As president of the guild for the past six years, Friend has been instrumental in raising $ 1.8 million to benefit abused, neglected, and troubled children in one of the country's fastest - growing metropolitan areas.

The book dispels the myth that divorce inevitably leaves emotionally - troubled children in its wake.

Understanding whether troubled children in fact generate spillover effects in school is important for two reasons.

However, Bowlby noticed that most of the troubled children in his care were «affectionless» and had experienced disrupted or even absent caregiving.

This, however, is seldom effective; instead, parents and guardians should seek help for the troubled child in the form of therapy — Notably, through the child - centric approach known as play therapy.

Not exact matches

Part road novel, part ghost story, this National Book Award winner set in rural Mississippi follows a troubled mother and her two children as they drive to pick up the children's father from prison.

The troubling amount of sugar American children take in on a daily basis is.

When you try to shield your children from failure in order to boost their self - esteem, they have trouble tolerating the failure required to succeed as a leader.

The documents, which Fortune has not seen directly, were entered into evidence by a defense attorney in the troubled prosecution of a California doctor accused of possessing child pornography.

What it's about: Based on the acclaimed play, «South Pacific» is about a nurse who falls in love with an older French plantation owner with mixed - race children she has trouble accepting.

33 — Divorced deeply troubled woman — stupidly agreed to $ 1600 / month in child support (son was 9 at time); should have fought this as this was based on old income and not what I was really making.

If by «advantages» you mean things like children always staying out of trouble, sickness never hammering away in our lives, or financial troubles staying away, then you're right.

God says if anyone would hurt a child they are in big trouble.

Maybe when you were naming your kids, there was a name you thought was good, but when you mentioned it to your spouse, they were reminded of a kid they had trouble with back in grade school, and so could never name their child that.

The «friend» replied to «quit making me trouble... my young children are with me in bed; I can not rise up and give you anything.»

Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.

It is really troubling to me that, despite the number of new orphans the earthquake produced, Haiti is still clinging to it's archaic rules about couples needing to be married for 10 years, and to have no biological children, and be over 30 years old, in order to adopt.»

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

The anger will cause trouble only if they are not aware of it or if they do not deal with it directly in conversation with their own or the child's counselor.

During a given week, he may be called to the home where a child has died, asked to appear in court to help a teen - ager in trouble with the law, consulted by a woman suffering from menopausal emotional problems, called on by a man who has just learned he has cancer, and another whose self - esteem is shaken by mandatory retirement.

For the latest is precisely the holy, Christian Catholic faith which we have received as children, and which we have preserved in our life, perhaps even through many troubles and difficulties, our active Catholic faith of which we shall have to give an account before God; and this faith, of course, remains the same.

In the end, the precise number does not matter; even one child dying troubles us.

They even remember Scriptures, learned in childhood, which on troubled days come up out of the garnered treasures of their recollection to comfort them: «The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want,» or in a happy mistranslation by a little child, «The Lord is my shepherd; that's all I want.»

The most troubling aspect of Tracy Morgan's remarks is the bodily harm he said he'd inflict on his own child if he were to be seen acting in an effeminate manner.

Tracy has chosen a path of trouble, and In a world of busy adults struggling to shepherd their own children through the difficult teen years, the easy path is to avoid such girls, even shun them.

Who encouraged a climate in which a woman would own 5 guns to which her troubled child would have access?

These were his kids, an older and more troubled bunch than those he had catechized in Children's Village.

Poor children are less healthy, less involved in school, more likely to drop out of school, more likely to get in trouble with the law, and much more likely to die prematurely.

They still occassionally suffer from violent attacks upon them — like other children in this country unfortunately do when at school — but they are allowed to live as they please — and probably would have no trouble getting a passport and yes — they might have that they are a quaker on their headstones — but if they were a christian quaker — they could say that too.

Perhaps, the reason that some of our kids are troubled and confused is because some parents tell their children that they are born with something wrong with them, in a state of sin, no less.

He does not treat the parallel development in Marian devotion in which adult women and men were encouraged to relate to Mary as little children attached to their mother, relying on her to get them out of all trouble or at least comfort them in a motherly way.

Who hasn't prayed over a child, that his pain in venturing out into the world would not be too great, only to have him wandering into trouble with cars, drugs or irresponsible relationships?

In 1969 Pollak sought an interview with Bettelheim because he wanted to learn more about his brother Stephen, who had been a student at Bettelheim's famous home for emotionally troubled children.

Kingsley in his 1863 book for children, The Water - Babies, put these words into the mouth of Mother Carey, a personification of nature:» [A] nyone can make things, if they will take time and trouble enough; but it is not everyone who, like me, can make things make themselves» (231).

As more children grow up without both a mother and father in the home, more end up in need or in trouble.

I'll make a prediction now that Katy Perry, the faith's favorite fallen daughter, will have no trouble whatsoever coming back stronger than ever in Christian music as a prodigal child once her pop career peters out.

Teach children that they will get in trouble if they hurt others, and they will behave better because they fear the bad outcomes of misbehavior.

Some ministry teams work in the community, doing such things as tutoring children, feeding the hungry and counseling the troubled.

The great achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him of the whole life of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment of great ends: the redemption of the world and the opening of rich life for His children.

This time Eli recognizes that this is not just a young boy caught in some pattern of troubling dreams, but a child to whom God is calling.

Abortion can end when the Church comes to the aid of those mothers - to - be are in trouble and families are scared to bring a child into the world — not working against them.

This runs counter to a troubling trend in our culture — the equation of children of rape with monsters.

One may believe in the God of Israel; believe that, as President Ronald Reagan has said, «We're all children of Abraham»; and believe that the biblical script is important for our society — count me in among such believers — but still have trouble with «the Judeo - Christian tradition.»

Economists Victors Fuchs and Diane Reklis say bluntly, «American children are in trouble.

Children of single - parent families are far more likely even when they are not poor to do badly in school, get in trouble with the law, have poor mental and physical health, and have marital difficulties later in life.

I am deeply troubled that the Holy See seems more interested in covering its holy butt, than bringing to justice those that would hurt children.

In addition, those with a blank religion space have reported trouble with tasks requiring ID, such as signing children up for school or applying for jobs.

In Discerning the Signs of the Times he expounded on the passage from 2 Kings 19:3: «This is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to go forth».

I'd read Yvonne Thornton's Ditchdigger's Daughters, and if that dad in a crime - ridden neighborhood could produce highly educated children by forcing them to practice music, then surely music lessons could help my suburban kids stay out of trouble.

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