Sentences with phrase «vulnerable than adults»

Their still - developing brains may make them even more vulnerable than adults to cannabis's negative effects on learning, memory, attention and problem solving.

It's toxic for everyone, but babies are more vulnerable than adults.

And should an outbreak occur, children are more vulnerable than adults to suffering serious harm, or even death.

Kids are more vulnerable than adults and spending too much time with gadgets can affect their vision.

Puppies that are still in the chewing stage are more vulnerable than adult dogs who may start to chew plants out of being bored.

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But Jesus was more accepting of women, children, aliens, beggars, leppers and even sexual minorities than OT practice, which I think represents a greater inclusiveness which should lead us to believe that love / protection /» rights» be extended to these vulnerable groups and not just the priveledge adult male population.

And because babies are physically smaller than adults, they are more vulnerable to chemical and toxins.

The soles of the child's feet are extremely soft and far more vulnerable to injury than an adult's.

What might have happened had that contaminated meat had actually reached our children's school lunch trays, given that children are far more vulnerable to harm from foodborne illnesses than adults?

This makes them much more vulnerable to the effects of overwhelm and traumatization than adults, or even older children.»

In the womb and certainly as a newborn, baby is fully aware and conscious and is even more vulnerable to trauma than an adult, as baby's nervous system is still developing.

They are exquisitely sensitive — even more vulnerable to acute or chronic stress and trauma than adults.

One thing we do know: Babies are more vulnerable to toxins and chemicals than adults.

«More than two - thirds of adults in the United States are affected by overweight or obesity, meaning they are also vulnerable to the stigma and discrimination that these proposed policies and laws would help prevent,» said study author Rebecca Puhl, PhD, Rudd Center deputy director and co-author of the study.

Together these programs serve more than a hundred million of the nation's most vulnerable people — low - income children and adults, people with disabilities, and older persons.

In a study with 18 adults who had never smoked, scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have demonstrated one of the earliest steps — nicotine «reinforcement» — in the process of addiction, and shown that some people are far more vulnerable to nicotine addiction than others.

Thus, teenagers are more vulnerable to addictive behaviors, and the impact of drug use on their brains is greater than for older adults.

Unfortunately, children are much more vulnerable to the potentially harmful effects of synthetic chemical exposure than adults are.

Babies» skin loses moisture faster than adult skin, making it more vulnerable to dryness.

They are more vulnerable to pesticide exposure because their organs and body systems are not fully developed and, in relation to body weight, they eat and drink more than adults.

Since their bodies are more vulnerable to water depletion, their need for water is greater than adults.

«The 10 million elephants of a century ago have dropped to less than 300,000,» she says, in large part because poachers kill adults for their tusks, leaving behind vulnerable babies.

Children are more vulnerable as they have longer than adults to develop diseases related to the material.

From our perspective, decisions such as the one at issue here miss the fact that public education is evolving and should be driven by a commitment to meet the needs of students and families and not by deference to a bureaucratic structure that often seems better for the adults in the system than for the most vulnerable children.

Puppies are more vulnerable to problems caused by nutritional deficits or excesses than adult dogs.

Puppies are also more vulnerable to extreme weather conditions than adult dogs.

Children also tend to be more vulnerable to injuries stemming from dog bites than adults.

Children are especially vulnerable to these impacts; breathing at a higher rate than adults, their lungs take in much more of the polluted air.

Administration of a drug, substance, or preparation to a vulnerable adult for a purpose other than legitimate and lawful medical or therapeutic treatment

Breach or neglect of the standard of care may be more common in the family guardian / conservator / caregiver setting due to these individuals choosing to make decisions based on what they feel is in the best interest of the vulnerable adult rather than following valid legal documents already in place, or making decisions by using substituted judgement — taking into account what the vulnerable adult would want.

The battle of wills in even a moderately difficult divorce, in which two adults struggle with the urges and needs of a younger psyche — as if the other person is more a parent than another vulnerable adult, when coupled with the fear attending almost every severing of this intimate bond, will often lock people into a miasma of pain and resentment, which simply can not be hidden from the children.

Older adults may be even more vulnerable to neighborhood factors than other adults.

National Council for Behavioral Health, State Associations of Addictions Services Presents the website of a membership organization of community behavioral / mental health and addiction treatment organizations consisting of more than 2,200 member organizations serving some of the United States» most vulnerable citizens — the more than 8 million adults and children living with mental illnesses and addictions.

As children are dependent on others for care and safety and their brains and bodies are still developing, they are much more vulnerable to trauma than adults.

Despite the fact that women are more vulnerable to depression than men and that CVD is the leading cause of death of adult women in Australia, relatively little research has focused specifically on the relationship between depression and CVD in women.

Typical twin concordance rates for adolescent delinquency are 87 % for monozygotic twins and 72 % for dizygotic twins.11 Adoption studies suggest that genetically vulnerable children - that is, children whose birth parents were antisocial - may be especially susceptible to unfavourable family conditions, so that an interaction is seen (fig 12 The genetic element seems to be stronger for adult criminality than childhood conduct disorder and delinquency.13 To understand what these environmental and genetic factors might be, we need to turn to other studies.

These disruptions are different in children than in adults due to developmental differences which leave them more vulnerable to the effects of maltreatment.