Sentences with phrase «way affluent parents»

But the way affluent parents raise their kids equips them to do better in school: by the time they enter kindergarten, the skills and knowledge of the most affluent children far exceed those possessed by their low - income peers.

Not exact matches

Adoption exists for several reasons: to keep down the number of welfare recipients (i.e. single parents on welfare), for the North American adoption industry to profit (to the tune of $ 1.4 billion in 1999 alone) from the spending - power of the affluent, and (formerly) as a way of punishing young unwed mothers for their «loose and immoral» behaviour.

The core of that mush is Thomas (Callum Turner), a kid who just graduated from college and is trying to make his own way in the big apple — without the help of his affluent parents.

In a way, he's right, but affluent parents shopping for private schools for their kids might shrug.

Charter schools have been seen as a way to give parents in low - income areas a choice in schooling much like what more affluent families have always had by moving into a better school district or putting their children in a private school.

They have been opened as a way to save children in struggling inner - city school systems; as destinations for children of affluent parents wishing to avoid what they view as the pitfalls of public schools; and as laboratories that, in theory, can pass along successful new ideas to public schools across the country.

The number one financial concern for affluent Gen X parents is how to pay for college, yet most advisors have never been taught how to do it the right way.