Sentences with phrase «white children from their families»

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Elsheikh came to the UK as a child from Sudan, when his family were granted refugee status, and was a mechanic from White City in west London.

The white families expected a highly structured children's ministry, while many of the black families came from churches in which the children were a part of the entire worship service.

The old newspaper clipping shows two families, one descended from a white man and a black woman and the other descended from two white people, with the text, «Interesting researches by the Carnegie Institute disprove the popular notion that a «pass - for - white» person married to a pure white may have a negro child.»

It breaks the Chinese organic consumer into eight main groups: white collar families (40 per cent of the market), families with young children, families with health issues, overseas returnees, business people from Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong (China), government officials, young people and foreigners living in China.

In less than a decade it had gone from a Tasmanian family run business to the poster child for Australian success in China as it took advantage of surging demand for foreign infant formula which became known as «white gold».

A new study of 2,500 white, Mexican American and black children from low - income families suggests that early spankings make for aggressive toddlers.

The respondents were almost uniformly white children from middle - class families, so the results don't tell us much about the longevity of other groups.

It might be tempting to tell young children little white lies about where they came from or where an absent parent is — especially if a noncustodial parent has abandoned the family or has struggled with drugs or mental illness.

At all three ages, African - American children were spanked significantly more frequently than those from white and Mexican - American families, and verbally punished more than the other children at ages 2 and 3, the study said.

In that paper, the NABSW equated the removal of African American children from their families of origin — and their placement in white homes — with «cultural genocide.»

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(White Plains, NY)-- In an effort to protect child care subsidies for low - income families, the Westchester County Board of Legislators (BOL) approved new legislation and two resolutions tonight aimed at stopping County Executive Robert P. Astorino and the Westchester County Department of Social Services (DSS) from increasing the family contribution to daycare expense from 20 % to 35 % of the portion of income that exceeds the federal poverty level.

Commenting on the proposals, Chris Pond, chief executive officer of the charity One Parent Families, said: «We hope that the government's forthcoming white paper on child support will introduce a far more generous change by enabling single parents on income support to keep all of any child maintenance they receive from the CSA or its successor.»

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Volunteers will be assembling and packing backpacks for Westchester County children at the Sharing Shelf of Family Services of Westchester, Inc.'s (FSW's) warehouse from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

And in another move announced last week, the government will conduct an inquiry into a long - discredited policy which, up until the 1960s, resulted in tens of thousands of Aboriginal children being taken from their parents and raised by white families.

WHAT: A vengeful witch (Meryl Streep) tasks a baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) with collecting a series of magical items from popular fairy tale characters — including a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, hair as yellow as corn, and a slipper as pure as gold — in exchange for reversing a family curse preventing them from having children.

Better known as the Coleman Report after its first author, the eminent sociologist James Coleman, the document provided abundant evidence of large gaps in reading and mathematics skills between black children and white children and between children from poor families and those from more affluent families.

In terms of these criteria, white children have enormous advantages: 83 % come from two - parent households with relatively small families.

The percentage of white children in single - mother families where the mother does not have a high school degree has remained essentially unchanged at about 18 percent, but has increased from 10 % to 21 % for those families where the mother has a high school diploma (but not a college degree).

Using data from surveys of representative samples of families that included information on whether children had or had not participated in Head Start, Currie found that white children who attended Head Start centers were less often held back in school than siblings who did not participate in Head Start.

Piney Branch Elementary serves an incredibly diverse group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, from the children of übereducated white and black middle - class families, to poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, to low - income African American kids.

A federal study that shows black children die from asthma at a higher rate than white children demonstrates that many African - American families lack adequate medical care, child - health experts and educators said last week.

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Beginning in middle school, African - American students are more likely than Asian and white students to say they are treated unfairly when it comes to school discipline.11 Black students are also more likely to come from family backgrounds associated with school behavior problems; for example, children ages 12 - 17 that come from single - parent families are at least twice as likely to be suspended as children from two - parent families.

According to the White House Fact Sheet on Obama's educational plan, children from low - income families are less likely to have access to pre-kindergarten programs, and middle - class families also struggle to afford private pre-school programs, yet these programs are critical to children's long - term school success.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

They reminded everyone how easy and routine it had been for schools to ignore disparities between at - risk students — those of color, from low - income families and with disabilities — and their white peers until No Child Left Behind required annual tests.

He said the gap between white British children from poorer families and those from other ethnic groups needed to be closed for England to catch up with the world's leading nations.

Middle - class black families benefited most from the Brown ruling because it gave them the opportunity to move to white neighborhoods and put their children in better schools, said Baum, a professor in the urban studies and planning program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

New research by Sean F. Reardon of Stanford University traces the achievement gap between children from high - and low - income families over the last 50 years and finds that it now far exceeds the gap between white and black students.

«Effective Schools» are high achieving schools with a high percentage of their students from low - income families and a high percentage being children of a color other than white.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

The DeVos family was also deeply involved in repackaging vouchers from their original racist origin as a way to get white children out of desegregation and into an «only hope» for urban children «trapped» in «failing schools.»

Making the case that choice allows for all families, poor or middle class, to meet the particular needs of their children can win support, especially from white middle class families who realize that how they are hurt by school zones and other Zip Code Education policies (and are also condescended by teachers and school leaders when they want more for their kids), but don't see any other way to avoid those problems beyond paying for private schools out their own pockets.

Children from black families in white suburbs are also set up for further success because they learn cultural characteristics of the white upper and middle classes, which are typically favored in American society.

Adopted as a child from his Australian Aboriginal home and raised by a white family, Dr. Robert Erhard is working in Texas as an astrophysicist; then he's called back to his ancestral home by visions and haunting images.

A scheme involving the White House, libraries and publishers will let children from cash - strapped families read free ebooks

A shy but lovable Chihuahua, Anya, goes home with a great family that volunteers at the shelter; two ridiculously cute black Lab puppies, Claire and Cassie, ride home with a nice woman from North Augusta; Pancho, a Retriever / Setter mix with a long tongue, gets selected by a young boy from Aiken; Kaia, a Great Pyrenees mix, goes home with a war veteran from North Augusta; Monty, a fluffy and chatty adult Chow mix, is adopted to a family from Warrenville; Dee - Dee, a blonde Lab pup, is adopted by an Aiken woman; Lyndie, a white and brown Bully mix, finds a home with folks from Augusta; a sweet, tan Beagle, Honey, goes home with an Aiken woman and her two children; and another black Lab pup, Levi, is adopted by a woman from Grovetown, GA..

Located on the slopes of the secure Temple Hill estate, Villa Jamalu is a few minutes» walk (the staff will happily show you the shortcut) from the tranquil waters and white sands of Jimbaran Bay, where the shallow sea is ideal for swimming and paddling, and the perfect beach for families with small children.

Surrounded by greenery and lined with a white sand beach, this hotel complex is suited to travellers of all kinds — from families with young children to couples seeking a romantic break.

Conrad Bali offers five - star luxury accommodation in the water sport - filled eastern coastline of the Tanjung Benoa peninsula, only several minutes north from the famous luxury resort enclave of Nusa Dua.The resort is within only a 15 - minute transfer from the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Tuban, travel times cut short via the Bali Mandara toll causeway.The resort comprises 6.8 hectares of lush tropical gardens and is one of the luxury resorts in Bali that offers multiple swimming pools adjacent its gorgeous 350m white sand beachfront.The resort offers a great place to spend the Bali holiday with family with great facilities dedicated for children.

Located just outside of Jolly Harbour, you're just a short and easy stroll away from superb white... Spring Villa is a very cozy holiday villa with private pool, set in lush tropical gardens and offering everything... air - conditioned bedrooms and 2 bathrooms on one level, this villa is perfect not only for families with children of all... ages, but also for a group of friends.

For over a century, generations of Aboriginal children, mostly First Nations, were taken from their families, often by force, and placed in residential schools usually far from home, where they were to be assimilated into white society.

White children from middle - income families were more likely to have a variety of screens at home, while rural children typically had spotty access to the Internet.

Alternatively, Hispanic children from two parent families were more likely to be reunified than white children from similar backgrounds.

In 1986, Olds et al published the results of a rigorous trial showing that nurse home visitation extending from pregnancy to the child's second birthday can produce positive effects on maternal and child health among disadvantaged families.1, 2 The study was conducted in a semirural area and involved predominantly white women.

Some research suggests that the academic deficits associated with living with a single mother are less pronounced for black than for white children.37 One study found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted lower socioeconomic attainment among white women, white men, and black women, but not among black men.38 McLanahan and Sandefur found that white offspring from single - parent families were more likely to drop out of high school than were African American offspring from single - parent families.39 African American children may thus adjust better than white children to life in single - parent families, although the explanation for this difference is not clear.

The residential schools» avowed purpose was the separation of indigenous children from their families, communities and culture and their assimilation into white society.

Fluff — «White» children from single mother families whose fathers are not convicted criminals, alcoholics, or drug addicts — and therefore not «absent» — have lower incidences of delinquency, heavy drinking, and drug use than «white» children from the group of single mother families whose fathers are criminals, alcoholics, or drug addWhite» children from single mother families whose fathers are not convicted criminals, alcoholics, or drug addicts — and therefore not «absent» — have lower incidences of delinquency, heavy drinking, and drug use than «white» children from the group of single mother families whose fathers are criminals, alcoholics, or drug addwhite» children from the group of single mother families whose fathers are criminals, alcoholics, or drug addicts.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome in a subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22