Sentences with phrase «who reached adulthood»

There was a high mortality rate for feral kittens, but outdoor cats who reached adulthood had an excellent chance for many years of healthy life.
Those who reached adulthood would have endured a series of ups and mostly downs while being passed on from home to home, ending up in a shelter in the best of cases.
In fact, the seven princes who reached adulthood sired up to 22 illegitimate children.
The term «older adults, «in particular, should not be taken to refer to persons of advanced age but to those who reached adulthood before Internet dating sites became the widespread, mainstream phenomenon they are today.
The survey, which polled 1,046 18 - to 34 - year - olds across the country, offers a glimpse inside the collective consumption habits of Americans who reached adulthood amid seismic shifts in the media landscape.

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But, as so often happens to kids who grew up in church, when I reached young adulthood, I started to question a lot of what I was taught about faith and life and ever since then, doubt has been an ongoing presence in my life.
Kids who are overly coddled wind up expecting that things be handed to them, and that won't stop once they reach adulthood.
Discusses the impact of adoption on adopted persons who have reached adulthood.
Psychologists who have studied attachment have found that when human kids have that same kind of licking and grooming - style bonding with their parents, especially in the first year of life, it gives them all sorts of psychological strength, confidence [and] character that, when they reach school age and even into adulthood, will make a huge difference in how well they do.»
The rats who as babies were licked and groomed did much better on all sorts of things when they reached adulthood.
The figure is falling fast towards the current global replacement rate which, allowing for girls who do not reach adulthood, is 2.3 children per woman.
Many of the men who died young had reached adulthood in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, a time when many British men had a pack - a-day habit.
Take the worker honeybees with the same father who as super-sisters share 75 per cent of their genes: by ensuring these sisters reach adulthood, more of their own genes get passed on in the hive.
Many people who have naturally brown skin tones have very few problems with acne as teenagers, and then get cystic acne on the chin and neck when they reach young adulthood.
Not seeing any other way out, Callum attempts to hire a hitman to snuff her out, in the form of a young ex-con named Nathan (Sawa, Final Destination), who coincidentally also happens to be the son he didn't know about who is looking for him now that he's reached adulthood.
The odds are higher that they will have lower - than - normal birth weights, lack access to regular medical care, live in a household headed by a single mother, become a victim of crime, have a parent who never finished high school, become pregnant before reaching adulthood, and drop out of school.
As expected, adolescents who reported that good citizens exercise their right to vote also reported that they anticipate being publicly engaged on reaching adulthood.
One in 4 children experiences a mental health disorder annually, 73 and half of those who will have a mental health disorder at some point in their life will first be diagnosed at age 14 or younger.74 Furthermore, about half of all children will experience a traumatic event — such as the death of a parent, violence, or extreme poverty — before they reach adulthood.75 And as the opioid epidemic continues to grow, students are coming to school affected by a parent's addiction as well as the havoc and instability that it can wreak on family life.76 In addition, as students experience other issues — such as puberty; family matters, like divorce; and bullying — having supportive trained adults to talk to in school is critical for improving their well - being and attention to learning.
Social - emotional learning programs improve the social skills and academic achievement of students and can improve school climate by reducing violence, bullying, and other conduct problems.83 These skills are particularly important in early childhood education, as students as young as kindergarten who have strong prosocial skills are more likely to obtain a high school degree, college diploma, and full - time job when they reach adulthood.84
It is even harder to watch children who, if allowed to continue running the show, will be psychiatric basket - cases by the time they reach adulthood.
Rottweiler owners who don't understand the breed's nature can face significant problems in handling such dogs when they reach adulthood.
Kittens who survive to adulthood usually show no signs once they reach maturity.
Anyone who lives near a pet store with the animals who are there and has watched them grow bigger while not being adopted, knowing that once they reach adulthood they are no longer marketable merchandise and will have to be gotten rid of, knows that it is WRONG to stock puppies and sell them this way as if they are not alive, as if they do not have any feelings, and without interviewing and / or holding the purchaser accountable for good treatment in any way.
Upon a certain age, the parent or grandparent can then transfer ownership over to the child, who has now reached adulthood.
According to a new study done by scientists at Iowa State University, teenage girls who grew up being exposed to harsh parents and were insecure with their eating habits are more likely to be obese once they reached adulthood.
Specifically, compared with children who grow up in stable, two - parent families, children born outside marriage reach adulthood with less education, earn less income, have lower occupational status, are more likely to be idle (that is, not employed and not in school), are more likely to have a nonmarital birth (among daughters), have more troubled marriages, experience higher rates of divorce, and report more symptoms of depression.8
When they reached adulthood, all of the children in this study who had been court ordered to visit a parent on a rigid schedule grew up angry.
Children who have this condition are considered to be at significant risk for developing more serious personality disorders as they reach adulthood.
While younger marrieds develop ideas and positions together, amass assets jointly, and develop a rhythm as they grow into further adulthood, someone who has reached 40 has basically been there, done that.
Whilst there is a considerable literature on the difficulties faced by young people leaving local authority care, much less is known about how children who have been brought up in kinship care get on as they reach their late teens and early adulthood.
Studies have revealed that kids who grow up under a permissive parenting style could have high self - esteem and initiative, but also poor self - control or destructive activities when they reach their teens or young adulthood, according to Parenting Science.
In order to increase supports to these adults who reach their 19th birthday while in out - of - home care, Nebraska has put into place programs that will help system involved youth successfully transition out of the system into emerging adulthood and adulthood.
The prognosis is poor for children with RAD who don't get the help they need as they reach adulthood and are released from protective care.
Discusses the impact of adoption on adopted persons who have reached adulthood.
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