Sentences with phrase «whose parents left»

All too often we have had personal conversations with kids whose parents left them with a mountain of debt.

«Specifically, participants judged that children whose parents left them alone on purpose were in greater danger than those whose parents left them by accident, despite identical descriptions of the circumstances in which children were alone (i.e., asleep in a car, parked in the cool underground parking garage of a gym, for 15 minutes).»

What does it mean to say «I am Charlotte Simmons» when the Charlotte Simmons who has spent a year at Dupont University is in many ways not the same person whose parents left her there the previous fall?

Not exact matches

Family Tree was inspired by a woman whose father left her to chase a homosexual lifestyle and contracted AIDS after a volatile relationship with her mother, and Two Houses is about a person wrestling with his parent's divorce and the platitudes he received.

We bought the parenting books of course, and we can turn to friends and family for help and advice, but when things get especially hairy, I often find myself conjuring the wisdom of mommy bloggers, past and present, whose words guide me the way a local gives an out - of - towner directions: «Turn left at the big red barn.

I leave you with this challenge from Christine Caine, one of the GC2 Summit speakers whose parents were refugees, «Jesus» last commandment is to be our priority.

You said: My comment above on FB was prompted by friends whose kid is SO entirely dependent on his parents to sleep at night, that he is depriving them of their couple time and their desperately needed sleep, and as a result, they are constantly frustrated, at odds with each other, and left feeling helpless and misunderstood and «joke» about divorce.

I'm a single parent whose husband left 9 years ago and am raising two teenagers who take up much of my time.

Since my last few weeks have been spent listening, sympathizing, educating, and mostly reassuring parents whose first (or second or third) child has left for college, thi...

I actually left him crying while I called a friend who had older children and whose parenting skills I admired.

In my own neighborhood, which I would describe as middle class, there are quite a few kids whose parents go to work early and leave the it up to the kids to get themselves up, dressed, and onto the bus.

Parents whose children are injured because they weren't in a proper car seat, didn't bolt a TV or furniture to the wall, co-slept or put their baby in an unsafe sleep environment, smoke constantly around their asthmatic child, leave medications or drugs out, think that the dog licking their child's face is «cute», refuse to vaccinate, etc etc etc..

Their parental leave is not unprotected as is the case with many low - income parents whose jobs aren't even covered by the FMLA, but it is still under - protected in that they can not enjoy their full rights and their bonds with their infants may still suffer.

Avoiding «bad» schools is, by and large, perfectly rational for pretty much everyone who had the means to do so and leaves schools full of children whose parents are unable to find better options or simply don't care.

The bones of a dinosaur parent or caretaker — whose large skull is at left — lie curled around the skeletons of many dino babies.

But the kids did not need to be present: parents whose children had already left home were only 27 per cent as likely as the childless adults to get sick (Psychosomatic Medicine, DOI: 10.1097 / psy.0 b013e31825941ff).

On top of that, they're struggling with parenting their younger teenage daughter Ali (newcomer Abby Quinn), a too - cool club kid whose transparent lies about her whereabouts and only passing interest in school leave them exasperated.

Plotless and episodic, it depicts a few lazy summer days in the life of its perpetually bemused title character (memorably embodied by Julianne Côté), whose parents are on vacation, leaving herself and her much older brother, Rémi (Marc - André Grondin) to fend for themselves.

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

Sam is without the burden of parents, but this leaves him as aimless and incredulous as the Scout Master (Edward Norton) whose care he's in.

Hillary Whitney, on the other hand, is a well - mannered and wholesome daughter of immensely wealthy parents, whose expectations leave her feeling suffocated in life.

It is possible that parents whose children are at risk of dropping out are more likely to choose charter high schools in a belief that the traditional public school environment would make it more likely that their child leaves school early.

The public school choice and supplemental services provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act were to be the most tangible lifelines for parents whose children attend low - performing schools.

I suspect that a parent's mind would not be as closed as Mr. Willingham's as he senses his child's newfound joy in learning because he is respected for his unique intellectual gifts and not «left behind» like he was by all the other teachers whose primary focus was the test scores and not the child.

Marcy Cooper, a principal at Southern Middle School, near Fort Bragg in North Carolina, says she makes a point of asking school staff and parents about military spouses who may be deployed, and she grants excused absences to students whose parents are coming home on temporary leave.

The crowding, wrote Winerip in the first of a series of hard - hitting columns in September and October of that year, was caused by the «new students with challenging problems» whose parents took advantage of the No Child Left Behind law allowing them to transfer from a persistently failing school to one that was better.

But where does that leave parents whose child is not currently behind by DOE standards, but who, all the same, wish to avoid the dreaded slide?

The prospect of a swiftly growing school voucher program taking more dollars away from public schools leaves him wondering about the kids whose parents don't exercise their option to choose private education, Hughes said.

She left the Bush administration before his second term ended and has since researched and written about the goals of «reform» that parents and teachers and societies may disagree with — get rid of or render toothless any unions, punish teachers for any failure of a student or a school, close as many public schools as possible in order to open private, for - profit schools run by foundations whose motives and agendas are not fully visible.

The better charters siphon off the top students, leaving traditional districts mainly with children whose parents lack the savvy to pursue such options and with special - education students.

I mean, why else would a former METCO kid, whose parents decided to CHOOSE a different educational path for him because the Boston Public Schools were an UNDERPERFORMING HOT MESS and enter him into a LOTTERY to get the chance to leave the district and eventually graduate from Brookline High School suddenly hate the idea of giving other families the chance to opt - out.

In short, every child starts out with a natural interest in art, but for most it is slowly drained away until all that's left is a handful of teens in eyeliner and black clothing whose parents worry they'll never move out of the basement.

I had friends whose parents held them so closely, telling them what to do each step they made, that when they left for college they went wild!

And finally, there is Lola, whose parents are frustrated with the potty accidents that she has when they leave her alone.

With puppies living in millions of homes across the country whose lives stem from cruel beginnings and who leave behind parents who will never have regular lives, the malignant cruelty of the puppy industry thrives right in the heart of modern society.

Once again Little Leagers can enjoy playing the sport they love (for those whose parents haven't forced them to join and get stuck in deep left field) in the comfort of their own living rooms with their Wii or on the go with their DS.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has promised, in the run up to the snap general election next month, that by a conservative government workers» rights would see a huge expansion, including a statutory right to leave for a relative's care, and to leave for a parent whose child had passed.

-- This is a new addition to the legislation which provides a parent whose child (under 19 years old) disappears as a result of crime with up to 52 weeks of unpaid leave.

Wong is one of hundreds of so - called «left - behind» parents from around the world whose children have been abducted in Japan, the world's only developed nation that has not signed the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

He thought of the more minor offenders, agonizing over the young ones especially, whose lives were spiraling, the ones who perhaps had things left in them to do, the ones who wouldn't likely ever murder, but had been unable to extricate themselves from these spirals, from their deranged fathers or their addled mothers, from the lack of any parents, from sexual abuse, from the vagaries of the foster care system, from the sorts of daily hurdles that Walters would never have dreamed about — the boys (and occasional girls) who were at that corner, who could turn, the ones whose direction wasn't already set.

(1) Those who are neglected include: -LSB-...](d) any minor under the age of 14 years whose parent or other person responsible for the minor's welfare leaves the minor without supervision for an unreasonable period of time without...

Starting in 2014, only lawyers whose net annual practice income is below $ 50,000 will be able to access the Parental Leave Assistance Program, a modest benefit package meant to cover new parents» overheads while they are on maternity or paternity lLeave Assistance Program, a modest benefit package meant to cover new parents» overheads while they are on maternity or paternity leaveleave.

It may be preferable for a left - behind parent whose child has been taken to the U.S. to proceed under the UCCJEA instead of the Hague Convention.

Similarly, the extended Parental Leave benefit will only be available to parents whose child is born or comes into their custody, care or control on or after December 3, 2017.

When a party interferes or violates the other party's parenting time — if a party has every other weekend, for instance, and the other party leaves town and the party whose time it is is unable to exercise their parenting time, or if there's a holiday and they're unable to celebrate with the children — that would be a violation in parenting time interference.

(d) any minor under the age of 14 years whose parent or other person responsible for the minor's welfare leaves the minor without supervision for an unreasonable period of time without regard for the mental or physical health, safety, or welfare of that minor;

Most importantly, the programs need to build in safeguards to ensure that students whose parents can't afford devices aren't left behind.

Communicated enthusiastically with communities, especially where the majority of students was «leftover» children, whose parents worked in urban area and left them with their grandparents or other guardians

That stress is not only felt among the parents, but also in your children whose fate is being decided, which can leave them with long lasting emotional scars.

Think back to the Tsarnaev brothers, whose parents, after years of struggling in the United States, returned to Russia, leaving the younger brother under the influence of his elder, radicalizing brother.