Sentences with phrase «worst qualities of each parent»

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While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

As far as the government's free senior high school programme is concerned, Ms Heloo said the quality is compromised, adding that «young girls are sleeping outside at the mercy of the weather» while «parents are renting hostel facilities» for their children at a high cost and «young boys getting into bad company.»

They have their moments when they seem to bring out some of my worst qualities but parents do that, don't they?

Moreover, in the public system, the ability of parents and students to ensure that they receive a high - quality education is constrained by the enormous obstacles to leaving a bad school.

In fact, the study shows that parents should pay a bad teacher $ 100,000 to retire (assuming the replacement is of average quality) because a weak teacher holds children back so much.

In that survey, there was a direct correlation between respondents» perceptions of surrounding public school quality and support for charter schools: the worse parents believed their traditional schooling options to be, the more they favored charter schools.

What parents like about grammar schools and what pupils cherish in those schools is exactly the point made by my hon. Friend Helen Whately — high quality teaching, high standards, zero tolerance of bad behaviour and the cultivation of an environment where studying is valued and confidence is engendered.

Worse yet, they may have deliberately bred a mom to one of her now adult offspring, or a brother to a sister, thinking that the puppies will have the best qualities of both parents.

Though resistant pet parents might view buying pet - waste bags as a purchase that can't be justified, through explaining the benefits of using affordable, quality products for disposal, retailers can shift these consumers away from bad habits and into a sale.

Worse yet, it consumes your emotional resources, and impacts the quality of your parenting time.

Out of those surveyed, 29 per cent have stated that they think their driving is of a higher quality as they don't exhibit the bad habits that their parents and grandparents do when driving.

This means the court considers whether the relocation improves the quality of life for both the relocating parent and the child and is not motivated by malice or bad faith.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.