Sentences with phrase «young female children»

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Most of these were children — increasingly 12 and younger and female — either fleeing violence in their home countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala or seeking family reunification.

I was struck by how many of my female alumni colleagues had put their careers on hold to stay at home with young children, while almost none of the men had made that choice.

«Then while on a trip to Africa, God changed my perspective as I met a young man who had been horribly abused as a child by his female teacher.

The situation could become even more dramatic because the one - child policy has led to a grotesque distortion of the male - female ratio among young Chinese adults.

God affirms this when He uses female - specific imagery when relating to His people — like a bear to her cubs (Hosea 13:8), an eagle hovering over her young (Deuteronomy 32:11), a mother comforting and weaning her child (Isaiah 66:13, Psalm 131:2), a nursing woman (Isaiah 49:15) and a woman in labor (Psalm 131:2).

The demon's victim is again female, only this time she is a young adult named Casey (Hannah Kasulka) rather than a child.

Volunteers are involved in combating female genital mutilation in East Africa, providing counseling services to children in war - torn areas of the Middle East, helping young Romanians integrate into society after growing up in orphanages, and meeting the needs of street children in Cambodia, Mexico, and Mongolia.

The store in Bemidji, for example, is located in a modern shopping center and features warm colors designed to appeal to female shoppers and young children.

International Telecommunication Union Girls in ICT Day is a global effort to encourage female children and young women to take up careers in information and communication technology.

Male and female parents of young children experience hormonal changes that can affect their sexuality.

They found that this unusual mating scenario led to an increase in the number of individuals that a female is related to in her group as she ages — a trend that favors younger breeders and older child - rearing helpers.

BEFORE their first pregnancy, young female chimps often play with logs, cuddling them like babies, much as children play with dolls.

Many blue - chip researchers received «tiny» awards, whereas the success rates and award levels for both female and younger researchers were significantly lower than for male, more elderly counterparts, says geneticist Janet Rossant of The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto in Canada, and a former member of CIHR's governing council.

Three female health workers, accompanied by a community leader, dart from house to house, squeezing a few drops of polio vaccine into the mouths of all the young children they can find, even those who pass by on the street.

The female sex hormone estrogen can perform an important role in neuroblastoma, a form of cancer mainly affecting young children.

Her remains were found, along with those of another younger female infant named Yelkaanenh T'eede Gaay, meaning «Dawn Twilight Girl - Child,» during a 2015 excavation of USR in Interior Alaska, the central region of Alaska's territory.

Recent estimates suggest that as many as 1.9 million children younger than 18 years have a sport - or recreation - related concussion each year in the United States.1 This injury is biomechanically induced, with symptoms resulting from neuronal dysfunction due to functional and neurometabolic alterations rather than gross structural abnormalities.2 Compared with boys involved in similar activities, girls experience higher rates of sport - related concussion,3 - 7 report more severe symptoms,8 - 11 demonstrate worse cognitive impairment,8 - 10, 12 and take longer to recover.11 The neural mechanisms behind these postconcussion sex differences are poorly understood but have been attributed to differences in neuroanatomy and physiology, 13 cerebral blood flow, 14 and the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.15 - 17

In a 2006 study of young children's perceptions of scientists, only 5 out of 30 students drew a female scientist when asked to draw a picture of a scientist (Buldu, 2006).

He noted that the rate of body - image problems and eating disorders in young people is «worryingly high,» so changes to mannequins» dimensions «may be of particular benefit to children, adolescents and young adult females.»

The first thing we would like to note is that on our website 40 - 50 % of whole female users are young single women without children about 19 — 28 years old.

If you want the absolute best match, it's female only or first - born marrying a male youngest child who has older sisters.

Director Jason Reitman (Men, Women & Children, Labor Day)-- teaming up with Cody and Theron again after 2011's Young Adult — is deeply, intimately sympathetic to Marlo in a way that I have never seen onscreen before when it comes to a female protagonist.

The festival programme continues until Sunday 20 November with a number of other film and documentary premieres, including Driving with Selvi, the story of a former child bride, who escapes her violent marriage and becomes South India's first female taxi driver and The Innocents a compelling French drama about a young doctor becoming the sole hope for an isolated convent.

For horrifying sights, some familiar devices: a man in a gunny sack with holes poked through it for eyes and ears, and two females disguised with plastic masquerade doll's faces, employed as always to scare the bejesus out of us, the way clowns can frighten young children.

A young female actor, aged 9 — 15, is wanted to play the lead role of Asta, a Viking child.

Her first feature length film links to the work of other contemporary female directors — Andrea Arnold's Red Road (2006) and Fish Tank (2009), Clio Barnard's The Arbor (2010) and The Selfish Giant (2013); and Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life (2011)-- who unsentimentally yet respectfully look at the poor and marginalised in Britain, especially children and young women.

Complete List of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper

During the conduction of FGM many young women and female children have died from profuse blood loss, insufferable pain or shock (WHO, 2008 p. 11).

UK teachers are now being trained individually online how to identify those at risk or suffering from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and protect Britain's young girls from extreme child abuse.

A male reception teacher, male nursery teacher and male nursery nurse give a frank account of what it's like to be a male practitioner in a female dominated work place, discuss the issues they face, the highs and lows of teaching and their thoughts on why having male role models for young children is so important.

Already used by over 60,000 frontline professionals to help protect children and young people from a broad spectrum of issues, the courses cover a broad spectrum of issues; from child protection and child sexual exploitation (CSE), to forced marriage and honour based violence, prevent duty (radicalisation and extremism) and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

Inspired by International Day of the Girl Child, Bonnie Chiu (@bonniesychiu) reflects on the connection between education and jobs, and writes to her three young female cousins, aged 9, 11 and 12.

Good Girl Work, (Millbrook Press, 1999), which relates stories of female child labor, was named by the ALA as one of the best nonfiction books published for young adult readers in 1999.

Considering that young men make up three out of every five children who drop out, account for two out of every three students aged 5 to 21 relegated to special ed ghettos, and, among young men who are high school seniors, read a grade level behind their female peers, it would make sense to make sure that any new accountability system address those issues, something for which Richard Whitmire and I have argued over the past two years.

It is also universal in that it can be driven by anybody, male or female, young or old, those with children and those without.

In their fear of losing another relationship, young women are clutching on to their female friends as tightly as a little child holds a plastic trinket.

Hello, Ruby will be an artfully illustrated children's book that helps introduce young girls to the world of coding, a world that is still woefully underrepresented by females with only a fifth of the computer science graduates globally being women.

Both books serve to explore dark and complicated adult issues from the perspective of astute, young female characters, and both stories focus on a moment in time when the child's world is turned upside down.

Combined, they paint a rather grim picture of a young female single parent trying to make a better life for herself and her children by acquiring more debt than she can possibly manage on her modest income.

If your single socialize that dog as much a possible with other people (male and female), don't forget the mail man and all meter readers, other dogs and especally young children.

Kittens who were raised by a single female breeder, without children and who does not get frequent visitors, may have difficulty to adapt to an environment with children, even with a man, simply because they never saw many of them when they were young.

«There's an adult male, adult female, younger male, younger female, and then a child.

With extensive experience of leadership amongst the female inhabitants of Saragombe, whilst visiting fellow residents Pamela one day found herself faced with an abandoned and orphaned young child.

Elefant fears she sounds too much like the young John Roberts when she says, «I'm all in favor of attorneys — male or female — who choose to forego their careers short term to stay home with children so long as they're aware of middle - of - the - road options for balancing law and family.»

Many younger female associates say they do not want to be like some of the women partners they see especially those who chose not to have children so they could devote their lives to their practice.

«Adolescents and young adults (15 - 19 years) and adults aged 40 years and older have the highest bicycle death rates.3 Children (5 - 14 years), adolescents, and young adults (15 - 24 years) have the highest rates of nonfatal bicycle - related injuries, accounting for more than one - third of all bicycle - related injuries seen in U.S. emergency departments.3 Males are much more likely to be killed or injured on bicycles than are females.3 Most bicyclist deaths occur in urban areas and at non-intersection locations.4» https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/bicycle/ Pucher J, Buehler R, Merom D, Bauman A. Walking and cycling in the United States, 2001 — 2009: Evidence from the National Household Travel Surveys.

Perhaps the most common reason for leaves of absence involves female lawyers taking time off to care for newborn or other very young children, Above the Law recently reported the results of a survey of law firms offering paid paternity leave.

In overturning an earlier Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal decision, the Supreme Court reinstated $ 839,000 in damages that had been awarded at trial to Wanda Young, a Memorial University student who was wrongfully accused of child abuse after submitting an essay that included an unattributed textbook account of a female child abuse victim who went on to become an abuser.

While some have studied child characteristics that seem to lead to abuse, Gershoff focused more on adult characteristics, and found corporal punishment was more likely when parents were younger, female, more aggressive, depressed, inconsistent and ineffective in their parenting style, or reliant on authoritarian techniques.

In a recent report, the Institute of Medicine identified 5 risk factors associated with the onset of depression: having a parent or other close biological relative with a mood disorder; experiencing a severely stressful event; having low self - esteem, a sense of low self - efficacy, and a sense of helplessness or hopelessness; being female; and living in poverty.39 This national study of depressive symptoms in mothers of children in kindergarten who attended a Head Start program supports the predictive validity of several of the risk factors published by the Institute of Medicine and corroborates findings from several earlier studies that examine depression in mothers of young children.