Sentences with phrase «youngest biological child»

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I do not believe that young children should be encouraged to self - select a «gender» which may be different from their biological sex; or that everyone at school should adjust their behaviour to accommodate such a «transition»; or that people should be punished for lack of enthusiasm about it.

I do not believe that young children should be encouraged to self - select a «gender» which may be different from their biological sex.»

Newborns and younger babies who don't have a well established biological clock probably won't be affected by the time change, but older babies, toddler and children are more likely to be thrown off by the drastic switch.Here are 4 ways you can help your child (or children) adjust to the time change: Read more

Esther has experience working with parents and young children in biological, foster, and adoptive homes.

Programs serving fathers of young children have grown in response to two needs: (1) mothers are more likely to be employed outside of the home, thus placing demands on fathers to become increasingly involved in child care and child rearing, and (2) a growing number of biological fathers do not reside with their children and face significant challenges with being actively involved in their children's lives.

While it might ensure parents get more sleep, I believe this cultural expectation to be potentially disruptive to the biological function and physiological sleep patterns of infants and young children.

Outcomes of children and young adults with cancer have improved, primarily due to enhanced understanding of tumor biology and due to the clinical application of biological discoveries through multicenter clinical trials.

Several studies have shown that in households where the biological father is missing, children reach sexual maturity, have their first sexual experience, and are more likely to become teenage parents at a younger age.

The idea that young children, who haven't gone through puberty, can truly be transgender has met with public skepticism and some experts believe the best approach is to encourage «gender - variant» children to be comfortable with their biological gender.

Researchers have identified two new biological markers of cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic disease which affects children and young adults, leaving them with lifelong health complications including digestive problems and persistent lung infections.

At the Baxter Foundation, the young men are joined by Storm's children, his biological son Johnny (Michael B. Jordan) and adopted daughter Susan (Kate Mara), as well as Victor Von Doom (Tobey Kebbell), a disturbed computer genius who grudgingly acquiesces to joining the team out of romantic feelings for Sue.

In it, a middle class couple with a young son discover he was switched at birth and must decide whether to keep raising him or to swap for their biological child who's been raised by poor parents in a small town.

If we wish to promote sound investments in young children and their families based on the best available knowledge, then current advances in the biological and social sciences must be translated into accessible language that overcomes existing misconceptions and other barriers to understanding.

CFP funding contributes to the initiation of an approximately 18 - month investigation focused on how to communicate with policymakers about building resilience, including the concept of «buffering» experiences and relationships, epigenetics as a process underlying resilience, the cultural and biological components of resilience, and interventions related to both building resilience and addressing the apparent lack of resilience in young children.

When today's children are grown, will they only be able to regard today's biological marvels in museums, as my younger son Jack did last March at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington?

Men looking for younger wives makes biological sense for reproduction, and it is possible that they seek a less educated partner who will be less likely to have a career of her own which might take her away from the house and caring for children.

Chronic stress was having biological effects on young children that interfered with optimal brain development and affected their systems, making their more vulnerable to problems throughout life.

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.

Research on Autism and Developmental Disorders (ROADD) Because there is very little research about the early development of ASD in young children, this study will observe young children to learn more about the biological underpinnings of ASD.

FAMILY LAW — CHILDREN — With whom a child shall live — Where there are competing applications for the care of the children by the maternal grandmother, the maternal grandmother's former de-facto partner and the maternal great aunt and uncle — Where the children's biological mother supports the maternal great aunt and uncle's application for sole parental responsibility and residence with them for the subject children — Where the maternal great aunt and uncle have parental responsibility for the mother's three youngest children — Where the maternal great aunt and uncle will facilitate a relationship between the children and the maternal family, including the children's mother — Ordered the maternal aunt and uncle shall each have parental responsibility for the children, to the exclusion of the mother and father of the children — Ordered the children shall live with the maternal aunt aCHILDREN — With whom a child shall live — Where there are competing applications for the care of the children by the maternal grandmother, the maternal grandmother's former de-facto partner and the maternal great aunt and uncle — Where the children's biological mother supports the maternal great aunt and uncle's application for sole parental responsibility and residence with them for the subject children — Where the maternal great aunt and uncle have parental responsibility for the mother's three youngest children — Where the maternal great aunt and uncle will facilitate a relationship between the children and the maternal family, including the children's mother — Ordered the maternal aunt and uncle shall each have parental responsibility for the children, to the exclusion of the mother and father of the children — Ordered the children shall live with the maternal aunt achildren by the maternal grandmother, the maternal grandmother's former de-facto partner and the maternal great aunt and uncle — Where the children's biological mother supports the maternal great aunt and uncle's application for sole parental responsibility and residence with them for the subject children — Where the maternal great aunt and uncle have parental responsibility for the mother's three youngest children — Where the maternal great aunt and uncle will facilitate a relationship between the children and the maternal family, including the children's mother — Ordered the maternal aunt and uncle shall each have parental responsibility for the children, to the exclusion of the mother and father of the children — Ordered the children shall live with the maternal aunt achildren's biological mother supports the maternal great aunt and uncle's application for sole parental responsibility and residence with them for the subject children — Where the maternal great aunt and uncle have parental responsibility for the mother's three youngest children — Where the maternal great aunt and uncle will facilitate a relationship between the children and the maternal family, including the children's mother — Ordered the maternal aunt and uncle shall each have parental responsibility for the children, to the exclusion of the mother and father of the children — Ordered the children shall live with the maternal aunt achildren — Where the maternal great aunt and uncle have parental responsibility for the mother's three youngest children — Where the maternal great aunt and uncle will facilitate a relationship between the children and the maternal family, including the children's mother — Ordered the maternal aunt and uncle shall each have parental responsibility for the children, to the exclusion of the mother and father of the children — Ordered the children shall live with the maternal aunt achildren — Where the maternal great aunt and uncle will facilitate a relationship between the children and the maternal family, including the children's mother — Ordered the maternal aunt and uncle shall each have parental responsibility for the children, to the exclusion of the mother and father of the children — Ordered the children shall live with the maternal aunt achildren and the maternal family, including the children's mother — Ordered the maternal aunt and uncle shall each have parental responsibility for the children, to the exclusion of the mother and father of the children — Ordered the children shall live with the maternal aunt achildren's mother — Ordered the maternal aunt and uncle shall each have parental responsibility for the children, to the exclusion of the mother and father of the children — Ordered the children shall live with the maternal aunt achildren, to the exclusion of the mother and father of the children — Ordered the children shall live with the maternal aunt achildren — Ordered the children shall live with the maternal aunt achildren shall live with the maternal aunt and uncle

Thus, this study adds to the small body of literature in children that demonstrates both biological and behavioral outcomes from early intervention with preschoolers at risk for psychiatric disorders.20, 48 Together these studies underscore the plasticity of the HPA system in young children and suggest the potential for early intervention across biological and behavioral domains.

One of the interventions designed to enhance behavioral and biological regulation in young children at risk for parental neglect is the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch - up (ABC) intervention.25, 27 This 10 - week program helps parents become more synchronous and nurturing as well as less frightening.

Programs serving fathers of young children have grown in response to two needs: (1) mothers are more likely to be employed outside of the home, thus placing demands on fathers to become increasingly involved in child care and child rearing, and (2) a growing number of biological fathers do not reside with their children and face significant challenges with being actively involved in their children's lives.

Fact: «In contrast with theoretical arguments suggesting that biological father involvement is better for children than social father involvement, the results from this analysis suggest that both are equally beneficial for the well - being of young children... [but] it is difficult to determine the direction of causality... rather than father involvement improving child well - being, fathers may simply prefer to be more involved with children who are already well - behaved and healthy.»

«Because very young children, especially those under three years old, do not function independently, but in relationship to others, the quality of their relationships with biological and substitute caregivers largely determines their physical, social emotional, and cognitive developmental processes.

Families with a non-biological father figure contained a higher proportion of younger parents: when children were aged 10, 18 % of mothers in families with a father figure were under 30, compared to only 3 % of families with a resident biological father.

Recent findings Biological indices of stress, such as C - reactive protein, show that prenatal anxiety is a significant determinant of later outcomes for children, and abusive parenting of young children has lasting biological effects into Biological indices of stress, such as C - reactive protein, show that prenatal anxiety is a significant determinant of later outcomes for children, and abusive parenting of young children has lasting biological effects into biological effects into adulthood.

Among young children, for example, those living with no biological parents, or in single - parent households, are less likely than children with two biological parents to exhibit behavioral self - control, and more likely to be exposed to high levels of aggravated parenting, than are children living with two biological parents.

The effects of the intervention also generalized to positively influence parent and child behaviours during a shared book reading activity, even though this activity was not a specific focus of the intervention.23 The intervention worked equally well with children who were or were not at high biological risk.13, 22 This supports the notion that responsiveness facilitates learning through parental sensitivity and willingness to meet young children's individual needs.

Comment: Female older siblings are far more likely than male older siblings to be given child care responsibilities while young; teenage girls are far more likely than teenage boys to hold childcare and babysitting jobs; new mothers are far more likely to have prepared for parenthood by reading pregnancy - to - parenting articles and books as well as talking with (and spending social time with) primary caregiving women friends and relatives and their children; the ever - present months - long pregnancy itself initiates mothers into a mindset of habitual constant awareness of child - whereabouts; and various biological and hormonal factors make mothers more responsive to routine infant cues (other than severe distress cries.)

The requirements included being a biological parent and being the parent of a child that is 12 years old or younger.

This paper examines interrelations between biological and social influences on the development of self - regulation in young children and considers implications of these interrelations for the promotion of self - regulation and positive adaptation to school.

Currently we are adopting a younger child, trying to keep the birth order with our biological daughter, Noah, who is seventeen months.

My two older brothers and I are biological children, and we have three younger sisters who are adopted from China.