Families是什么意思？

As part of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program, It's asking communities across the country to help the more than 200 food banks and 61,000 agencies in its network provide low-income individuals and families with the fuel they need to survive.

the number of families in need of food assistance began to grow

Americans turn to their families for support.

We tend to think of the Depression as a time when families pulled together to survive huge job losses, By

The problem is that such an impulse is hard to sustain Across the country, many similar families were unable to maintain the initial boost in morale(士气).

For some, the hardships of life without steady work eventually overwhelmed their attempts to keep their families together

Millions of American families may now be in the initial stage of their responses to the current crisis, working together and supporting one another through the early months of unemployment.

So it's only when the economy is healthy again that we'll begin to see just how many broken families have been created

In the initial stage, the current economic crisis is likely to tear many troubled families apart.

tear many troubled families apart

For many families the recession means more than not booking a holiday A You Gov poll of 2, 000 people found 22% said they were arguing more with their partners because of concerns about money.

A study in the US: families had moved to better housing and the children were assessed for ADHD—attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (多动症).

Pay has always been the biggest deterrent, as people with families often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when moving to a university job

There are now growing numbers of people who live alone, single parents and children, and double-income families

A reasonable assumption—don't families struggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they can't?

After that, survey respondents disagree over whether this generation will follow in their parents' footsteps, moving to the suburbs to raise families, or will choose to remain in the city center.

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how sa

But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold's letter revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines.

Can doing one's homework really steer families to the best places?

Children of educated and upper-middle-class parents turn out to be far more curious, even at early ages, than children of working class and lower class families.

In fact, some research has found that people who are most involved with their families have the lowest spirits.

Never afraid to talk up his own accomplishments, a boastful Careme made a fortune as wealthy families with social ambitions invited him to their kitchens.

Of course, sons and daughters want to visit the facilities, talk to the administrators and residents and other families, and do everything possible to fulfill their duties.

Some critics say it is a luxury and shouldn't be free to families able to pay.

The district has become increasingly popular with immigrant families from China, India and Korea.

The school has the highest number of kids from low-income families.

with many Asian-American children attending supplementary instructional programs, there is a perception among some white families that the elementary school curriculum is being sped up to accommodate them.

Young families move here because the schools are great.

Quite often, educators tell families of children who are learning English as a second language to speak only English, and not their native language, at home.

Although these educators may have good intentions,their advice to families is misguided, and it stemsfrom misunderstandings about the process of language acquisition

It is also of concern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is given primarily to poor families with limited educational opportunities, not to wealthier families who have many educational advantages.

Since children from poor families often are identified as at-risk for academic failure, teachers believe that advising families to speak English only is appropriate.

If families do not know English or have limited English skills themselves, how can they communicate in English?

Advising non-English-speaking families to speak only English is overwhelming to telling them not to communicate with or interact with their children

Even when children are not directly rewarded or punished for "behaving like boys" or "behaving like girls," they learn about gender by watching who does what in their families.

Modern urban life in rich countries is not well adapted to large families.

After all, older people themselves mostly have families

Small families are becoming more fashionable.

The predicted intergenerational warfare is unlikely because most of the older people themselves mostly have families

Black students from families with low incomes.

But ￡3,000 trips cannot be justified when the average income for families with children is just over ￡30,000.

But good self-control can be set to run in families in that children who have good self-control are more likely to grow up to be healthy and prosperous parents.

But will such contests, which are overwhelmingly dominated by Asian and white students from middle-class and affluent families become any more diverse?

Chetty finds that communities like Salt Lake city, with high levels of two- parent families and religiosity, are much more likely to see poor children get ahead than communities like Atlanta, with high levels of racial and economic segregation.

Especially in affluent families, children start young.

Families graze on high-cholesterol take-aways and microwaved ready-meals.

Families provide at least as much care as they ever did.

Families with modest incomes should ensure the breadwinner or breadwinners first.

kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

For most families, it's a journey.

In other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending — which may stand for good schools — are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger's rag

In poor families, meanwhile, children tend to spend their time at home or with extended family.

In the Pew survey, middle-class families earning between $30,000 and $75,000 a year fell right between working-class and high-earning parents on issues like the quality of their neighborhood for raising children, participation in extracurricular activitie

Many American people have seen Amish families with the men wearing broad-brimmed black hats and the women in long dresses, in railway or bus terminals.

Meanwhile, pupils arrive at school hungry because their families can't afford breakfast.

MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the power to regulate for plain packaging.

Of families earning less than $30,000, 59% of children have done sports, 37% have volunteered and 41 % have taken arts classes.

Of families earning more than $75,000 a year, 84% say their children have participated in organized sports over the past year, 64% have done volunteer work and 62% have taken lessons in music, dance or art.

One prevalent quality we have found in teens' statements about themselves, their friends and their families is a strikingly positive emotional tone.

She began a nationwide campaign to have a national holiday declared that would bring families together while celebrating the traditional festivals.

Steinberg pointed out that parental sharing on social media helps build communities, connect spread-out families, provide support and raise awareness around important social issues for which parents might be their children's only voice.

Still, it is true that American families are growing closer at dawn of this new millennium(千年).

The lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than ever before.

There is another explanation that Twenge and her colleagues wanted to address: the impact of the great recession of 2007-2009, which hit a great number of American families and might be affecting adolescents.

They found some evidence that some crude measures, like income inequality, correlated with changes in well-being, but economic measures with a more direct impact, like family income and unemployment rates which put families into difficulties, had no relat

Well-off families are ruled by calendars, with children enrolled in ballet, soccer and after-school programs, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

When the children are young, and depend upon the family for financial needs, families with modest incomes have difficulty providing enough life insurance to protect the mother and children.

While states could pass laws related to sharing information about children online, Steinberg feels parents themselves are generally best suited to make these decisions for their families.