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parenting

the manner in which the senior managers of a company manage their subordinate companies or business units. Good parenting in the form of dear goals for business unit managers, monitoring of their performance, appropriate rewards and tight financial controls can improve the performance of these business units. See DIVERSIFICATION.

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Type 1--Parenting: Assist families with parenting and child-rearing skills, understanding child and adolescent development and setting home conditions that support children as students at each age and grade level.

Building a strong community partnership: when it comes to creating effectives school-family-community partnerships, take some advice from veteran districts

It is well documented that the probability of children and adolescents acquiring nonoptimal health behaviors and developmental problems increases substantially in the presence of ineffective parenting practices.

Parenting capacities and health outcomes in youths and adolescents (R21)

In 2003, as he introduced a bill to ban gay foster parenting, Texas legislator Robert Talton (R-Pasadena) told the state's House of Representatives: "If it was me I would rather [leave] kids in orphanages as such--this is where they are now if they're not fostered out.

All happy families: the looming battle over gay parenting

Research on teen pregnancy and parenthood indicates that teens are not well prepared for parenting, and are more likely to live in poverty and to interrupt their education than are older mothers (Braithwaite & Taylor, 2001) Also, the overall quality of a young mother's life is greatly compromised in comparison to the lives of young women who wait until they are older to become pregnant.

Essential components of a mentoring program for pregnant and parenting teens

Additionally, parents were instructed in parenting and familial skills and students were provided with counseling services as needed.

Meeting the needs of students and parents

But in the long run, both roles are vital to a nation's survival, with the new realities created by aging and the deepening demand for human capital formation making successful parenting all the more so.

Raising hell: how the punishing costs of childbearing imperil us all

Our adoption and foster care policies are built on the premise that parenting is an intensely personal endeavor.

Judith S. Modell, A Sealed and Sacred Kinship: the Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption

According to the NGLTF, privileges enjoyed by heterosexual married couples but denied to gay parents include: legal recognition of the parent-child relationship for children born during the relationship; recognition of parental status under the Family and Medical Leave Act; access to child support when the parental relationship ends; the right to petition for visitation and custody after the dissolution of a relationship; and On some states) adoption and foster parenting.

Partners as parents: challenges faced by gays denied marriage

The three studies reviewed in this article revolutionized our understanding of how parenting and socialization influence children's behavior.

Do as I do: the circle of parenting and socialization

If at its inception schooling represented an attempt to standardize the inculcation of skills, habits, and culture in children, during the first half of the twentieth century educators increasingly fastened their attention on the deficiencies of the home and parenting.

Parents and School: The 150 Year Struggle for Control in American Education. (Reviews)

It's really important for kids to understand that no one can make anyone do anything," says Gail Gross, a parenting expert.