Example sentences of "[conj] [art] parents ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , if parents are able to have their views upheld ( as might occur on an appeal against a decision not to reinstate a permanently excluded pupil ) , ‘ it may not be clear whether it is primarily the child 's right or the parents ' rights over upbringing which is being upheld ’ . |
| 2 | The Court of Appeal dismissed a mother 's appeal from an order of Judge Wroath in the Portsmouth County Court on 11 May 1989 that a girl should be adopted and that the parents ' consents to the adoption be dispensed with on the ground that they were unreasonably withheld . |
| 3 | In May 1989 Judge Wroath made an adoption order and ordered that the parents ' consent to the adoption be dispensed with on the ground that it was being unreasonably withheld . |
| 4 | But it seemed that the Parents ' Association thought fifty pounds a week for merely one phase of the competition excessive . |
| 5 | It became obvious that the Parents ' Action Committee needed to find somewhere else to carry out its own work . |
| 6 | However , in Finkelhor 's review , several factors emerged as being consistently associated with higher risk of sexual abuse : when a child lives without one of the biological parents ; when the mother is unavailable to the child either as a result of employment outside the home or disability and illness ; when a child reports that the parents ' marriage is unhappy or conflictual ; when the child reports having a poor relationship with the parents or being subject to extremely punitive discipline or child abuse ; when the child reports having a step-father . |
| 7 | In their response to the Houghton Report which preceded the Act in 1972 , BASW argued that the law should not allow parental responsibilities to be removed ( under Section 2 of the 1948 Act ) unless there were good reason to suppose that the local authority 's judgment of the child 's interests was better than the parents ' . |
| 8 | In most recorded ‘ adoptions ’ , the new fry were smaller than the parents ' own offspring . |
| 9 | Based on extensive research , it concluded that parents ' attitudes to education were of supreme importance in influencing children 's educational success — more so than the parents ' educational or occupational status , than material circumstances at home , and than schools themselves . |
| 10 | If the parents ' reactions are inconsistent or uncertain the child will start to make more and more demands until the predictable success occurs . |
| 11 | If they do so , they are making decisions which they have no right to make , because it is the doctor 's obligation to save life not take it , and the parents ' duty to stand by their children from the day they are born or , if this is not feasible , for society itself to step in and shoulder this ultimate demand upon it . |
| 12 | The headteacher who is in the playground in the morning to greet children and parents and also there in the afternoon to see the children safely away is in a strong position to encourage casual chatter about learning , teaching and the parents ' perceptions of the school . |
| 13 | Social workers , she says , have a primary responsibility to ensure that the case conference has information relating to the family background , and the parents ' views on the issues . |
| 14 | On many occasions in our study we found a sharp contrast between the professionals ' perception that a high degree of consensus had been reached and the parents ' perception that they had agreed to a course of action because they saw no other real choice , particularly if the urgent needs of the child and other family members were to be quickly met . |
| 15 | Once this link is established Mrs Shott is asked to consider a residential placement and the parents ' own anxieties about their family situation and needs are used to justify the proposal being put forward . |
| 16 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had decided to use some of the proceeds from its sale of the Harrison-Towns field to build squash-courts , and the Parents ' Association was about to launch an Appeal to raise money for a swimming pool , the lack of which had been bemoaned since the move to Buxton Road . |
| 17 | Miss Outram was still at school , and the parents ' wishes had been ignored in London and Derby . |
| 18 | It has been noted elsewhere that there are many community level variables ( schools , adequacy of water supply , transportation , medical personnel and facilities , etc ) that affect child health and the parents ' ability to overcome health problems and hazards . |
| 19 | The Minnesota law , requiring both parents be told , was upheld by a local federal appeals court , since the parents ' consent was not required . |
| 20 | I am sure she speaks for many people in the village who are alarmed and distressed at the school conflict , of which they have probably been aware only since the parents ' petition . |
| 21 | The court should not substitute its own decision for that of the parent but had to say whether the parents ' decision was outside the band of reasonableness . |
| 22 | At least a dozen pupils were educated free of charge on a promise that fees would be paid when the parents ' situation improved . |
| 23 | ‘ Whatever the contribution of aggressive toys to children 's anti-social behaviour may be , ’ concludes Professor Goldstein , ‘ it is fairly minor compared to such factors as the parents ' use of aggression and their tolerance of their child 's aggression . ’ |