Sentence examples for adequate parent from inspiring English sources

FDR would have never supported the idea that a 14-year-old high school dropout plus a welfare check plus an occasional visit from a social worker equals an adequate parent.

The law only requires that you be an adequate parent.

Parents try to present a "good and adequate parent self" by publicly disciplining their children (Brown, 1979) or demonstrating their moral responsibility through apologising to others present or accounting for their children's behaviour (Ryan, 2008).

Information and skills needed for adequate parenting can be addressed in parent programs to reduce parental stress.

For 12 years, Karen Matthews, mother of seven, wobbled precariously along the line separating adequate parenting and child neglect.

The girl, known as "Child B", was placed for adoption in August after a ruling by a judge at a private family court hearing in Oxford found that her mother was incapable of providing adequate parenting or setting boundaries.

It's that there are too many things that matter: too many tasks we pretty much have to accomplish in order to keep our jobs, pay the rent, be adequate parents, find a modicum of fulfilment, and so on.

The story of how she trained her tamarins to become adequate parents lays the foundation for discussions about the crucial role of early experience on parenting in primates, and how certain types of experiences, such as anxiety and social isolation, can trigger neglectful or abusive parenting.

Now we've intervened, traumatized the kid, traumatized the family, and we have a process of determining that adequate parenting, and then only adequate parenting, is taking place.

In any humane country, Ames would have had legally mandated adequate parenting time with her newborn children.

Zayas wrote afterward that he believed "the continued detention of this child and her mother is jeopardizing Estrella's developmental trajectory as well as Melida's capacity to provide adequate parenting to her daughter".