Amine Wefali and her husband, Phillip, an investment banker, had four children, a weakness for pricey real estate (and, as it turned out, infidelity), and a rickety marriage that was thirty years old when it finally collapsed.
We restricted our analyses to those children for whom we had complete data (a strength), but our timing during implementation of a US federal privacy rule restricted our access to charts for about one third of children (a weakness).
Our analysis was based on a large sample of pre-school children, but a weakness is that many children were lost due to emigration and during follow up.
Finally, the use of standardized data unadjusted to Danish children is a weakness, but nevertheless necessary for comparing the results with other studies, as well as over time.
Whitney, 27, special effects artist and wild child with a weakness for straight girls.
In some respects, what we label as weakness in children is not a weakness at all -- it is simply that the child doesn't come into the classroom sharing the talent, passion, and learning style of the teacher.
The goal of this research was to examine the hypothesis that children with ADHD have a weakness in reproducing the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure in delayed recall condition.
Tomoyo loves her half-sister very much and takes care of her constantly since she has always had a weakness for children.
The population base and the very high attendance are strengths of the study, but it is a weakness that children from urban settings were not included.
There are many contexts in which we speak of a person or an institution as being tolerant: parents tolerate certain behavior of their children, a friend tolerates the weaknesses of another, a monarch tolerates dissent, a church tolerates homosexuality, a state tolerates a minority religion, a society tolerates deviant behavior.
And so here we have a substantial piece of the answer to the riddle with which we began: even if a person grows up to be rich and powerful, like O'Reilly and the Republicans listening to Romney about the irresponsible, dependent, slothful "47%," the old pattern of (parental) power beating down (a child's) weakness continues to foster the impulse to kick down.
