"It is possible that they could salami slice – if you did make a significant cut to housing benefit or child benefit or tax credits, and you taxed disability benefits and you restricted child contingent support to a certain number of children, and you froze benefits, you could probably get to something approaching the figure".
Such interactions presumably are reinforcing for parent and child; the child receives the undivided attention of the parent contingent on cooperative play, and the parent experiences cooperative and pleasant interactions with the child contingent on listening to the child and following the child's lead.
Compared with the European societies that offer paid maternity leave of up to a year (with benefits based on prior earnings) as well as child benefits (cash payments per child not contingent on poverty), America has not done much to spread the costs of motherhood.
The decision disappointed dozens of children, including a contingent of violin students at the Mount Carmel-Holy Roschoollementary school in East Harlem who had been studying all year for the auditions.
It goes without saying that overall success in child survival is contingent on a corresponding decline in neonatal mortality.
Because loss of appetite is often a symptom of child illness and because adequate food and fluid intake is critical to child survival, traditional feeding practices are not contingent on child hunger, and feeding is the "default" response to infant distress [ 56- 58].
Having some sort of trust in place is important; if you don't, and a minor child is named a contingent beneficiary on a retirement account, for instance, the financial institution will not pay the funds directly to the child, but instead will ask the courts to establish a conservatorship to oversee the child's finances.
There is a huge Orthodox contingent sending children to yeshivas.
Ms. Glick spoke last and was unswayed by the large contingent of children in sports jerseys.
Mr. Kinney is often credited with getting huge segments of previously nonreading children (the "reluctant reader" contingent) to become enthusiastic readers, no small feat in an app-centric, Wii-crazed world.
