Sentence examples for inadequate parenting from inspiring English sources

The problem is not home schooling, but inadequate parenting.

But post-1970s adoptions were usually the result of inadequate parenting, sometimes as a result of drug or alcohol addiction; and where adoptees from these families trace their genetic parents, they are more likely to uncover very complicated situations and may risk rejection or inadequate parenting a second time.

"This case starkly demonstrates the difficulty of responding effectively to families where parenting is characterised by low-level neglect which at times escalates into inadequate parenting with detrimental consequences for children's wellbeing," it says.

He keeps the liberals happy by pouring money into schools and day-care centers and after-school programs, and he satisfies the conservatives by directly taking on the problems of inadequate parenting and the cultural disadvantages of a ghetto home life.

And while it was more a dud than not, you couldn't help appreciate the ambition of The Childhood of a Leader, a sombre essay on French history from the actor-turned-director Brady Corbet, which essentially warned that inadequate parenting may result in angelic junior growing up to be a fascist dictator (played, in a supremely bizarre coda, by a bald, bearded Robert Pattinson).

Objective. Many teen parents and their babies are at a significant disadvantage because of poverty and inadequate parenting skills.

But what he finds in Michigan is neither a saint nor a devil, nor even a consistently inadequate parent.

Some contact with even the most awful, addicted or inadequate parent is usually better than none at all: it helps the children make sense of what has happened.

The head of Barnardo's, a children's charity, has called for many more children to be taken into care at birth to stop them being damaged beyond repair by inadequate parents.

Based on a novel by Tetsuo Takashima, "Midnight Eagle" addresses the strained, unequal military relationship between the United States and Japan, likened in various subplots to that of a distant, inept or otherwise inadequate parent and his dependent child.

They are all misfits of one sort or another, with inadequate parents; they may loathe the park, but it becomes their home, a ridiculous habitat tended by the strange pair who run the place (manic Bill Hader and a silent, abashed Kristen Wiig).