District education officials travelled to a meeting in Katine in an attempt to renew the parents' commitment.
Although he grew up in a wealthy family – think the Timpson shoe-repair chain – the minister was grounded from a young age by his parents' commitment to fostering.
This, he continued, was his greatest, perhaps his only, regret: that his children, and the children of his comrades, had suffered for their parents' commitment.
Like Mr. Akulov, many students said they learned about the depth of his parents' commitment to provide a better life for their children.
As the trend away from marriage continues, more and more children are born into families where the parents' commitment to one another is unclear or ambiguous: By side-stepping the big decision to commit in public to each other, far too many parents lack the stability required to weather the various storms that life and child-raising in particular throws up".
The one-child policy, a series of family planning and population control policies introduced from 1978 onwards, has likewise heightened parents' commitment to the care of their single child, entailed a growing recognition of daughters as source of support in old age, and reinforced the dedication of many young Chinese to support their elderly parents.
Parents' commitment to their daughter's education may also be reflected in other ways.
My parents commitment to being a part of their grandchildren's lives was such that they traveled to locations all over the world to be with them and us.
Retaining parents' commitment to the project has been through regular communication by newsletters, children's birthday cards, and other reminder post-cards distributed by mail or in-person via home visits.
All measures are completed by children and by one parent: fear of hypoglycaemia; 20 expectations a specially developed measure based on the results of our pilot study to determine the child and parents' commitment, enthusiasm and expectations about the course outcomes; self-efficacy for diabetes; 21 QOL generic 22 and diabetes specific.
