By the time Lilian had been graduated from public school, her parents were doing quite well.

It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.

Amy had to be safe, had to come back to them -- if only to reap that share of life's experiences that were her due, if only to give her parents another chance to do better by her.

Their two boys were `` well adjusted '' and, like their parents, always did the right thing at the right time and damn the consequences.

and they censured parents who `` never disciplined and were too permissive '' or who `` never explained how easy it was to get pregnant ''.

`` -- had enough brains to call ya up so as ya could do sompin about it when the parents -- I coulda let her go go '' -- His eyes were lowered, so he couldn't have seen the narrow, pointed face of his companion suddenly writhe with fury ; ;

It was one thing to awaken outside a restaurant where your parents were eating and quite another to awaken in a strange garage and know your parents had gone on home without you.

Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian.

His parents were working-class Rusyn emigrants from Mikó ( now called Miková ), located in today ’ s northeastern Slovakia, part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

His parents were Joseph Chatfield Alcott and Anna Alcott ( née Bronson ).

His parents were Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier.

Certainly his parents, who had worn the purple, were slain by it.

According to Porphyry, the parents of Ammonius were Christians, but upon learning Greek philosophy, Ammonius rejected his parents ' religion for paganism.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

We are not certain that the word " democracy " was extant when systems that came to be called democratic were first instituted, but around 460 BC an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him ' Democrates ', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty ; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.

He believed the poor possessed an advantage over the wealthy due to their receiving more attention from their parents, and were taught better work ethics.

* No foreigner, even if naturalised ( unless they were born of English parents ), shall be allowed to be a Privy Councillor or a member of either House of Parliament, or hold " any office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements or hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any other or others in trust for him.

His parents were Abdallah's son Muhammad and Muzna ( or Muzayna ), a Christian concubine.

His parents were Mahmud II and Valide Sultan Pertevniyal (" Partav-Nihal ").

Hoshiar and Ibrahim were the parents of Isma ' il Pasha.

To address the concerns of parents that home computers were a better investment than consoles, the system was designed to be upgraded to a full-fledged home computer.

Their experience is quite in contrast with that of children of upper- and upper-middle-class native-born parents, who are more likely to regard education as good for its own sake and to discount the vocational emphases in the curriculum.

The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

In a number of nationally publicized cases in the early 1990s, prosecutors charged parents belonging to the Christian Science church with murder or manslaughter after their children died of likely curable ailments without being medically treated.

Ethologist Dr. Valerius Geist of the University of Calgary, Alberta wrote that Fenrir's maiming and ultimate killing of Odin, who had previously nurtured him, was likely based on true experiences of wolf-behaviour, seeing as wolves are genetically encoded to rise up the pack hierarchy and have on occasion been recorded to rebel against and kill their parents.

This is especially likely to occur in an individual whose parents were siblings or other close relatives.

Cooks ' Cottage, his parents ' last home, which he is likely to have visited, is now in Melbourne, having been moved from England and reassembled, brick by brick, in 1934.

These two forms reflect different resource situations: polyandry with shared parental care is more likely in very difficult environments, where the efforts of more than two parents are needed to give a reasonable chance of rearing young successfully.

In the dialect of Holland, it is, with a voiceless V. Van Gogh grew up in Brabant ( although his parents were not born there ), and used Brabant dialect in his writing ; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent:, with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh.

Harris also states that developing long-term personality characteristics away from the home environment would be evolutionarily beneficial because future success is more likely to depend on interactions with peers than interactions with parents and siblings.

As with most mammal hybrids, the less closely related the parents, the more likely the offspring will be sterile.

This number was thought to be the most likely to foster a local feeling of identification: for merchants to get to know their customers, ministers their memberships, and teachers their pupils and parents.

The approach to childhood nutrition was criticized by a number of experts, including his co-author, Dr. Steven J. Parker, as too extreme and likely to result in nutritional deficiencies unless it is very carefully planned and executed, something that would be difficult for working parents.

One study suggested that adults ( i. e. parents ) suffering from dissociative symptoms related to post-traumatic stress disorder may be more likely to expose their children to violent programs and video games ; links between these issues were also related to poverty.

Later on, Bud's parents drive him to the courthouse, and Carl tells him he did right in saving the airline, although he will most likely still go to prison.

Her parents were likely brother and sister and hence she had only one set of grandparents.

For this to happen, it is overwhelmingly likely that both of his parents possessed the same eye colour.

* The particular convictions that the believer holds, while having nothing to do with evidence, are likely to resemble those of the believer's parents.

If an egg fails to hatch or the chick dies early, the parents will likely lay another egg the following year.

Instead of one of his parents, the German version credits the lumberjack's " Uncle Walter " as inspiring his passion for cross-dressing ; this change was likely done simply for a rhyme with " Büstenhalter ", the German translation for " bra ", which caps the phrase preceding the " I wish I'd been a girlie ..." line.

Though Leif's birthplace is not accounted for in the sagas, it is likely he was born in Iceland, where his parents met — probably somewhere in Breiðafjörður, and possibly at the farm Haukadal where Thjodhild's family is said to have been based.

The argument was twofold ; that parents likely to give birth to ' defective ' children should not allow it, and that healthy children borne to ' defective ' parents would be doomed to an ' undesirable environment '.

While parenting is sometimes held as the necessary path of adulthood, studies are actually mixed as to whether parents are more likely to report being happier than non-parents.

In addition, height is not entirely genetically determined, but also subject to numerous random environmental influences during development, which make offspring of exceptional parents even more likely to be closer to the average than their parents.