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So when we were designing NeoNurture, we paid a lot of attention to the people who are going to use this thing, for example, poor families, rural doctors, overloaded nurses, even repair technicians.
It places the names next to each other based on their relationships to one another: friends, families, coworkers.
These foreign fighters had left their
families
in the Gulf, the Levant and North Africa to join al Qaeda in Iraq.
How do we take their contributions to their jobs, their communities and their families, and convert that value into reputation capital?
But 60 years of research has demonstrated that separating children from their
families
and placing them in large institutions seriously harms their health and development, and this is particularly true for young babies.
It happens so naturally in most
families
that we don't even notice it.
And it's only when it goes wrong that we start to realize the importance of
families
to children.
I was asked to help the director of a large institution to help prevent the separation of children from their
families.
We find that if we get them out of institutions and into loving
families
early on, they recover their developmental delays, and go on to lead normal, happy lives.
It's also much cheaper to provide support to
families
than it is to provide institutions.
When you walk out of this room, you will be informed about vultures, but speak to your families, to your children, to your neighbors about vultures.
What? ("Our heartfelt condolences to the
families
who lost their dearests in terror attack in Bulgaria") And it's going both ways.
They don't move their
families
to the District.
So if you really care about strengthening families, you might want to talk to some liberal groups who are working on promoting educational equality, who are working on raising the minimum wage, who are working on finding ways to stop so many men from being sucked into the criminal justice system and taken out of the marriage market for their whole lives.
He contacted me immediately and said, whenever there is an opportunity to bring
families
inside, his doors are always open.
And so, it's so essential that we kind of put this culture back into our families, all
families.
And it is so important that all of you here today who are successful people, and I'm sure have wonderful
families
and children and grandchildren, it's not enough.
Over 85 percent of abusers are men, and domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships, in other words, in families, the last place we would want or expect to find violence, which is one reason domestic abuse is so confusing.
Together we can make our beds, our dinner tables and our
families
the safe and peaceful oases they should be.
For example, traditionally, the education of the very young children was seen as the business of families, and you would have cases where women were seen as neglecting their family responsibilities when they sent their children to kindergarten.
From this dataset you actually learn that retired European
families
are extremely patient with survey takers.
Combine that with a Demographic and Health Survey collected by USAID in developing countries in Africa, for example, which that survey actually can go so far as to directly measure the HIV status of
families
living in, for example, rural Nigeria.
Combine that with a world value survey, which measures the political opinions and, fortunately for me, the savings behaviors of millions of
families
in hundreds of countries around the world.
And what I'm going to do is form statistical matched pairs between
families
that are nearly identical on every dimension that I can measure, and then I'm going to explore whether or not the link between language and savings holds even after controlling for all of these levels.
Now effectively everything I'm going to tell you from now on is only comparing these basically nearly identical
families.
It's getting as close as possible to the thought experiment of finding two
families
both of whom live in Brussels who are identical on every single one of these dimensions, but one of whom speaks Flemish and one of whom speaks French; or two
families
that live in a rural district in Nigeria, one of whom speaks Hausa and one of whom speaks Igbo.
Futureless language speakers are 20 to 24 percent less likely to be smoking at any given point in time compared to identical families, and they're going to be 13 to 17 percent less likely to be obese by the time they retire, and they're going to report being 21 percent more likely to have used a condom in their last sexual encounter.
So here's the good news about
families.
We have blended families, adopted families, we have nuclear
families
living in separate houses and divorced
families
living in the same house.
Ellen Galinsky of the
Families
and Work Institute asked 1,000 children, "If you were granted one wish about your parents, what would it be?"
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