Many animals are pre-programmed with almost all the information they will ever need, yet a human child is almost a blank slate.
Their second child, born almost three years later in 1997, was 10 weeks premature after Carolyn developed life-threatening complications.
"I thought at one point he was going to cry, it was almost child like, he was squeezing his face as a child would to produce tears", she said.
In large parts of the world, better hygiene, nutrition and medicine have almost abolished child mortality, meaning the advantage of K over r is diminished.
And, without going to Scandinavian lengths, America could invest more in its children: it spends a lower share of its GDP on public child-care than almost any other rich country, and is the only rich country that refuses to provide mothers with paid maternity leave.
Crucially, almost half of all child victims are killed by a parent.
Second, Chinese parents will sacrifice almost anything for their child's education.
Should a country that cannot provide every child with a primary education cover almost 80% of the costs for tertiary students, who tend to come from wealthier backgrounds?
From where she stood, her elbows resting on the railing three floors above, he looked, despite his gray hair and beard, like a small child waiting for permission that he was almost certain would not be granted.
Almost one school-age child in four (23%) has never been to school, or dropped out of school before finishing the primary cycle in this region, where the absolute number of children denied access to school has climbed from 29 million in 2008 to 31 million in 2010.
We fear school shootings, even though a school is almost always the safest place a child can be.
And when the NSS does produce figures comparable to the census, they closely match it (for example, the NSS and census figures for the child sex ratio in 2001 and 2011 are almost identical).
Sending your child to this corner of the Caribbean will cost almost nineteen thousand pounds a year.
Cacciatore has been studying the emotional, social, cognitive, and economic impact of child death on individuals, families and society for almost 20 years.
The health of our women in particular is central to many of our development challenges, and is an issue to which I have been devoted since I almost lost my life delivering my fourth child.
Almost any computer game appears to boost a child's creativity, researchers at Michigan State University's Children and Technology Project reported in November.
This rule applies in almost all cases, regardless of whether your child is living at home, enrolled in school, or a married college graduate.
The most perplexing aspect of being a parent is that you can (almost) never discern when or why a child will follow your directives, as opposed to hear what you direct him to do and then do the exact opposite.
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For much of the 20th century, Mr Hirschfeld's drawings were there to be savoured in the Sunday edition of the New York Times, where one's appreciation of his gift for spearing a performer's physiognomy co-existed with a weekly hunt for the Ninas that is to say, the number of times Mr Hirschfeld had the name Nina embedded in almost every drawing, as a tribute to his only child.
The wait at the Apple store was almost as bad as being stuck having to take a sick child to an an emergency room.
Almost every country has endorsed these goals, which range from cutting child deaths by two-thirds to halving poverty malnutrition and achieving universal primary education.
You could almost hear each of them say, "That could be my child!"
He started as a child and he was able to keep it going all the way because of his almost supernatural talent.
In almost every case, she says, the parent interrupted an activity with the child to use a device.
Dylan's body was found almost four days later by a walker who noticed what he thought was a child "sleeping in the sand".
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The greatest accomplishment of almost any law enforcement investigator would be to be able to return a missing child to his or her parents.
But the long summer vacation acts like a mental eraser, with the average child reportedly forgetting about a month's-worth of instruction in many subjects and almost three times that in mathematics.
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