But are signs effective at reminding distracted parents to keep a close watch on their children?
Jolie and Pitt are not, relatively speaking, spending an outsize amount on their children.
Famous people, who are often intensely driven workaholics, are typically not focused on their children.
The community's income-managed women, she reckons, have more money to spend on their children's welfare.
Herders rely on their children's labour, so many feel that time spent leafing through books is wasted.
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Instead, Mr. Sicart advises that parents sell their property outright rather than forcing that decision on their children.
That is 1, 700 more dollars for this good family to spend on their children and on their dreams.
Called ChildID, the app lets parents gather information on their children, including recent photos, identifying marks and other physical identifiers.
Among other things it will be interviewing parents at length about the extent to which they put pressure on their children.
Three fifths of Asians say American parents don't put enough pressure on their children to succeed in school, the survey found.
But Dr. Scott Haltzman, a clinical psychiatrist and an assistant professor at Brown University, says it's important that mothers focus on their children.
Any investment in jobs and skills for parents that helps them be positive role models will have a massive impact on their children.
They spoke of demands on their children, from excessive amounts of homework, exams and the fact that their off-spring were becoming more demanding.
Studies show that obese and overweight parents have a strong influence on their children, generating a second-hand obesity and all of its health problems.
Parents are concerned about the effect of sudden violent or sex scenes on their children, said Mr Ketteringham, which lends support to the concept of "labels".
Perhaps feeling guilty about neglect of their families, perhaps remembering their own indulged childhoods, today's parents are too soft on their children, say some social critics.
Western parents are usually horrified at the pressure the tiger mums exert on their children to get better grades or become concert violinists, preferably before puberty.
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Homeowners need to recognize that when they vote for a local bond deal or tax rate increase, the resulting financial debt burden may ultimately fall on their children.
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Don Shenker, Chief Executive of Alcohol Concern, said the report confirms that from the beginning of a child's life parents have a strong influence on their children's future drinking patterns.
Hyatt Hotels committed to meeting certain nutritional standards on their children's menus and to reducing calories, sodium, and added sugar by at least 10% across all their food menus by 2016.
As long as parents of my generation keep pushing the films on their children, Lucas will continue to rake it in, even if he never makes a film as popular as Star Wars again.
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He also noted that "such parents cannot put their names on their children's birth certificates, they cannot make decisions about medical treatment for their children until they have a formal parental order in place".
Groups of parents like this one in Massachusetts -- parents shocked and even disgusted at how little money is being spent on their children's diseases -- are popping up in various parts of the country.
The government has set up a website app to help separating parents work together to minimise the impact of their break up on their children and avoid the courts - ' Sorting Out Separation' - has already been visited by 40, 000 parents.
What is truly revolutionary about Crawford is the proposed remedy: Parents of kids attending failing schools would be permitted to take the pro rata share of public money spent on their children and use it to pay for them to attend other schools, public or private.
Schools or individuals looking for details on having their children attend can apply through their Children in Need project page on the website before the end of this week.
But even if the paper's argument is correct, it ignores the basic fact that so many people have become so good at passing their educational privileges on to their children.
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