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Standing out among these atrocities was fourteen-year-old Nicholas Fomby-Davis, who, while playing in the street, was pulled off his scooter, held down, and shot to death.
Scott Harshbarger: Yes We Can Reduce Urban Violence (Part I) Scott Harshbarger 2010
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The more transitions children go through in their living situation, the more likely they are to act out, Johns Hopkins sociologists Paula Fomby and Andrew Cherlin report.
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In their paper, "Family Instability and Child Well - Being," published in the April issue of the American Sociological Review, Fomby and Cherlin note that with each breakup, divorce, remarriage or new cohabitation, there is a period of adjustment as parents, partners, and children establish their places in a new family setting.
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"Children are affected by disruption and changes in family structure as well as by the type of family structures they experience," said Fomby, an associate research scientist in the Sociology Department at Johns Hopkins.
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"Family instability does appear to have a causal role in determining whether white children exhibit more behavior problems," Fomby said.
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Footnote for those interested in the bottom line: Fomby and Vogelsang used Vogelsang's test on a bunch of global and hemispheric temperature series and concluded, in amore readable paper, that there was a significant warming trend: Fomby, T and T.
USCCSP: Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere « Climate Audit 2006
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Fomby and an accomplice, 35-year-old William M. Fomby, attempted to rob a victim and carjack his vehicle at a gas station.
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Fomby, 18, without incident Tuesday in the Frogtown neighborhood, said agency spokesman Thomas Volk.
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Fomby and an accomplice, 35-year-old William M. Fomby, attempted to rob a victim and carjack his vehicle at a gas station.
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Fomby, 18, without incident Tuesday in the Frogtown neighborhood, said agency spokesman Thomas Volk.
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