From same-sex guardians to single parents and broken families, they are all trying to break their stereotype and build their families through the same roller-coaster we all call life. ... It is strongly believed by many that raising a child is strictly between a man and woman. ... It's not a matter of the sexual orientation of a child's parents, it's a matter of the quality of parenting that they are exposed to. ... What isn't realized in this situation is that those effects on children can happen to any child that comes from any family. ... When a child is exposed to a b...

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Similarly, the Ghana NGO Coalition on the Rights of the Child states that even though such laws exist, they are not enforced. ... They have to go by what their section of society calls "customs and norms" or else they will be seen as rude and rebellious, not showing respect to their parents and older family members, and not honoring the wishes of their tribe. ... Females are the ones who suffer majority of the problems that arranged marriages brew up; for example, a survey was conducted in...

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Once women have become finically stable enough she may feel that she can live a single life and even raise a child on her own, once again much like the USA. ... The child can be emotionally scared when trying to understand why his/her parents cannot get along and can even be worse for the child if split from a sibling to live with one parent (Family Life in Germany). ... The German child can either attend a public or a private school that charges tuition in order to attend. The first step into educating the child is to be sent to kindergarten, in which there they are not part of the officia...

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It is where a family would consider arranging their child to be married with another household that would eventually give benefits towards the families. Poor families usually would consider this idea because there is a chance where the child might be arranged with a richer family, this would means marrying for money therefore it would be better for poorer families to have more childrens. It is the inhumane act of giving their child away like an object and benefiting them in the process. Another benefits that a family could get by arranging their child into a marriage is by upgrading the class ...

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The Frau calls him "The Father", which at once distances him from being within the family but instead held above it and above the wife. ... This image is reminiscent of a male bird blowing out his chest in a mating call, perhaps a comment on the overblown, inflated ego of Herr Brechenmacher. ... This interlocks with the ideas generally held by men at the turn of the century of therapeutic rape; that is, women were not supposed to desire men, (the bride, Theresa, is held up as a bad example because she dared give herself to a man and has a dirty-looking child at her wedding as a reminder of h...

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This practice of marriage was called marrying abroad. ... Because mothers lived with and nurtured their children in a hut separate from their husbands, the mother-child relationship usually had more depth and emotional content than either the father-child or the husband-wife relationship. ... Obviously as stated above by White, the mother/child relationship follows the form of a matriarchal family. ... For instance in today's society a lot of teenage girls in a patriarchal family are stereotyped or called, "daddy's girl," where the father looks after and makes sure the daughter do...

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Parents can unwittingly pass stress on to the child by fighting in front of them, yelling, making child choose between them, putting child in the middle of conflicts, or belittling the other parent. ... Regardless of who calls the marriage off, women are almost always far worse financially in divorce. ...

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While it is true that some verses of the Koran do call for men and women to control the way they present themselves to each other in order to encourage self-restraint, there is no actual requirement for women to cover their faces. ... Child marriages were also commonplace among the Hindu in an effort to rid the family of their "burden," and girls were sometimes married off as young as eight years old, always to men more than twice their age. ... After becoming married, the wife also became required to observe an ancient custom called "Purdah," meaning that she had to cover her face from all ...

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No matter where we go, African-Americans know that someone is just a phone call away; we always have someone to look out for us. 2. ... The Black church is more than a place for worship, it is a place where people go to socialize, counsel or get counseling; it is a place where children go after school until their parents get off of work; it is a place where a teenage mother can receive the love and support she needs and deserves, and a place where her child will be loved as a new life God has brought into the world, rather than as an illegitimate child (which is how many children born out o...

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Calegero, "C" was what his friends called him, was different from everyone else and was in conflict with himself and his friends because he liked a girl that was African American. ... As a young adult, she fell in love with her then boyfriend who was Cuban, and they conceived a child together. ... Not only was she grieving for the loss of her boyfriend, but was heartbroken over the fact that her child will never know who his father is. ... During an interview she explained to me that, "They didn't even invite us to the funeral even though he, and I shared a child together! ...

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The rights for a spouse to have medical leave, bereavement, custody of a child, tax breaks, pension etc. is currently denied to homosexual couples without the ability to marry, and that is highly unfair. ... A heterosexual couple that is legally recognized has the right to involve it's spouse and children into its health plan, adopt a child, have bereavement leave when a spouse dies, and even receive tax breaks for no other reason that just being legally recognized. Without the legal right to marry, same-sex couples do not have rights like family health coverage, medical and bereavement l...

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Lino's rescue, however, entailed driving Clerici to his home, attempting to sodomize the child, and ultimately being shot by a panicked Clerici. Throughout "The Conformist," Clerici repeatedly tried to repress this obscure incident by denouncing homosexuality, including when he saw Lino at the film's conclusion and called him out publically for both attempted molestation and the murders of Clerici's anti-Fascist target, Professor Luca Quadri, and Quadri's wife, Anna. The bullies from whom Lino rescued Clerici, though, were further proof of the innormalcy to which ...

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These individual are now considered our kin which is simply someone's child, but also these link one's spouse and as our dependence. ... In order to be of such kin, is an individual who have taken guardianship of a relative child who is bond by a blood line but are not the genetic parents of these children. ... The idea around these instances has called upon ownership towards these children, for an example, the biological parents cannot come and take the children without the required steps followed by the authority. ... Challenged by a condition which equally parent–child relat...

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"Child development is skewed, scarred or retarded when a father or mother is absent in the household" (Fein). ... To halt this trend the law should clearly and unequivocally convey the message that the best interest of a child demand both a mother and a father. ... "When a child grows up feeling emotionally cut off from his or her same-sex parent, it interrupts this process. If the distance continues, the process never resumes, leaving a child feeling rejected, empty, and insecure as a boy or girl" (Olson p.13). ...

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For example, people in the Trobriand Islands were asked "Who is a child's father?" ... One fascinating example discussed the mating patterns of a little fist called a stickleback. ... The study of non-human bisexual animals allows anthropologists to realize that the human beings are extraordinary, and it also calls for a complex explanation of how the institution of marriage evolved. ...

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As people are constantly pushed to their limits on the daily basis and the today's world is revolving at ever increasing pace people start to dispute the basic principles of human societies. Most recently the importance of marriage has been widely discussed. Many people believe that the marriage is ...

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1. Today, the Roman Catholic Church believes that marriage is a sacrament, a "sacred sign, instituted by Christ to give grace" (Bernard Cooke). Yet, the social practice of marriage or union between people was not always deemed a sacrament. Discuss the history and development of the belief that marri...

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When a child is hurt on a school trip, and the biological parent is unavailable, the co-parent does not want to have to convince a school-teacher that the relationship is valid. ... In a married relationship, these matters are rarely called into question, and the validity of the relationship can be easily demonstrated if necessary through production of the marriage certificate. ...

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"Modernity exists in the form of desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure. ... In the worst such cases, brides were sometimes murdered by burning in so-called mysterious kitchen fires. ... Although previously mentioned that it was the shortcomings of the dowry system that contributed to the violence inflicted on my grandmother and mother, I was told by my mother that what is now called PTSD affecting my grandfather and father was the other major contributing factor. ... Conse...

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In the worst such cases, brides were sometimes murdered by burning in so-called mysterious kitchen fires. ... Although previously mentioned that it was the shortcomings of the dowry system that contributed to the violence inflicted on my grandmother and mother, I was told by my mother that what is now called PTSD affecting my grandfather and father was the other major contributing factor. ... Consequently, I was able to break away from the cycle of violence which I witnessed constantly while growing up as a young child in my family, and was powerless to do anything about until I received trea...

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The third and final effect, as some may call it, is the indirect selection. ... If a women has kids, that allows the woman to concentrate on that child and her family, so she has a less likely chance of smoking, drinking or doing drugs heavily. ...

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Since the majority of traditional marriages are based on love and eventually child-bearing, gay marriages are merely about two individuals expressing love and support to each other. ... The name of the new marriage law is called the Marriage Equality Act. ...

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Men who witness abuse while growing up as a child, who have been unemployed, who are married in a common law relationship, and those who have a low family income are more likely to adapt a patriarchal ideology which in turn is more likely to lead to an abusive male partner. ... Women were asked whether or not their husbands: 1. were jealous and did not want them to talk to other men; 2. tried to limit their contact with family and friends; 3. insisted on knowing who they were with and where they were at all times; 4. called them names to degrade them or make them feel bad; and 5. prevented the...

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