The sad thing though is that a lot of young girls these days take advantage of that and look to abortion as a method of "birth control" (if you can even call it that). ... There are also those who suffer from certain medical disorders and cannot deliver a child without endangering the child and/or themselves. ... One after another describe the horrors of knowing that a child, their child, was being savagely ripped apart inside of their womb, then vacuumed out and left on the edge of a sink to die. ... I too now believe that all un-born children should be given a chance to live and if the mot...

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Harris would refer to as, her "Not OK child."" Harris explains these terms in his book, I'm OK You're OK, based on Eric Burne's ideas called Transactional Analysis. Harris explores in depth what he calls 'life positions'. ... The Adult in us prevents a hijack by unthinking obedience (Child), or ingrained habit or prejudice (Parent), leaving us a vestige of free will. John clearly hijacks his wife's "Child- and leaves her dependent and obedient. ...

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Harris would refer to as, her "Not OK child."" Harris explains these terms in his book, I'm OK You're OK, based on Eric Burne's ideas called Transactional Analysis. Harris explores in depth what he calls 'life positions'. ... The Adult in us prevents a hijack by unthinking obedience (Child), or ingrained habit or prejudice (Parent), leaving us a vestige of free will. John clearly hijacks his wife's "Child- and leaves her dependent and obedient. ...

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Why hamper a child's" well being by not giving that child all the nurturing it deserves. ... When the child is sick she must stay up all night. Where is the father of this child? ... Ellis effectively uses emotion to call her audience to action. ... Why should women be force to have a child that she does not want? ...

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He calls me the disappointment child. ... He never has called to check in to see how I am doing, instead he asks how are my grades and anything below a B is unacceptable. ... My mother raised a great child. ...

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Nora, as a symbol of women, is called a number of "pet" names by Torvald throughout the play. ... Torvald is extremely consistent about using the modifier "little" before the names he calls Nora. ... Throughout the play Torvald continues to call Nora a number of different names, all diminutive in nature. As the play goes on the names tend to become more degrading such as, "little rogue," "helpless little mortal," "child," "miserable creature," "a thoughtless woman," "blind, foolish woman," and "a heedless child." ... Is she a woman, a creature, or a small child?. ...

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It still amazes me that men, especially Physicians, were that ignorant to a woman's physical and mental needs back then. The narrator is obviously suffering from a form of depression, probably "Baby blues". John keeps her in this yellow wallpapered bedroom where the wallpaper expresses itself more t...

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Although their relation appears to be settled on the outside, Nora is treated like a child rather than a spouse. ... He calls her names and puts her down whenever she begins to voice her opinion. This can be seen when Nora's forgery is brought up in their final confrontation when he calls her disrespectful words like "featherbrained woman," "incompetent child," and "blind' (Ibsen, 810). ... Nora states "I've been your wife-doll here, just at home I was papa's doll child" (Ibsen, 817). ... Torvald displays dominance over Nora as he frequent...

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This was a refill to Tempest because she has always wanted to have a child but was never able to becuas eof her past. This was a double excitement for Tempest because she knew that the girl was about ot have a baby so she was able to experience the child birth as well as the child growing up. ... Befor the two girls left the club sGern asked Tempest if he could call her namShe unexpectedly falls head over heels in love with Geren, a man who brags constantly about his desire to have a house full of babies. ...

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When the time came to give birth, these women would secretly give birth and usually kill the baby, which was called "inficide". ... Besides the immoral conception of the child, the church argued that by doing this a woman was withholding spiritual rights to the child, specifically the sacrament of baptism. ... If a woman was found guilty of hiding her pregnancy and murdering her child, "in reparation, [she will] be punished by death and the last agony". ...

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The father blamed the mother because the child's skin color wasn't white. ... Racism was in its peak and it was a terrible accusation to be called a person of mixed blood. ... Racism is not very prevalent in society, but besides that, women are still blamed if a couple can't have a child or the gender a child turns out to be. ...

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It had called her to come and gaze on a mystery. ... Nanny's dream (Nanny was how Janie called her grandmother) was for Janie to attain a position of security in society, "high ground" as she put it. ... As the book shows the strong relationship between mother and child is important in the African-American community, and the conflict between Janie's idyllic view of marriage and Nanny's wis...

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(Steinbock, 28) Secondly, a woman has an obligation to take care of her sense of duty to her child, whether she's ready for that encumbrance, or not. ... It is an abuse of womanly authority to think that we have the power to end our own child's life. Abortions are just a means to a very painful, and very mortal, end of the so-called "pain" these "mothers" are put through, voluntarily, every day. ...

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"My little songbird," "my little squirrel," and even "my little featherbrain" - that is what Torvald calls his wife. He treats Nora as a child. ... I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's doll--child" (Ibsen). ...

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Sex segregation, also called the sexual division of labor, is the clustering or men and women into different jobs, and different types of jobs. ... Men are also seen as a more long-term, stable investment to an employer since mothers, not fathers, tend to leave work or need time off for family care; both planned, such as having a child, and unplanned, such as the illness of a child or other family member. ...

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Despite the so-called equality of the sexes in present popular culture, why does the awkwardness in saying "woman and man- or "wife and husband- still persist? ... As a child, a woman is surrounded by fishbowl silence (Line 2) and remained unnoticed by adults. ... And as she usually did when she was a child, the wife retreats into the refuge of her room, to once again wallow in the silence she was very much used to in her childhood years. ...

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They both become sorrowful when their first child died ten minutes after birth. ... Susan's reaction to losing the child is also one of sorrow but hers is obvious to Edgar and to others as evidenced by the private eye's investigation, because he found "only evidence of her grief, crying jags in public restrooms, aimless wandering in the children's departments of Nordstrom's and the Bon Marche, and visits to a therapist's I've never heard about."" ... But he can not call her because he would have to fix her car. ... Mariana does not show signs of sorrow in this st...

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In this story, Chopin's main character is a woman today's society would call a homemaker. ... While the father and child are away, a male visitor arrives unexpectedly. ... Both know the bad storm will keep the husband and child away until it clears. ... After the storm, the visitor departs for home, and Calixta's husband and child return home to find a happy mother with supper waiting. ...

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If you are playing with the child and you smell a fowl odor coming from the vicinity of the bottom, go get a diaper, diaper wipes, and change the child. Do not call for the woman in your life to come do it, or leave it for her to discover on her own. ... After you change the child, take the him or her out to play. ...

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Torvald calls her a "little extravagant person (3) and an "odd little soul" (4) the repetition of the word "little" shows that her role to him is little and insignificant. ... The Nurse gave up her own child to look after other people's in order to survive financially. What is more, she sees herself as lucky to get her lowly job, since she has committed the sin of having a child out of wedlock. In this time period if you were a woman who had a child out of wedlock you were looked down upon this is why she was so grateful to be given the job. ...

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In this story, Chopin's main character is a woman today's society would call a homemaker. ... While the father and child are away, a male visitor arrives unexpectedly. ... Both know the bad storm will keep the husband and child away until it clears. ... After the storm, the visitor departs for home, and Calixta's husband and child return home to find a happy mother with supper waiting. ...

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Out of all the English Language Theorists I choose Dale Spender because of her analysis on the way women and men talk, but first let me tell you a little about Dale Spender. As a young child she was called a bookworm, and if she wasn't reading she was writing, talking, or acting her way through sch...

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Most women were also responsible for housekeeping, child rearing and preparing the family meals while her husband was at work. ... Anguissola was a Renaissance painter who was called upon to paint portraits of Philip II of Spain. ... Women were in charge of the housekeeping and child rearing. ...

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It was a shame to bear a female child and in some cases they may kill her at birth because she would be too much of a burden. ... "Mothers bound the feet of their daughters at around 5 years of age and gradually decreased the size of the child's foot over a period of months. The feet were called lotus of gold if they were 3 inches (about 7.5 centimeters) long, silver if they were 4 inches (about 10 centimeters) long or iron if they were more than 4 inches long." ...

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He treats her as a child at times, plus doesn't really listen to her. ... She is not even allowed to hold her child because it causes too much intellectual stimulation. ... The narrator calls the paper "dead paper" because she knows that she will be the only one reading her own notes. ...

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