We learn in the beginning of the article that majority of the women in prison are mothers, and their needs are often neglected. ... Majority of women mothers take care of themselves and abide by the rules simply to get out of prison as soon as possible so that they can see their children. ... For instance, on page 262 the given quote is saying that men get in trouble for more harsh things, they try to escape, they don't wear the proper clothes that they are supposed to, they get in fights with one another, and are rowdy compared to the women who abide by the rules and are quite so that ...

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Bone argued with her until she cried because while he knew that hurting her isn't going to accomplish anything, he has a right to resent her for ignoring all of the pain her husband had been inflicting on him for the majority of his life. ...

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Institution of a Family The institution of family is a natural social system with unique properties of its own including roles, rules, a power structure, forms of communication, ways of negotiation and problem solving that allows varioous tasks to be performed effectively. ... The definition itself hasn't changed, but the effectiveness of the roles and rules has. ... Today the caretaker is still a female for the majority, but the position as defined by that sex as it once was. Rules like folkways, mores, and laws haven't necessarily decreased, but the structu...

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For the majority of the time, Miriam ignores both her husband and her children. ... Saul spends the majority of his time working in his study at home. ... Becoming too caught up in her spiritual awakening she starts ignoring her fathers rules and directions about which book she is suppose to look in, and which ones she is to stay away from, her disloyalty to her father was her use of Autonomy (Elkind, 1994). ... They focused the majority of their energy on Aaron who was smart enough to achiever the higher grades. ... Where as Aaron had focused all of his attention on his father, who gave A...

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Many researchers have found, however, that the majority of youths who runaway do so because of family problems (Kurtz, Kurtz & Jarvis, 1991 a & 1991 b; Mirkin, Raskin, & Antognini, 1984; vanHouten & Golemiewski, 1980). ... In virtually all studies reviewed, the majority of runaways came from broken homes. ... This could be related to the child being introduced into a stepfamily that which living with new adult results in new rules and consequences that the youth is expected to abide by (Hetherington, Stanley-Hagan, & Anderson, 1989). ... n The majorities are 13-15 yea...

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Thomas notes in his theory of "Definition of the Situation" that, "the child is always born into a group of people among whom all the general types of situation which may arise have already been defined and corresponding rules of conduct developed, and where he has not the slightest chance of making his definitions and following his wishes without interference. ... In order to understand the nature of context in a given situation that an individual is operating in, one must also understand the different rules that shape and define the environment of that context. ... Through her experiences w...

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The majority of people know how riding off in the sunset makes us feel a sense of happiness and contentment. ... Some of these themes include the struggle of growing up, and the hardships that come with following the rules and being the "good girl". ...

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Loosening Family Ties Everybody has seen the old T.V. shows from the fifties and sixties with the nuclear family (mom, dad, and two kids) spending the majority of their time together. ... Although the definition has not changed, alternative family styles, technology, and lenient rules cause a lack of interaction and the actual meaning of the word family has taken a hairpin turn for the worse. ...

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They expect strict obedience from daughters and often become enraged or very upset when rules are broken or their expectations are let down. ... She goes on to say that the majority of the people who live on the block aren't bad and would be more scared to drive through a more affluent neighborhood. ...

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Mothers can also influence a child's beliefs and actions in negative ways as well, like how mother of the other Wes Moore, Mary Moore showed little enforcement when it came to the rules against dealing with the her youngest boy. ... The role fathers' play in the book The Other Wes Moore may appear to be small as both of the Moore's fathers were not around for the majority or even basically the entirety of their lives. ...

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Generally the last born child in families tend to be more dependent upon others and spoiled because they have had their parents take care of them for the majority of their adolescence; there is no other younger child around for the parents to focus on or worry about. ... For example, Michael Grose, author of "Why Firstborns Rule the World and Last Borns Want to Change It." , summarizes recent finding on the topic in an interview. ...

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The subject of marriage gets more complicated, because of the majority of Orthodox Jews in Israel, and their power in the different authorities allows them to set marriage in the very strict rules of the bible. ...

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After 6 weeks of testimony and highly publicized trial, the judge presiding over the case ruled that the Sterns had custody of the child, and Mrs. ... While many states have adopted some sort of guidelines, the majority still have no concrete legislation either upholding or negating the contracts in surrogacy cases. ... Also, studies have shown that giving up children causes permanent damage to the majority of mothers. ...

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The roles are divided in such specific means in a majority of households in Eritrea. ... At the beginning , women were meant to just stay home, take care of kids, and be restricted to husband's rules. ...

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Also, data suggests that the inter-caste marriages are tolerated with little difficulty because although they break traditional rules requiring caste endogamy, they do not come into direct conflict with other concepts involving social stratification and family structure (Corwin 823). ... So, the majority is not getting divorced because of dowries, rather they are choosing their own spouses before they get married. ...

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A significant percentage of one parent families (with the majority of them being single mothers) have simply chosen never to marry. ... In an interesting journal article based on several studies done with one parent families, Paul Amato (2005) states that "Many of these deficits in parenting [less emotionally supportive, have fewer rules, inconsistent disciplining, less supervision and more conflict with children] presumably result from struggling to make ends meet with limited financial resources and trying to raise children without the help of the other biological parent" (Amato, 2...

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I believe in the golden rule, and i feel like love should be universal, not pointed towards close family and friends. ... A majority of her comments focus solely around how conflicted the world is, and how Obama is portrayed as the bad guy, making bad decisions for most of the time. ...

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It was in the 1920s that, for the first time, a majority of American families consisted of a breadwinner-husband, a homemaker wife, and children attending school. ... Family values are a part of our family of origin and are the rules that we go by and family values are different for every family. ...

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The majority of men & women must balance work with family responsibilities. ... The workplace must have rules, policies, practices & behaviors that are fair & do not disadvantage because they are apart of a particular group e.g. ...

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Prior to 1940, her country was named Siam and was a monarchy and military dictators ruled the country until the early 1990's. Thailand is rugged in terrain and approximately 50% of the country is referred to as "Thai's,"" as they are the majority race in Thailand. ...

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She realized that environment plays a key role in the type of person one grows up to be and wanted her son to be in less impoverished surroundings where the majority of kids didn't cut school and get involved in the drug game. ... Here rules and respect were a few of the most important values held, and this was a foreign concept to Wes. ...

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Changes affecting the family include the majority of families working harder than their parents did to maintain a modest standard of living. ... Only some states prohibit romantic relationships between non-biologically related members of a stepfamily, but the weakened incest taboo within the stepfamily makes the rules less clear. ...

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Philosophers often struggle to define justice – what it is, who controls it, and who suffers or benefits from it. Aeschylus presents controversy about defining justice between different gods in the Eumenides. He expresses this through the magical features of the ancient world and through a trial o...

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Bert Adams, in The American Family (1971), says that "the majority of families in the United States may or may not closely resemble one's own.... To briefly consider O'Neill‟s concept towards paternal relationships, one can notice that the fathers, in his works, represent the powerful old patriarchs who rule over the minds if not always the wills of their families, reflected by Ephraim Cabot in Desire, Abraham Mannon in Mourning, and James Tyrone in A Long Day's Journey, while the mothers are used by their men like their lands. ...

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