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. ...

• Word Count: 3494
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 2758
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 2511
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 2566
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 2577
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 9352
• Approx Pages: 37
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School