FAMILY AND SOCIETY 1. ... People believed that men had certain characteristics that enabled them to be better outside the home, for the purpose of supporting his family. ... Women now felt they did not need support from the man, because of career opportunities out there. ... The family is bringing in more money to support it, but is also taking away from the raising of the children. ... Husbands working to support his family, the wives home taking care of the children. ...

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After all the male of the family had the education, and responsibility to look after the women of the family. ... On the other hand, if the children came from a poor family, where their parents could not support them , the state could remove the child, or children, from their family and contract them (by agreement) as an indentured servant. ... When children were placed in other families, they were cared for as members of that family. ... Like a rock foundation, the women of society supported the revolution and emerged stronger for it. They endured the loss of family and kin, watched huma...

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Today there are many ways in which you may classify a family unit, and more are trying to get a broader definition of family to be the framework for public policy pertaining to family. ... In past the extended family has been a form of primary socialization, a source of free daycare, and a crucial form of social support structure. ... As families and society develops new definitions for family they must have government follow suit. ... There must be allowable both in mainstream society and in political venues a idea of family being a support structure that can be maintained with many different...

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There is also an increase in the amount of families whose income is not enough to sufficiently support them. ... There is currently now a five year limit on the amount of time a family can receive money from this organization, because Congress is trying to emphasize putting the recipients to work at jobs with which they can then support themselves. ... One finding was that the aid to families with dependant families increases significantly over 30 years. ... Changes in the federal welfare rules and different proposals to stop federal subsidy levels for 2003 are expected to reduce the number of...

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If the adults aren't able to support their family, it comes to the point where children have to drop out of activities in school to work because the parents can't pay for them. ... This shows that the individuals working their minimum wage jobs aren't earning enough income to live, or support their families. ... With all of the expenses of living, and supporting family, raising the minimum wage isn't the ultimate solution if it doesn't keep pace with inflation. ... The average family household income in 2012 was $64,053. ... There are resources for financial aid, emoti...

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First I would like to look at the supporting views to the school voucher program. ... "Vouchers will give families of all income levels the option to choose which school they want their children to attend, public or private, religious or secular... The final, but real important, issue in the supporting view of the programs would be that school vouchers strengthens inner-city communities. ... Schools are the second most important institution, to me, besides the family. ... As a matter of fact, they feel that people who have worked hard to provide their families with a nice living and have ea...

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Welfare is the provision of a minimal level of well-being and social support for all citizens, sometimes referred to as public aid. ... If the family makes more than they are not eligible to receive the benefits (USDA).The minimum wage in the state of Oregon is $9.25/hour. ... This is enough to support and buy the necessary things to keep a household alive and healthy. ... In turn they are unable to work and need other resources to feed their families. ... It is unfair to American citizens that their hard work and their taxes go to illegal immigrants to support and feed their families. ...

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The government defines a family of four as being poor if they generate a yearly income of $15,569 or less, although the average improvised family's income was only around $10,000 in 1995. ... The Chicago coalition for the homeless states that a person must be employed full time and earn more than $8.29 per hour in order to exceed the federal poverty level for a family of four. ... These people are less likely to be able to obtain support such as treatment, case management and the help that is necessary to find and maintain permanent housing. ... New York University did a study that concl...

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Due to the soil lacking the minerals that is needed to grow crops, people have a hard producing enough to feed their families and to still have enough left over to sell and gain income for their families. ... In Angola and Afghanistan, where contraception usage is the lowest, less then 10 percent of couples use effective family planning. ... In order to minimize families, 91 percent of married women use some form of birth control. ... Funding for family planning had been a major priority during this period; the government itself had been the biggest contributor. ... The government wanted women...

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The government defines a family of four as being poor if they generate a yearly income of $15,569 or less, although the average improvised families income was only around $10,000 in 1995. ... These people are less likely to be able to obtain support such as treatment, case management and the help that is necessary to find and maintain permanent housing. ... At which point the father then grabs his daughter by her hand and says to his family, dont even look at him, and then rushes them away. ... New York University did a study that concluded that low-income housing projects ar...

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The government defines a family of four as being poor if they generate a yearly income of $15,569 or less, although the average improvised families income was only around $10,000 in 1995. ... These people are less likely to be able to obtain support such as treatment, case management and the help that is necessary to find and maintain permanent housing. ... At which point the father then grabs his daughter by her hand and says to his family, dont even look at him, and then rushes them away. ... New York University did a study that concluded that low-income housing projects ar...

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Adults remember" how tough it when they were in school," but growing evidence supports the public's position that school, while getting easier, ignores the increasing knowledge base needed to compete in a high tech marketplace. ... Milwaukee allowed private schools to compete for students under an experimental program: students from low-income families were given tuition at private schools that participated in the program (chira 1992;Kelly 1993;Mclarin1995). ... A bill in congress in 1997 called for federal funds to be used for vouchers given to low-income families for tuition at private...

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Since the illiteracy rate was high, the government's support enabled the Arab women to join schools and then encourage them to get a better job. ... Arab Women in family Arab families are now encouraging their daughters to complete their education and pursue careers after the awareness spread by the Government in 1970's. Many families have currently bend their cultural rules and they allow the female of their family work at the expense that they should either wear an abaya or wear clothes that does not reveal their skin or figure along a proper head scarf. ... Arab women now atten...

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What most people don't realize is that the some of the clothing they wear was made by children working in hazardous conditions who are forced to work to support their families. ... Many families in India have little choice but to send their children to work. The children help their families live and eat with the wages they bring in. ... Many families in India are unable to send their children to school due to their lack of money so they send their children off to work to help support the family. ... After a month passed the family expected their son to arrive home, but he did not. ...

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One commercial states that by buying drugs, a person helped to massacre an entire family in Columbia. ... Because the government certainly and obviously can't control drug use in America, their aim is to stop it at the source at the expense of the Columbian people who not only make their livelihood off of the Coca plant (which their government supports) but cherish it's sacred source and healing powers as well. ... Along with a lower monthly income, about 10,000 rural residents may be displaced because of the Coca eradication.# As well as destroying Coca plants in Columbia, Presid...

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American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Parents" June 1999 Again, the evidence that supports this is overwhelming, supported by many other organizations too. ... Graff, supporting greater parental rights for homosexuals. ... A 2001 survey shows college freshmen strongly supported our freedom to marry as well: My favourite poll, however, came in a New York magazine early in 2001. It reported that 58% of non-gay New Yorkers support civil marriage for gay people, and 92% of gay people agree." ... They should be allowed to be married there is no strong evi...

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If you are left-winged, you may support The Liberal Party of Canada, The Green Party and The NDP party. ... Liberals tend to go with a larger government, higher taxes, and support programs, such as welfare and healthcare. ... In your own family?"" ... " For the disarmament of guns would leave families defenceless. ... We will continue protecting the interests of families across this country... ".When people take drugs they do not think correctly, so it can cause some harm to family and friends physically and emotionally! ...

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Their pregnancy would be am embarrassment and disgrace to the family. Some families would suggest to the pregnant woman about disowning her, throwing her out of the house, and cutting off family communications and wealth. ... He has the choice of staying and supporting the pregnant woman, or the choice of leaving her and the development of a new life. ... When a family has a newborn, the parents have great hopes and dreams for their baby. ... Some children never get the chance of even becoming a part of a family. ...

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Their pregnancy would be am embarrassment and disgrace to the family. Some families would suggest to the pregnant woman about disowning her, throwing her out of the house, and cutting off family communications and wealth. ... He has the choice of staying and supporting the pregnant woman, or the choice of leaving her and the development of a new life. ... When a family has a newborn, the parents have great hopes and dreams for their baby. ... Some children never get the chance of even becoming a part of a family. ...

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Katniss has had to become a provider for her family as a teenager because her father died while working in the coal mines. Her family is impoverished and because of this Katniss at a young age has to break the law just to get food for her family climbing over the electric fence that surrounds her district 12 to hunt. ... Katniss must sneak out of her district illegally to hunt food for her family because without it they would starve. ... Rue as an 12 year old child is murdered in the games with her whole district, and family watching as she dies. ... She is the main character and a great figur...

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A man supports his family with a job that he has been working at for the past 20 years and has been paying unemployment insurance since he started. ... When he loses employment, he will at least have the time to find a position with security and the financial attributes that is most fitting to him and his family, rather then applying for the first employment opportunity he sees because there has been no source of income coming into the household. ... There aren't many more stressful predicaments in a family then losing a job. ...

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Capital cases are long and expensive, and there are arguments in support and against capital punishment as a deterrent. ... Supporters of the death penalty ask the question, "Why should I have to support a murderer for the rest of the murderer's natural existence? ... The common arguments in support of the death penalty are overflowing with holes. ... It relieved the pain of the victim's family. ... Victims of the loss of a loved do not need to reduce themselves to the evil level of the murderer, but those families need to replace their resentment and hate towards the criminal wit...

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This has become a debate and struggle between those who support and those who fight unschooling. People who are supporting unschooling believe in all the benefits that it shares; higher test scores, closer relationship with your children and the ability to bring religion into the classroom. ... They provide electronic books and textbooks, while also providing a Christian education and support group for the parents (The Jubilee Academy 2001). ... Pink furthers his opinion by citing the Family Unschoolers Network as a resource for unschoolers. ...

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Women tend to be generalized as being worried about issues such as health care, education, welfare reform, abortion, family values, gun control, and drug coverage. ... Most recently these have included: favoring amore activist role for government, opposing US Military intervention in other countries, support for programs to guarantee health care and meet basic human needs, support restrictions on firearms, and support affirmative action in order to achieve racial equality. ... The young women who are most interested in running are defined by interrelated demographics, such as middle-class or...

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Every morning before the hard working citizens of the United States of America get into their over priced vehicles, filled with over priced gasoline, to go to their jobs all day in order to support themselves and their families, they usually turn on the television or open up their morning newspaper in order to find out the happenings of their community, country, and the world. ... "From the political angle, for a nation to remain strong, it historically has needed the support of its people" (Anup Shah). ... "Therefore, logically, politics will be dominated by the rich and powerful -- in fac...

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