Word: hardships
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Denying homosexuals the right to marry is also blatantly discriminatory and unfair. Bereft of the legal rights that come with marriage, gay couples sometimes face unfair financial hardship. Unlike married couples, they cannot share insurance policies, file joint tax returns or inherit pensions and Social Security benefits from spouses. When gay couples split up, children are not protected by courtroom proceedings that enable a judge to determine issues of custody. This leaves children vulnerable to needless emotional damage...
...That’s a real hardship and a real handicap,” he says...
...Korean aid worker who lives in the Changbai area estimates that about half of all North Korean women in China?some 95,000 women?arrived as bought brides. Here are the stories of how two such women?we've concealed their full identities for their protection?braved danger and hardship for a fresh start in China...
...Right now we would be doing this largely with faculty resources, and that’s not a hardship,” she says...
...clear that Saddam Hussein posed no threat to American national security, the tragedy of 345 and counting young lives lost becomes greater and greater. And it is that enormous tragedy that we should be focusing on, because the opinion of Jacques Chirac, the profits of Halliburton and the temporary hardship imposed on the Iraqi people—who no doubt will soon enjoy better lives than they ever could have under a brutal dictator—pale in comparison. I hope that future demonstrations keep this concern in mind. After all, if you were President Bush, what would keep...