Word: parented
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Before the salvation of marriage can progress, society requires an encompassing consensus that there is a problem. Currently, evolving such a consensus is being waylaid by an ideological word game. As long as the term family is used to cover both the "real" family and its antithesis -- the single-parent version -- the question of whether a society can do without families is hopelessly obfuscated. Moreover, a challenging thesis is hidden: the thesis that it does not matter which social arrangements adults devise to bring up children. It is implied (rather than demonstrated) by calling single- parent households "families" that...
Here science chimes in, its voice rising. Over the past years, a growing body of evidence shows that children who grow up under the tutelage of people other than their natural parents are more likely to fail in school, have social difficulties and get arrested. To a large extent, their failings reflect the fact that single parents are economically disadvantaged as compared with two-parent families. However, this difference is also affected by the dismemberment of the family. It costs more to run two households than...
...Florida judge ruled that Kimberly Mays could end all contact with her biological parents, Regina and Ernest Twigg. Kimberly was accidentally switched at birth with another girl whom the Twiggs discovered was not their daughter after she died of a congenital heart defect five years ago. The judge ruled that the Twiggs have "no legal interest in or rights to Kimberly Mays," while deeming Robert Mays, who has raised the girl, to be her "psychological parent...
APOE, which is located on chromosome 19, can appear in the form of allele APOE-2, APOE-3 or APOE-4. The study's subjects, who were taken from 42 families with a history of late-onset Alzheimer's had one APOE-4 allele from each parent. The study found them eight times as likely to develop Alzheimer...
...appalled and disgusted at what I read," the parent of the white student wrote...