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Same-sex parenting (also known as rainbow families) [ 1] is the parenting of children by same-sex couples generally consisting of gays or lesbians who are often in civil partnerships, domestic partnerships, civil unions, or same-sex marriages . Opponents of same-sex parenting argue that it has an adverse impact on children.
The Human Development Report includes data for all 193 member states of the United Nations, [ 16] as well as Hong Kong SAR and the State of Palestine. However, the Human Development Index is not calculated for two UN member states: DPR Korea (North Korea) and Monaco, only some components of the index are calculated for these two countries.
While the precise abortion rate was not known, James Mohr's 1978 book Abortion in America documented multiple recorded estimates by 19th-century physicians, [37] which suggested that between around 15% and 35% of all pregnancies ended in abortion during that period. [59] This era also saw a marked shift in the people who were obtaining abortions.
The bill passed the House on January 18, but a cloture vote in the Senate failed 50–49, [14] with 60 votes required to end a Democratic-led filibuster, [15] at around 10:45 pm EST, shortly before the midnight expiration of the previous continuing resolution. Forty-five Republicans were joined by five Democrats in voting yes to the cloture ...
Patriarchy literally means "the rule of the father" [12] [7] and comes from the Greek πατριάρχης (patriarkhēs), [13] [14] "father or chief of a race", [15] which is a compound of πατριά (patria), "lineage, descent, family, fatherland" [16] (from πατήρ patēr, "father") [17] and ἀρχή (arkhē), "domination, authority ...
Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), also known as Zoomers, [1] [2] [3] is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha.Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years, with the generation generally being defined as people born from 1997 to 2012. [4]
The book (co-written with Charles Dudley Warner) satirized the promised "golden age" after the Civil War, portrayed as an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding of economic expansion. [7] In the 1920s, and 1930s, the metaphor "Gilded Age" began to be applied to a designated period in American history.
Down syndrome (United States) or Down's syndrome (United Kingdom and other English-speaking nations), also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. [ 3] It is usually associated with developmental delays, mild to moderate intellectual disability, and characteristic ...