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Comparative rates of homicides involving family members between 1980 and 2008. Killing by a spouse or ex-spouse exceeds the rate of all other categories. In proportion to the total number of family homicides, killing by spouses and ex-spouses fell from 52% to 37% during this period. Meanwhile, murder of the children went up 57%. [60]
Rep. Mark Pocan's spouse Philip Frank became the first same-sex spouse of a federal lawmaker to officially receive a House Spouse ID. [212] [213] In 2009, Marlon Reis, the spouse of Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), was issued a congressional spouse ID, but later card services told him that he had been given the designation accidentally. [213]
This may disproportionately affect same-sex couples, given that typically only one spouse is biologically related to the child. [44] In October 2020, with representation by Lambda Legal , Immigration Equality and law firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius ; [ 45 ] the United States Department of State withdrew its appeal of the verdict in Kiviti v.
In 1862, the Indian Penal Code, created by the colonial authorities of the British Raj, came into force. The code included Section 377 , which effectively criminalized same-sex activity in India. The Code was used as the basis for law in Britain's other colonies, therefore exporting anti-homosexuality laws throughout the British Empire . [ 29 ]
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1858 and from 1859 to 1865.
The following is a list of gods, goddesses, deities, and many other divine, semi-divine, and important figures from classical Philippine mythology and indigenous Philippine folk religions collectively referred to as Diwatas whose expansive stories span from a hundred years ago to presumably thousands of years from modern times.
A Blessed Life; A Child's Hope; A Classic Tour; A Dance of Moths; A Gesture Life; A Head Full of Dreams Tour; A Land Imagined; A Life of Hope; A Many-Splendoured Thing