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  2. Sociology of the family - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The central argument in the debate for legal rights, policies and overall support is related to the idea of same-sex couples raising children is the well-being of children raised in those families. There are concerns like about the mental, emotional and even the social development of children who are raised in same-sex couple ...

  3. The Nurture Assumption - Wikipedia

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    The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do is a 1998 book by the psychologist Judith Rich Harris. Originally published 1998 by the Free Press, which published a revised edition in 2009. [1] The book was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

  4. Recess (break) - Wikipedia

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    Netherlands, 1934 Sweden, 2006 Vietnam, 2014. Recess is a general term for a period in which a group of people are temporarily dismissed from their duties.. In education, recess is the American and Australian term (known as break or playtime in the UK), where students have a mid morning snack and play before having lunch after a few more lessons.

  5. Developmental psychology - Wikipedia

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    In fact, the majority of children from divorcing families fall into the normal range on measures of psychological and cognitive functioning. [162] A number of mediating factors play a role in determining the effects divorce has on a child, for example, divorcing families with young children often face harsher consequences in terms of ...

  6. Kinship - Wikipedia

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    For example, a person studying the ontological roots of human languages might ask whether there is kinship between the English word seven and the German word sieben. It can be used in a more diffuse sense as in, for example, the news headline " Madonna feels kinship with vilified Wallis Simpson ", to imply a felt similarity or empathy between ...

  7. Recess - Wikipedia

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  8. Nature versus nurture - Wikipedia

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    For example, one study found no statistically significant difference in self-reported wellbeing between middle-aged monozygotic twins separated at birth and those reared in the same household, suggesting that happiness in middle-aged adults is not based in environmental factors related to family rearing.

  9. Attention - Wikipedia

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    Children appear to develop patterns of attention related to the cultural practices of their families, communities, and the institutions in which they participate. [ 99 ] In 1955, Jules Henry suggested that there are societal differences in sensitivity to signals from many ongoing sources that call for the awareness of several levels of ...