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By 2016, less than 0.5% of all schoolchildren were subject to corporal punishment, compared with about 4% in the late '70s, according to the Society for Research in Child Development.
It’s now possible to do most of your banking online, and nearly every online bank has a fully-functional mobile app. COVID-19 may have accelerated this trend, as people attempt to avoid physical ...
Some U.S. states currently have an urban percentage around or above 90%, an urbanization rate almost unheard of a century ago. The states of Maine and Vermont have bucked the trend towards greater urbanization which is exhibited throughout the rest of the United States. Maine's highest urban percentage ever was less than 52% (in 1950), and ...
Modi has spent more than 30 years in public life – the last 10 as the domineering leader of a country of some 1.4 billion people – but most of what is known about his early years is a ...
Gentrification is marked by changing demographics and, thus changing social order and norms. In some cases, when affluent households move into a working-class community of residents (often primarily Black or Latino communities), the new residents' different perceptions of acceptable neighborhood behavior and cultural activity of pre-existing residents may be in conflict with the established ...
Among the reasons the United States has failed to ratify the Convention is the fact that the Convention clearly states that anyone under the age of 18 is a child. The U.S. government has reservations about how that would affect matters when a 16- or 17-year-old commits a crime; currently, in certain instances, such a person can be tried as an ...
Optimism has been further fueled by Cleveland-Cliffs' announcement this year of a $2 billion investment in its Middletown Works steel plant, and the city has approved a new, $200 million ...
The history of childhood has been a topic of interest in social history since the highly influential book Centuries of Childhood, published by French historian Philippe Ariès in 1960. He argued " childhood " as a concept was created by modern society.