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  2. Disownment - Wikipedia

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    There was a process for disownment amongst the Tanala of Ikongo, [4] and disownment was inflicted as a punishment by the antandroy. [5] There was provision for disownment in the Code of Hammurabi. [6] In Louisiana, the right to disown a child was called action en desaveu. [7] In some cases, society and its institutions will accept an act of ...

  3. Child abandonment - Wikipedia

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    Disownment of a child is a form of abandonment that entails ending contact with and support for one's dependent. Disownment tends to occur later in a child's life, generally due to a conflict between the parent(s) and the child, but can also occur when children are still young.

  4. Emancipation of minors - Wikipedia

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    Emancipation overrides that presumption and allows emancipated children to legally make certain decisions on their own behalf. Depending on jurisdiction, a child may be emancipated by acts such as child marriage, attaining economic self-sufficiency, obtaining an educational degree or diploma, or military service. In the United States, all ...

  5. Runaway (dependent) - Wikipedia

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    International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children; National Runaway Safeline; Refugee children; Street children; Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway; Child abandonment – children whose parents remove them from the home or refuse to allow them to live at home; Disownment – declaring that a child is no longer part of the family

  6. Child abduction - Wikipedia

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    Child abduction or child theft is the unauthorized removal of a minor (a child under the age of legal adulthood) from the custody of the child's natural parents or legally appointed guardians. The term child abduction includes two legal and social categories which differ by their perpetrating contexts: abduction by members of the child's family ...

  7. Repudiation - Wikipedia

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    Disownment, the formal act by which a parent forcibly renounces his child Anticipatory repudiation is a term in the law of contracts that describes a declaration by one party (the promising party) to a contract that they do not intend to live up to their obligations under the contract

  8. Family estrangement - Wikipedia

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    Although the rejected party's psychological and physical health may decline, the estrangement initiator's may improve due to the cessation of abuse and conflict. [2] [3] The social rejection in family estrangement is the equivalent of ostracism which undermines four fundamental human needs: the need to belong, the need for control in social situations, the need to maintain high levels of self ...

  9. Orphan - Wikipedia

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    However, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), and other groups label any child who has lost one parent as an orphan. In this approach, a maternal orphan is a child whose mother has died, a paternal orphan is a child whose father has died, and a double orphan is a child/teen/infant ...