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  2. Boy or girl paradox - Wikipedia

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    From all families with two children, at least one of whom is a boy, a family is chosen at random. This would yield the answer of ⁠ 1 / 3 ⁠. From all families with two children, one child is selected at random, and the sex of that child is specified to be a boy. This would yield an answer of ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠. [3] [4]

  3. Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl - Wikipedia

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    Argument: Oral argument: Opinion announcement: Opinion announcement: Case history; Prior: 398 S.C. 625, 731 S.E.2d 550: Holding; Held that § 1912(f) does not apply to a parent who has never had custody of the child, that § 1912(d) only applies when a relationship between parent and child already exists, and that § 1915(a)'s preferences do not apply when there are no alternative parties ...

  4. One-child policy - Wikipedia

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    As of 2007, only 36% of the population were subjected to a strict one-child limit. 53% were permitted to have a second child if their first was a daughter; 9.6% of Chinese couples were permitted two children regardless of their gender; and 1.6% – mainly Tibetans – had no limit at all.

  5. Loaded question - Wikipedia

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    A loaded question is a form of complex question that contains a controversial assumption (e.g., a presumption of guilt). [1] Such questions may be used as a rhetorical tool: the question attempts to limit direct replies to be those that serve the questioner's agenda. [2] The traditional example is the question "Have you stopped beating your wife?"

  6. Complex question - Wikipedia

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    If, for example, one were to ask whether you were going to New York or London, or if your favourite colour were red or blue, or if you had given up a particular bad habit, he would be guilty of the fallacy of the complex question, if, in each case, the alternatives, as a matter of fact, were more numerous than, or were in any way different from ...

  7. Question - Wikipedia

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    These can have different ways of expressing affirmation and denial from the standard form of question, and they can be confusing, since it is sometimes unclear whether the answer should be the opposite of the answer to the non-negated question. For example, if one does not have a passport, both "Do you have a passport?"

  8. Suggestive question - Wikipedia

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    A suggestive question is a question that implies that a certain answer should be given in response, [1] [2] or falsely presents a presupposition in the question as accepted fact. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Such a question distorts the memory thereby tricking the person into answering in a specific way that might or might not be true or consistent with their ...

  9. Children's rights - Wikipedia

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    Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors. [1] The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as "any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier."