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| The notion that all children ought to have a socially and legally recognized father. |
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| Legally binding agreement or contractual relationship between two people and is defined and regualted by the state. |
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| Relationship between people who cohabit and engage in behavior that is essentially the same as that within a legal marriage, but without engaging in the ceremony that is validated by the state. |
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| Marrying one person while still being legally married to another. |
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| Extramarital sexual intercourse. |
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| Sexual intercourse outside legal marriage. |
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| People related by marriage, such as brother-in-law, even though they are not blood related. |
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| The idea that a wife is under the protection and influence of her husband-that the two become one at marriage. |
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| Rights pertaining to the marriage relationship. |
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| Personal Marriage Agreement |
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| A written agreement between a married couple in which issues of role responsibilities, obligations, and sharing are addressed in a manner that is tailored to their own personal preferences, desires, and expectations. |
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| Developed and worked out in consultation with an attorney and filed as a legal document. |
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| The degree to which a couple get along with each other or have a good working relationship and are able to satisfy each other's needs over the marital life course. |
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| Marriage between people who vary in certain social and demographic characteristics. |
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| The actual number of live births in a population. |
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| The number of births per thousand women in their childbearing years. |
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| The average number of children women would have over their lifetime if current birth rates remained. |
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| One that encourages childbearing. |
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| Policies and practices that discourage people from having children. |
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| Mechanisms for preventing fertilization. |
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| Premature termination of a pregnancy before the fetus can survive on its own. |
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| The inability to conceive after twelve months of unprotected sex. |
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| Assisted Reproductive Technology |
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| A general term that includes all treatments or procedures involving the handling of human eggs and sperm to establish a pregnancy. |
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| The injection of fresh or frozen semen into the vagina or uterus of an ovulating woman. |
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| Surgically removing a woman's eggs, fertilizing them in a petri dish with the partner's or donors sperm, and then implanting one or more of the eggs in the woman's uterus. |
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| A procedure whereby a fertilized egg from a woman donor is implanted into an infertile woman. |
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| Woman agrees to be artificially inseminated with a man's sperm, carry the fetus to term, and relinquish all rights to the child after it's born. |
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| Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis |
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| Allows physicians to identify chromosomal abnormalities. |
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| Performed when there is some concern about a hereditary disease. |
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| Allows a physician and the couple to observe the developing fetus directly through the echos of the woman's pulsating body. |
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| Rate at which babies die before their first birthday. |
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| Allows parents to see the fetus and any movement it makes. |
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| All defects present at birth. |
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| The rate of occurrence of illness or disease in a population. |
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| The rate of occurrence of death in a population. |
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| A lifelong condition that causes physical and mental disabilities characterized by growth deficiencies, skeletal deformities, facial abnormalities, organ deformities, and central nervous system handicaps. |
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| A condition characterized by mood shifts, irritability, and fatigue. |
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| The belief that the ultimate achievement and fulfillment of womanhood is through motherhood. |
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| A marriage in which each partner lives in a different geographic location and therefore maintains a separate place of residence. |
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| A situation in which a persons various roles carry more responsibilities that that person can reasonably manage. |
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| Occupational Distribution |
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| The location of workers in different occupations. |
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| Unwanted leers, comments, suggestions, or physical contact of a sexual nature that the recipient finds offensive and causes discomfort. |
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| The increasing numbers of women and children who are poor. |
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| Individuals who work a full-time job but make very low wages. |
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| A situation in which a worker is employed but not in the desired capacity, whether in terms of compensation, hours, or level of skills and experience. |
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| Two workers split a single full-time job. |
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| Allow employees to choose when they arrive at and leave work within specified time limits. |
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| Family and Medical Leave Act |
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| Allows either parent to take up to 3 months of unpaid leave for births, adoptions, and family emergency. |
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| Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 |
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| Requires that pregnant employees be treated the same as employees with any temporary disability. |
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