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These have to do with the food Belmonters eat, their drinking habits, the ages at which they marry and have children, the books they read (and their number), the television shows and movies they watch (and the hours spent on them), the humor they enjoy, the way they take care of their bodies, the way they decorate their homes, their leisure activities, their work environments and their child-raising practices.
The New American Divide Charles Murray 2012
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Often, the girl and her family will bear the brunt of pregnancy and child-raising.
Elizabeth Hampton: Why Planned Parenthood Matters for American Schools Elizabeth Hampton 2011
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Gaiman defends controversial child-raising techniques on The Colbert Report
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We must get men back into the child-raising game, as we bring a variety of rousing activities back into the classroom.
John Thompson: Boys (and Girls) Need Games and Structure John Thompson 2011
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Their child-raising practices are distinctive, and they typically take care to enroll their children in schools dominated by the offspring of the upper middle class—or, better yet, of the new upper class.
Notable & Quotable 2012
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Besides, everybody knows that the ideal child-raising set-up is not to have just one parent at home, but rather to be adopted by the Jolie-Pitts.
Greg Olear: 8 Reasons Why Stay-at-Home Dads Are Better Than Stay-at-Home Moms Greg Olear 2011
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Before I started reading up on the science I'd always had some sort of hazy, flaky liberal ideas about child-raising and parenting.
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In almost every one of those programmes, just out of shot, would be the quiet, stoical, lovely people who had done the important job of child-raising – generally being ignored.
This is my real dad 2011
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It's not a good recipe for child-raising or society.
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We must get men back into the child-raising game, as we bring a variety of rousing activities back into the classroom.
John Thompson: Boys (and Girls) Need Games and Structure John Thompson 2011
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