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generations .
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Throughout most of the century, “none” parents were likely to have “something” children, so that intergenerationally, the category of “no religion” was highly unstable.13 As we saw in the previous chapter, the fraction of all Americans who claimed no religion was quite small roughly 5–10 percent until the 1990s; it rose sharply after 1990 among the millennial generation.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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One interesting implication is that with a relatively stable overall economy, greater reproductive success at the top means that there has to be a lot of downward mobility intergenerationally.
The Malthusian Trap, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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“And the consequences are also clear for poverty; delinquency and crime, sexual promiscuity; education and employment; physical; emotional, and mental health; spiritual well-being; and social pathologies transmit themselves intergenerationally.”
Books 2009
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On average, populations that are more genetically distant have had more time to diverge in a broad variety of characteristics transmitted intergenerationally.
Is Economic Growth Genetic?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Abuse and Victimization are roles that often get passed down intergenerationally, the abused child or the victim, is at risk, without recovery, of becoming an abusing parent.
Dr. Tian Dayton: Relationship Dynamics Within the Addicted/Traumatized Family System Dr. Tian Dayton 2010
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Progress being measured intergenerationally should not be an excuse to ignore issues of inequality in the here and now, and objecting to social trends which make women feel more pressured to stay at home is not anti-feminist by any stretch.
Is modern motherhood oppressive? « Gender Across Borders 2010
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A Constitution using temporal indexicals that way presupposes that it is spoken at the Founding, not intergenerationally.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Constitution and the Golden Calf — A Response to Randy: 2009
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At least, they are loons in terms of their crazed 'Great Work of Ages' - intergenerationally, they should all be in loony bins.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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At least, they are loons in terms of their crazed 'Great Work of Ages' - intergenerationally, they should all be in loony bins.
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On whether the Constitution has rules for its own interpretation, I think it does, though they are implicit in the phrase “this Constitution” and words like “now” and forms of “here” and “we”; the Constitution defines itself as a historically-embedded textual expression of meaning as opposed to historic goals, or historic applications, or intergenerationally-authored common-law concepts, or expression of meaning at the time of interpretation.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Constitution and the Golden Calf — A Response to Randy: 2009
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