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  • The most original, and challenging, component of the report was its new four‑stage model of the adult lifecourse.

    Learning resources should not be concentrated solely on the young 2011

  • Do you mean that most people with this degree remain unemployed throughout the lifecourse; work but in a career unrelated to music teaching, research, or performance by choice or by necessity; or something else?

    Wired Campus 2010

  • It summarises extensive research, including New Zealand's own lifecourse studies of children's wellbeing, which suggests that children exposed to low family income in the early years, in addition to experiencing higher hospital admissions and mortality in the short term, also have worse long-term results.

    TUMEKE! 2009

  • "A focus on maternal mental health over the lifecourse instead of isolated periods has the potential to improve the health of women and children, and therefore families and the community."

    UQ News Online 2009

  • The closest I can figure out and comfortably use is that it means a person who was labeled so by society in order to be kept subordinate in a patriarchal system that holds often binary gender categories to be the primary determinant of one’s lifecourse.

    Responding To The Feminist Anti-Transsexual Arguments 2007

  • The closest I can figure out and comfortably use is that it means a person who was labeled so by society in order to be kept subordinate in a patriarchal system that holds often binary gender categories to be the primary determinant of one’s lifecourse.

    Responding To The Feminist Anti-Transsexual Arguments 2007

  • The High/Scope Foundation’s Perry Preschool study in Michigan presented evidence that the number of later lifecourse “chronic lawbreakers” was reduced by up to 80 percent among children who received child care similar to Head Start along with family “coaching” visitations.

    The Population of the United States Douglas L. Anderton 1997

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