The liberal solution would be for Mother to give each child just one penny a day, forcing a daily equality of outcome.

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For example, just this week a study reported that in contrast to the widely held notion that bullying predicts depression, the authors found just the opposite: That depressive symptoms may make a child more likely to be singled out and picked on.

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It's important to remember that a child can still be gifted if he or she possesses just some--not all--of the listed characteristics in the scales.

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The day is likely to be even more poignant for those men who have just become fathers and are celebrating the birth of a new child.

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Her husband, Milton Brothers, was still in medical school and Brothers had just given up her teaching positions at Hunter College and Columbia University to be home with her newborn, firmly believing a child's development depended on it.

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It showed that each child born will be facing a lifelong financial burden of JPY 16, 000, 000 just to maintain the system.

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