Archive for March 25th, 2009
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SEXUAL LAWS TODAY: FINANCIAL SUPPORT AFTER DIVORCE
During divorce proceedings, courts must consider how to provide for the financial support of the children and/or the divorcing partners. Collecting court-ordered child support can be difficult. Many fathers fail to make the required payments. Their former families are often forced into poverty and onto welfare. Poverty is less frequently a problem for fathers whose [...]
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TAKING CARE OF OUR BODIES
According to the World Health Organization, sexual health includes the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social aspects of sexuality combined in ways that are positively enriching and that enhance personality, communication, and love. People who are sexually healthy protect themselves from illness and unintended pregnancy, are aware of their sexual behavior and attitudes, and accept responsibility [...]
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SEXUALITY IN ADOLESCENCE: FREQUENCY OF INTERCOURSE AND NUMBER OF PARTNERS
Although intercourse among unmarried adolescent women is not rare, young women are, generally speaking, not promiscuous. This is seen both by their frequency of intercourse as well as by the number of partners with whom they have ever had intercourse. About four out of ten sexually experienced women in the 1971 survey had not had [...]
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CHILDHOOD SEXUALITY: DEVELOPMENTAL PHASES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD (6-7 YEARS)
At six years there are a greater awareness of and interest in the differences between sexes in body structure. Questioning and mutual investigation by both sexes reveal practical answers to questions about sex differences. Interest in the origin of babies, pregnancy, and birth continues. If the child is told of intercourse by older playmates, [...]
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SEX DIFFERENCES: ABSOLUTE, SEX-SHARED/THRESHOLD-DIMORPHIC, AND ARBITRARY
There are absolute sex differences, but they pertain to reproduction. Females menstruate, gestate, and lactate. Males impregnate. Other behavior which is hormonally primed prenatally is shared by both sexes. The difference lies in the threshold for its elicitation. This is sex-shared/threshold-dimorphic behavior. There is also sex-different behavior of a purely arbitrary type. Some of the [...]