If you are willing to acknowledge that full-time caregiving may be a suitable, even preferable, use of one’s capacities, there can be little justification for policies that guard against it—in fact, you may want to construct policies that enable it.
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The data suggest that across the 14 years, married adults ages 25 to 50 fell into the thriving range far more often — “by double-digit margins” — than did those who never married, 61% vs. 45% in 2023. For both those who are divorced and those in domestic partnership, 45% were thriving, based on annual averages.
Gallup said that finding was true across racial and ethnic groups and for both men and women. Nor could educational attainment or age account for the association between being married and thriving, the research firm added.
A new study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that a simple change in how death certificates were filled out could have led to an overestimation of the U.S. maternal mortality rate.
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The media’s portrayal of people with Down syndrome has grown more positive in recent years, with featured stories of people with Down syndrome that highlight their achievements. Many of these are published on March 21 — World Down Syndrome Day — and rightly so.
People who have Down syndrome don’t fit into a box. They have a variety of skill sets and abilities. Some may require 24-hour care, others may live their lives with their parents, while others may have jobs, live on their own, and get married. Each person’s story is different — which is what makes life the amazing miracle that it is. No two people are exactly alike. Yet, major media news outlets are still hypocritical when it comes to how they treat human beings with Down syndrome.
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Seventy-five years ago, America was in the midst of a baby boom thanks to World War II vets who’d returned home heroes, eager to settle down and make more Americans. And 25 years ago, we still had admirably high birth rates relative to other developed nations.
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