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suggested half a million girls were being lost each year.

an extra pair of hands on the farm.

where boys

29 percent a son.”

37 percent wanted a daughter

Twenty years ago

ould decide on the sex of their child

116.5 baby boys for every 100 girls born.

2008,

106.4 boys for every 100 girls

within the international average

Maybe

parents are now less likely to rely on their children for financial support after retirement

less necessary to have a son

low national birth rate (the lowest in the world) means that parents who are planning just one child believe a girl will care for them emotionally in their old age.

Or perhap

“it’s more fun bringing up girls than boys.”

District Court judge Dorothy McCarter ruled in favor of a terminally ill Billings resident who had filed a lawsuit with the assistance of Compassion & Choices, a patient rights group. The ruling states that competent, terminally ill patients have the right to self-administer lethal doses of medication as prescribed by a physician. Physicians who prescribe such medications will not face legal punishment

Ballot Measure 16 in 1994 established the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, which legalizes physician-assisted dying with certain restrictions

Texas hospitals and physicians have the right to withdraw life support measures, such as mechanical respiration, from terminally ill patients when such treatment is considered to be both futile and inappropriate.

In 2008, assisted suicide in the state of Washington was made legal by Initiative 1000.

A 2002 Gallup survey showed that 72% of Americans supported euthanasia

Recent studies have shown European-Americans to be more accepting of euthanasia than African-Americans, though this difference may be explained by other factors. They are also more likely to have advance directives and to use other end-of-life measures.[8] African-Americans are almost 3 times more likely to oppose euthanasia than European-Americans. The main reason for this discrepancy is attributed to the lower levels of trust in the medical establishment

Attempts to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide resulted in ballot initiatives and legislation bills within the United States in the last 20 years.

and they may not be the decisionmakers.

couples eat flatbread and onions to ensure a boy child.

igh value given to males decreases the value given to females."

Indian state governments have sometimes taken measures to diminish the slaughter of infant girls and abortions of female fetuses.

f one parent undergoes sterilization, the government will give the family [U.S.] \\$160 in aid per child.

tate with one or two daughters and no sons

The money will be paid in instalments as the girl goes through school. She will also get a small gold ring and on her 20th birthday, a lump sum of $650 to serve as her dowry or defray the expenses of higher education. Four thousand families enrolled in the first year," with 6,000 to 8,000 expected to join annually (as of 1994

teachers who play Mozart to their students in the hopes their test scores will improve. "And for a lot of students it's not going to work simply because Mozart is weird to them. They're not used to it. They don't like it, and so nobody performs well under stress."

music

College students were required to listen to ten minutes of Mozart's sonata for two pianos in D major, a relaxation tape, or silence.

original experiment was published in 1993

Mozart to test for improvements in memory and this idea thus became known as the "Mozart Effect".

scientists at the University of California at Irvine.

should be a measurable correlation between musically trained minds and their intelligence

brain = behavior,

Allen stated that bloody knives found in his car the night of the Lake Berryessa attacks had been used to kill chickens. He volunteered this informationeven though the investigators had not even asked him about the knives at that point.

Allen's fingerprints, DNA, and handwriting did not match to any evidence recovered from the Zodiac crimes.