parenting

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parenting

the manner in which the senior managers of a company manage their subordinate companies or business units. Good parenting in the form of dear goals for business unit managers, monitoring of their performance, appropriate rewards and tight financial controls can improve the performance of these business units. See DIVERSIFICATION.

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Governments and their experts have become extraordinarily involved in one of the most intimate of life's activities, the rearing of children.

The kinning of foreigners; transnational adoption in a global perspective

His first book, Dare to Discipline, sold more than 3 million copies, according to FOF's website, and was a call for parents to be sterner in the rearing of children.

James Dobson: the religious rights: 800-pound gorilla

The Nazis sought to replace marriage with "breeding farms" for the racially pure, and the Bolsheviks, who set in place the Russian Communist system in 1917, considered marriage "backward" and "reactionary" because it thwarted their plans for the collective rearing of children.

Nihilism and Christianity: a war of religion

Experts in the rearing of children have long advocated the benefits of breast feeding for purely physical reasons.