One caution before you rush to emancipate your child: Check the definition of "dependent" in your health plan contract.

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To be on Ascension, you must either have a job contract, or be the dependent of someone who does.

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The Indian government started renegotiating the contract price because it felt too dependent on the BAE order after the company issued a profits warning along with the jobs warning in January.

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