It would permit gay couples to adopt, and also allow the inheritance of property.
It can be a badge of identity, an inheritance of upbringing or a statement of moral intent.
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Despite all the scientific advances of the past two centuries, magical thinking and the cultural inheritance of Christianity remain endemic.
Gay couples can be excellent parents but it's not the same as having the biological inheritance of both parents passed on to the child.
The Kirk said its revised version of The Inheritance of Abraham? paid attention to the concern over some of the language in the earlier report.
As the grandson of Darwin's bulldog, Thomas Huxley, and the great nephew of Matthew Arnold, he seemed to embody the double inheritance of the Victorian age.
I've recently come into an inheritance of a considerable sum.
Even the recently observed phenomenon of intergenerational epigenetics, which at first sight looks like the inheritance of acquired characteristics (a real Darwinian no-no), probably has less to it than meets the eye.
Indeed, it is so permanent that it can sometimes be passed down the generations, leading to a lot of excitable talk about the inheritance of acquired characteristics normally regarded as a Darwinian no-no.
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The genetic inheritance of Homo sapiens sapiens, which evolved during the 7m years or so that separate us from our last common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos, equipped man to succeed as a hunter-gatherer.
Both seem to imply that the colonial inheritance of an independent class of public servants who could detach themselves from their ethnic or religious roots and serve the nation offered Africa its best chance of developing.
The Commons meets at 2.30pm on Monday for Home Office questions, after which the Conservative Mary Macleod proposes to follow-up the Succession to the Crown Bill by removing male preference in the inheritance of hereditary peerages and estates.
For her experiment she studied the inheritance of three traits: a maroon coloured leaf marking, a white V-shaped leaf mark pattern, and the production of hydrogen cyanide in damaged leaves, which is thought to be a defence against predators.
It does seem to be true that Eunice felt a physical resonance with athletics, with events that challenged the body, an inheritance of decades of swimming and sailing at the Cape and of touch football on the back meadow at Timberlawn.
The symposium and exhibition are being organized to mark World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, which is yearly observed on 27 October to increase global attention for the need to preserve the world's inheritance of still and moving images and of sound recordings.
He recently signed on to a plan that is designed to divert tens of millions of dollars in estate tax from Uncle Sam into his own foundation--at a cost to his children's inheritance of just pennies on the dollar (see box, p. 186).
In the Anglo-Saxon world Lamarck's name, if it is known at all, is associated with a theory long since discredited - the idea known as the inheritance of acquired characteristics - the idea that traits or attributes acquired or learned in the space of your life time will somehow be inherited by your children at birth.
Schram is seeking compensation for loss of support, loss of inheritance, loss of companionship and loss of household assistance.
The hybrids were bred again with deer mice, and the type of burrows those "backcross" offspring made show the inheritance patterns of the behaviours - and strong hints of how many genetic changes are required to modify it.
The combination of generous inheritance laws and the practice of polygamy meant that wealth was dispersed among numerous claimants.
Unpredictability is another factor in that under the familial mode of inheritance you don't necessarily get an inheritance when you are starting out in life, which is arguably a point where you need some kind of financial platform to think creatively.
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Mr McCain would also reduce the numbers of people paying inheritance tax and cut the number of Americans who file itemised deductions.
Dr Stuart White, head of the Public Policy Unit at Oxford University, is an advocate of citizen's inheritance, moving the process of inheriting money away from families deciding who gets what, to redistribute wealth.
They rediscovered the laws of inheritance first developed 40 years earlier by Gregor Mendel, an unsung Moravian monk.
Stephen Byers, a former Labour minister and a strong supporter of Tony Blair, has called for the abolition of inheritance tax.
The artist, who died in 2011, specified in his will that the artworks should be donated in place of inheritance tax.
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The references to women in the Koran range from personal issues to the question of divorce, and from the law of inheritance to fidelity and partnership in marriage.
Plan said it wanted policymakers to ensure universal birth registration for all children orphaned by or living with Aids, protection of inheritance and property rights for Aids orphans and basic access to health care.
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