Although these still-sealed documents apparently contain nothing to contradict McVeigh's boastful confessions, it was widely assumed that his lawyers would be granted more time to study them.

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Although it was largely ignored at the time, that study led to the 1988 Welfare Reform Act, which for the first time recognised a father's duty to support his children (and a mother's responsibility to find a job).

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There was a long lag between the time the study was finished (July 2006, according to clinicialtrials.gov) and when it was released.

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The authors of the study say it was the first to compare police and hospital data and that its four year time span was longer than other CCTV evaluations.

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Dr Srilatha Gorthi from the Leeds Centre for Reproductive Medicine, who presented the UK study at the same conference, said it was the first time that young women's attitudes to fertility had been examined in this way.

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