The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that it appears that the maid's passport was falsified to give her age as 23 when she went to Saudi Arabia - other documents said to be genuine show that in fact she was only 17 and therefore a child.

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Now, one thing that parents should bear in mind is that, at age 18, a Junior Isa (and CTF for that matter) goes straight to the child and therefore it is entirely their decision what the money is spent on or if the money is to be left invested (rolled into an adult Isa, for example).

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Profitable farming, women's income and child nutrition should therefore go together.

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Most notably, she and her colleagues measured only one urine sample for each child, and therefore weren't able to track whether the levels of pesticide byproducts were constant, or whether the association between exposure and ADHD changed over time.

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Early in the campaign, there was an unsuccessful attempt to have Mr Poe disqualified, arguing that he is the illegitimate child of an American mother and therefore not a Filipino.

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Data-mining should help identify, say, a stockbroking customer whose oldest child is turning 18, and who may therefore be disposed to consider an education loan.

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Your opinion that a child needs a mother and a father and therefore single people and gay people should be deprived of the right to bear and raise children is not supported by the research that shows children raised by gay and single parents do not suffer harm as a result.

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It is inherently modular and therefore easier and less expensive to customize to the way each child learns.

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Significantly, many kindergarten and pre-school teachers report that RTLP child-graduates have greater reading capacity and are therefore able to easily master new literacy skills than their classmates who never participated in the programme.

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Asked if giving generous per-child credits will result in an even larger number of households exempt from the income tax and therefore amenable to more spending, he says his plan will drive growth and that, in turn, will bring more people on to the tax rolls.

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