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  2. Conscription - Wikipedia

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    No (abolished by law on 31 December 2001) [175] N/A Sri Lanka: No N/A Sudan: Yes. Sudanese law allows for conscription of women, but this is not implemented in practice. [88] Male and female Suriname: No N/A Sweden: Yes. Abolished in 2010 but reintroduced in 2017 (alternative service available) [176] Male and female Switzerland

  3. Socialization - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, socialization (also socialisation – see spelling differences) is the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies of society.Socialization encompasses both learning and teaching and is thus "the means by which social and cultural continuity are attained".

  4. Tradition - Wikipedia

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    Traditions, an 1895 bronze tympanum by Olin Levi Warner over the main entrance of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.. A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.

  5. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the ...

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    Spain: Law 31/1972 changed the law in respect to articles 320 and 321. It reduced the age of majority to 21 in all cases for women, and allowed women to act as an adult in civil life. This meant both men and women reached majority when they were 21. [315] [179] [171] Spain: The law changed in 1972 to give women more freedom from their fathers.

  6. Tax - Wikipedia

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    For traditional conservatives, the payment of taxation is justified as part of the general obligations of citizens to obey the law and support established institutions. The conservative position is encapsulated in perhaps the most famous adage of public finance , "An old tax is a good tax". [ 88 ]

  7. Slavery in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    A dodge around freeborn status that continued into late antiquity was to lease the minor child's labor up to age 20 or 25, so that the holder of the lease did not own the child as property but had full-time use through the legal transfer of potestas. [276] Roman law thus grappled with the tensions among the supposed sanctity of free birth ...

  8. Father - Wikipedia

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    A biological father may have legal obligations to a child not raised by him, such as an obligation of monetary support. An adoptive father is a man who has become the child's parent through the legal process of adoption. A putative father is a man whose biological relationship to a child is alleged but has not been established.