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  2. Quadripoint - Wikipedia

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    The borders of the historic condominium of Moresnet.Moresnet is colored blue, the Netherlands orange, Belgium yellow, and Prussia green.. An early instance of four political divisions meeting at a point is the Four Shire Stone in Moreton-in-Marsh, England (attested in the Domesday Book, 1086, [6] [7] and mentioned since 969 if not 772 [8]); until 1931, it was the meeting point of the English ...

  3. One-child policy - Wikipedia

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    The one-child policy (Chinese: 一孩政策; pinyin: yī hái zhèngcè) was a population planning initiative in China implemented between 1979 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child.

  4. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    In March 2023, Quizlet started to incorporate AI features with the release "Q-Chat", a virtual AI tutor powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT API. [24] [25] [26] Quizlet launched four additional AI powered features in August 2023 to assist with student learning. [27] [28] In July 2024, Kurt Beidler, the former co-CEO of Zwift, joined Quizlet as the new ...

  5. International child abduction in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A State Department official stated in 2008 that no child has ever been returned to the United States from Japan as a result of diplomatic or legal means [29] The official stated he knew of only three cases where children have returned to America, two involving reconciliation of parents, and one in which a 15-year-old child escaped to the ...

  6. International adoption - Wikipedia

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    Adoption policies for each country vary widely. Information such as the age of the adoptive parents, financial status, educational level, marital status and history, number of dependent children in the house, sexual orientation, weight, psychological health, and ancestry are used by countries to determine what parents are eligible to adopt from that country.

  7. Sex-selective abortion - Wikipedia

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    In 35 countries, claims Bongaarts, the desired birth sex ratio in respective countries would be more than 110 boys for every 100 girls if parents in these countries had a child matching their preferred gender (higher than India's, which The Economist claims is 108).

  8. U.S. ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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    Geraldine Van Bueren, the author of the principal textbook on the international rights of the child, and a participant in the drafting of the Convention, has described the "best interest of the child standard" in the treaty as "provid[ing] decision and policy makers with the authority to substitute their own decisions for either the child's or ...

  9. Child poverty in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For future policies, research suggests that greater investment directed to children and families in poverty and connections between healthcare providers and financial services can lower the child poverty rate. In 2022, the child poverty rate climbed to 12.4% from 5.2% in 2021, largely as a result of the end of pandemic aid in late 2021. [3] [4]