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Beware the new trend of decriminalizing prostitution

Beware the new trend of decriminalizing prostitution

Mar 13, 2024 |

The research team I work with is currently knee-deep into categorizing the legal approach that each nation takes with regard to prostitution. This project has really opened my eyes to the wide variety of approaches taken. For example, in some countries, buying sex is perfectly legal but providing that sex for money is strictly illegal. In other cases, we’ve seen countries do abrupt legal U-turns as they discover that the approach they are taking is making things worse.

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Marriage, Family, and the Mental Health Crisis

Marriage, Family, and the Mental Health Crisis

Mar 13, 2024 | ,

As of 2022, 15% of U.S. teens reported a major depressive episode1(up from 8% in 2007).2 The suicide rate has increased by 38% in the last 20 years, an all-time high.3 The vast majority of Americans agree that we are facing a mental health crisis. It’s worth considering, how did we get here? What is driving the huge increase in mental health problems facing our nation?

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Macron vows to push abortion into EU rights charter after France enshrines it in constitution

Macron vows to push abortion into EU rights charter after France enshrines it in constitution

Mar 12, 2024 |

In an emotion-fuelled ceremony on March 8 held to mark the occasion of enshrining abortion into the French constitution, President Emmanuel Macron – without a hint of irony – stated in a celebratory speech that the move was the culmination of a fight for “freedom, a fight made up of tears, tragedies, and broken destinies.” He wasn’t referring to the countless children discarded under the French feticide regime; he was referring to France becoming the first country to put abortion in the Constitution.

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