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upbringing

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helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

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they debated whether nature or nurture was more important Source: Internet

Again, she sees upbringing as a factor, citing the example a girl who falls off a bike and is told that in future she should be more careful. Source: Internet

A kshatriya by birth, he had military training in his upbringing, and by Shakyan tradition was required to pass tests to demonstrate his worthiness as a warrior in order to marry. Source: Internet

Across the EU, belief was higher among women, older people, those with religious upbringing, those who left school at 15 or 16 and those "positioning themselves on the right of the political scale". Source: Internet

As Carter closed in on the nomination, an "ABC" (Anybody But Carter) movement started among Northern and Western liberal Democrats who worried that Carter's Southern upbringing would make him too conservative for the Democratic Party. Source: Internet

After he became a parent, he became a Unitarian Universalist (UU). citation He has stated: "Like many people, I had a religious upbringing which I rejected as a teenager.. Source: Internet

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