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Mungiki’s origins can be traced in part to the sons and daughters of Mau Mau fighters, the dispossessed Kikuyu who fought the Kikuyu elite and British colonists in the 1950s.
(He has two grown daughters, twins, with Lyudmila.)
Despite some of the more fevered declarations made by Kouchner and other human rights activists, states do not tend to behave altruistically, and electorates do not tend to wish to see their sons and daughters kill and die in altruistic wars.
In fact, until recently, the only women who had become heads of state in Latin American countries were daughters or wives of political leaders.
MELBOURNE – Many years ago, my wife and I were driving somewhere with our three young daughters in the back, when one of them suddenly asked: “Would you rather that we were clever or that we were happy?”
Chua’s daughters, Sophia and Louise, were never allowed to watch television, play computer games, sleep over at a friend’s home, or be in a school play.
One of my daughters, who now has children of her own, tells me amazing stories about her friends’ parenting styles.
People who watch the butchering of their children and parents, the rape of their wives, daughters, and sisters, and the wanton destruction of their homes and livelihoods do not forget.
The protesters who ended Ben Ali’s regime are the educated sons and daughters of the large, secular middle class that was built over decades by Habib Bourguiba.
Two generations ago, only a small minority of the daughters of the elite received a university education.
American women improved their game because soccer moms do not heavily rely on husbands to fund their daughters’ training.
One study of the 1,941 rulers of independent countries during the twentieth century found only 27 women, roughly half of whom came to power as widows or daughters of a male ruler.
None of us can stand by and endlessly witness schools shut down, girls cut off from education, and parents living in fear for their daughters’ lives.
Like one of the world’s greatest nations – though one currently debased by those who purport to lead it – the Kurdish nation-state will be a “shining city on a hill,” a luminous lodestar for the lost sons and daughters of Kurdistan, and a source of hope for all of the world’s dispossessed and displaced.
It should come as no surprise, then, that civilians like Nasser, who have lost mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters in US strikes, are outraged not only at the US, but also at the Yemeni government, which consented to the attacks.
And today, the ambition of many working-class Italian mothers is to see their daughters become a successful scantily clad “velina” who, in turn, manages to hit the gossip columns by flirting with the latest muscleman-turned-TV heartthrob or some budding young football player.
Parents might decide that they would rather put their daughters in the perceived “safety” of marriage, instead of exposing them to these risks.
They operate in countries that typically refuse to recognize the agency of women beyond the role of mothers, wives, and daughters.
They use their given role as a badge of moral authority, taking their voices and their truth out of the home and into the streets to fight not for abstract concepts of justice, but for sons and daughters with names and histories.
Unlike conventional indicators, which capture inequality in outcomes like education and employment, the OECD’s Social Institutions Gender Index (SIGI) evaluates the underlying drivers of such outcomes, comparing factors such as preferential treatment of sons over daughters, violence against women, and restrictions on property rights.
It is the kind of vocabulary that emerges from nativist movements that are hostile to ethnic or religious minorities, or to financial or intellectual elites who supposedly conspire to undermine the true sons and daughters of the nation.
So deep is the despair and desolation felt by the girls’ parents that they are now considering whether to declare their daughters “presumed dead.”
No one can overstate the families’ unspeakable anguish from not knowing if their daughters have been raped, beaten, or trafficked out of Nigeria – or even if they are still alive.
With services like Maghicle enabling people to get around safely, affordably, conveniently, and sustainably, Sam does not have to worry about his wife or daughters getting into automobile accidents, as his parents worried about him.
Record numbers of sons and daughters of political leaders and millionaires (and people with criminal backgrounds) contested this election.
Should we imprison mothers because they are willingly sacrifice their daughters' physical integrity on the altar of tradition?
Indeed, we found that all Lebanese families strongly prefer sons over daughters.
Families that have two daughters are 9% more likely to have a third child than families that have two sons.
Indian couples have a strong cultural preference, bordering on obsession, for sons over daughters – despite the strides in education and employment that women have made over the last few decades.
In short, sons represent income and daughters an expense.
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