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An alternative term for childless marriage that implies that a couple choose not to have children.  

Instruction designed for the interests, abilities, and needs of individual students, learner-centered approach, teacher- centered approach.  

A criterion that is used by the United States Supreme Court to determine whether services provided to public and nonpublic school students benefit children and not the school or religion. If they benefit only the children, the courts have ruled that the services may be funded by public monies.  

A movement dedicated to defining, protecting, and ensuring the rights of children.  

Parents (parents, guardians, or caretakers) who treat children in an unusual and cruel manner. “Punishment” may take the form of kicking, beating, and the use of chains, rods, burning with lighted cigarettes, etc. There is no logical reason for the unusual and cruel punishments; no excuse is evident may come from any socioeconomic group and…

The executive head of a state department of education, often referred to as the state school superintendent or the commissioner of education.  

A slang expression referring to child pornography.  

A visible change of partners or crossover in two of a group of four chromatids during the first meiotic prophase. The point at which homologous chromosomes remain in contact after they have started to separate in the first division of meiosis. Chiasmata occur from the end of prophase to anaphase and represent the point at…

X-shaped structure; the crossing of two lines or tracts, esp. chiasma opticum, crossed fibers of the optic nerve.  

A form of smokeless tobacco that is chewed rather than burned or smoked, snuff. Tobacco that has been pressed together for chewing rather than smoking; also called smokeless tobacco. Chewing tobacco contains nicotine, and the hazards of addiction to smokeless tobacco compare to those of smoking. Chewing tobacco wears away tooth enamel, erodes the gums,…