Case Comment: Retroactivity, Social Obligation and Child Support

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Postnatal depression, social support, and child abuse.

Child abduction, parents' distress, and social support.

This study examines how parents of family and nonfamily abducted children cope with stress due to the disappearance of their child. The results show that all parents experience distress, regardless of whether it was a family or nonfamily abduction. Associated with parental distress are factors such as prior family stress, age of the child, recovery status of the child, and measures of social su...

Retroactivity and administrative rulemaking.

Arrow’s Social Ordering as Moral Obligation

This paper aimed to prove that Arrow's Theorem is meant not only to formulate a social decision process but also to clarify moral rules or a " modus vivendi " in an objective, scientific way. In order to achieve this aim, the paper traced the theoretical development of Arrow's theory through a look at the argument between Arrow and (among others) Bergson and Little.