In a system of communal parenting, children are the responsibility of the entire community and are not raised by their biological parents. Generally, children live in a communal home with appointed caregivers. The community takes on the financial burden of raising them and decides upon disciplinary and education standards as a collective.

Decriminalisation is the removal of criminal penalties for an illegal act. Legalisation is a legislative shift, often including regulations, liscencing, and taxation

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The institutionalization of art includes but is not limited to the emphasis on formal art training in standardized curricula, the recognition of art through its placement in formal institutions (e.g. museums, galleries), and the requirement of academic credentials (e.g. university degrees in art).

"Gaelic is an ancient Celtic language of Scotland. The Endangered Languages Project lists Gaelic's status as ""threatened"", with ""20,000 to 30,000 active users"". UNESCO classifies Gaelic as ""definitely endangered"". There are no known living monolingual Gaelic speakers.

There are some parts of Scotland, largely in the Highlands and Islands, where Gaelic is still the primary language of communication and is the language of choice in both primary and high schools. Around half of Scotland's local authority areas have at least one school where Gaelic is the primary language."

"Debt monetisation is the financing of government spending by the central bank. The central bank buys government bonds and either cancels them, or similarly, promises to roll the debt over indefinitely. Either way, the result would be the creation of money at no direct cost to the government.

Alternative ways of financing a deficit include - but are not limited to - issuing new bonds, borrowing money from external actors, and liquidating other assets."

A “saviour sibling” is a child who is born and selected specifically from a range of embryos in order to provide matching tissue to an older sibling requiring a stem cell transplant. Upon birth, umbilical cord blood is taken and used for the transplant.

To be spiritually fluid means to have the experience of being shaped by or maintaining bonds to more than one spiritual or religious community at the same time. To illustrate an example, many Japanese people go in droves to Shinto shrines during New Year, learn morality based on Confucianism, host Christian weddings, and die in Buddhist temples.