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  • This House would legalise paternity tests in France.

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    Since 1994, France has prohibited paternity tests except for exceptional court-ordered tests (e.g. to resolve immigration or inheritance disputes). The penalty for unauthorised use is up to a year in prison and a fine of €15,000. This includes tests performed by laboratories in other countries. According to polling, approximately one in two French men and one in three French women have engaged in infidelity.

    Cambridge IV 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-11-15

  • This house believes that courts should defer decisions on custodial rights to individuals who have successfully proven that their spouse is at fault in fault-divorce cases.

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    An at-fault divorce, also known as a fault-based divorce, is a divorce that occurs when one spouse proves that the other spouse's actions caused the marriage to end. Fault grounds for divorce vary by state, but some common examples include: Adultery, Cruelty, Abandonment, Substance abuse, Felony conviction, Bigamy, and Mental incapacitation or illness.

    2024 CUDS YUU KNC · Round 2 · 2024-11-15

  • This house, as a child living in the developed world in the 21st century, yearns for the mines

    Infoslide

    According to the world bank, the incidence of child labour decreased from 25% to 10% between 1960 and 2003.

    CP Panda 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-11-12

  • This house would allow medical decisions about children to be made by health professionals without consent from their legal guardian.

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    Under the current legal framework, consent from a legal guardian is required for medical decisions involving minors. Healthcare professionals need approval before administering treatment to a child.

    LSARIC Inter University Debating Championship 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-11-10

  • This house would raise your child religious.

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    You are a first-time parent awaiting the birth of your first child. You live in a Western Liberal Democracy where the majority of people follow the same Abrahamic religion (though not strictly). You were raised in this religious tradition.

    Oxford WGM 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-11-08

  • This house, as the feminist movement, would strongly advocate for the widespread legalisation and installation of baby hatches in jurisdictions where abortion is illegal

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    A ‘baby hatch’ is a place where people can abandon their babies anonymously. They are typically installed in hospitals, churches, social service centers, etc.

    Kumamoto North East Asia Debating Championship 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-11-08

  • This House, as the parent of minority children, would raise their children to regard negative life outcomes (i.e. losses at a competition, rejection from a university, etc.) as a product of personal failure rather than resulting from systemic discrimination

    BDC-NSU Pro Ams 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-11-07

  • This House prefers apolitical children's entertainment (e.g., universal messages of kindness and empathy in Dora the Explorer and The Powerpuff Girls) as opposed to political children's entertainment (e.g., environmentalism in The Lorax, allegories for racism through the speciesism in Zootopia)

    BDC-NSU Pro Ams 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-11-07

  • This House supports the unschooling movement.

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    The Unschooling movement offers a critical perspective on traditional child and adolescent education, mainly adopted in countries with a high Human Development Index (HDI). Unlike homeschooling, which still follows curricula and assessments, unschooling rejects standardized tests and content, allowing the child to lead their own learning with parental support, prioritizing personal choices and interests over rigid rules and fixed structures.

    Condeb ProAM 2024 · Quarterfinals · 2024-11-03

  • This house opposes children's media centred around dark themes* (e.g. illness, death, depression) *such as Bridge to Terabithia, Coraline, Coco

    LSE IV 2024 · Novice Finals · 2024-11-02

  • This house would ban the use of generative AI at schools

    Infoslide

    Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) is a type of computer program that can create new things, like writing stories, drawing pictures, or making music, by learning from examples. It uses patterns it has seen before to come up with something new.

    Dulwich Schools 2024 · Novice Finals · 2024-10-26

  • This house would ban adoption matching

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    Adoption matching is an adoption process in which prospective adoptive parents pay an adoption agency to find a child or family that matches their specific preferences before the birth of the child (eg gender of child, ethnic background of child, socioeconomic background of parents, etc).

    SSDC Bogwall Novices 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-10-26

  • This House Believes that national legislatures should be made up of representatives of different age groups, rather than geographical area (i.e. their constituency)

    England BP 2024 · Bronze Finals · 2024-10-26