Both practices may be challenged under United States patent laws.
The senators are concerned that these groups' practices may be inflating health costs at taxpayer expense.
The report and the hearing left unclear just how widespread the fraudulent practices may be.
Other practices may be difficult for one set of parents to adopt if neighbouring parents are raising their children differently.
"Although certain practices may be culturally rooted, they have no place in or around a sporting arena or event.
These practices may be representative of activities common in some parts of the world before 15,000 years ago.
Some traditional practices may be difficult for many of us to reconcile with the demands of modern life, such as long-term breastfeeding.
Therefore, I say the judge erred in choosing predacious; Bill Gates's practices may be monopolistic, but to judge them to be savagely animalistic goes overboard.
Patterson, in the essay for the Chronicle, suggested that "cultural values, norms, beliefs, and habitual practices may be easier to change than structural ones".
The book has set off a storm in the profession and raised concern that confidence in legitimate anthropology practices may be undermined.
More research is needed on parenting scale as parenting practices may be sensitive to cultural context.
