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From: "Human Potential & Development."
Split Justification: Development fundamentally involves both our inner landscape (**Internal World**) and our interaction with everything outside us (**External World**). (Ref: Subject-Object Distinction)..
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From: "External World (Interaction)"
Split Justification: All external interactions fundamentally involve either other human beings (social, cultural, relational, political) or the non-human aspects of existence (physical environment, objects, technology, natural world). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive.
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From: "Interaction with Humans"
Split Justification: All human interaction can be fundamentally categorized by its primary focus: either on the direct connection and relationship between specific individuals (from intimate bonds to fleeting encounters), or on the individual's engagement within and navigation of larger organized human collectives, their rules, roles, and systems. This dichotomy provides a comprehensive and distinct division between person-to-person dynamics and person-to-society dynamics.
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From: "Personal Relationships"
Split Justification: Personal relationships can be fundamentally divided based on whether their primary origin is an unchosen, inherent bond (such as family or blood ties) or a volitional, chosen connection based on mutual interests, affection, or shared values. This dichotomy accounts for all personal bonds.
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From: "Kinship and Familial Relationships"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between family relationships primarily established through shared ancestry or bloodlines (kinship by descent) and those formed through marriage, adoption, or other social and legal compacts (kinship by alliance). This provides a mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive division for all forms of inherent and familial bonds.
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From: "Kinship by Alliance"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between alliances that establish a spousal or domestic partnership between adults (e.g., marriage, civil unions) and those that establish a parental or guardianship role for an adult towards a child (e.g., adoption, foster care). These two categories are mutually exclusive, as a single alliance compact cannot simultaneously be both an adult partnership and a new parent-child bond, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all forms of kinship established through formal compacts.
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From: "Alliances Establishing Parental/Guardian Roles"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between alliances that establish a new, permanent parent-child relationship with the intention of fully integrating the child into a new family unit (e.g., adoption), and those that establish a temporary or transitional guardianship role, providing care for a child while a more permanent solution is pursued, often with an aim for reunification or placement elsewhere (e.g., foster care, temporary guardianship). These two categories are mutually exclusive as an alliance cannot simultaneously be both permanently integrating and primarily temporary/transitional, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all forms of alliances establishing parental or guardian roles.
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From: "Alliances for Temporary or Transitional Guardianship"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between temporary alliances whose primary objective is to facilitate the child's return and integration into their original family unit (reunification) and those whose primary objective is to secure a new, different permanent living arrangement for the child, such as adoption by a new family or preparation for independent living. These two goals represent mutually exclusive primary aims for any given temporary guardianship and comprehensively cover all potential long-term permanent solutions for children under such care.
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From: "Alliances with Reunification as Primary Goal"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between alliances whose primary goal is the child's reintegration into the care of their original primary caregivers (typically biological or legal parents) and those whose primary goal is reintegration with other members of their original family network (extended kin, such as grandparents, aunts/uncles, or adult siblings). These categories are mutually exclusive, as the primary reunification target for any given alliance will be one or the other, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all potential original family members involved in reunification efforts.
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From: "Alliances for Reunification with Primary Caregivers"
Split Justification: ** This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between alliances where the primary caregivers are present, known, and actively participating in the reunification plan, and those where the primary caregivers are either physically absent, their whereabouts are unknown, or they are present but unwilling or unable to actively engage in the reunification process. This provides a mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive division based on the caregivers' level of involvement and accessibility.
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From: "Alliances for Reunification with Disengaged or Unreachable Primary Caregivers"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between alliances where the primary barrier to reunification is the physical absence or unknown whereabouts of the caregivers (unreachable) and those where the caregivers are physically present but are unwilling or unable to actively participate in the reunification process (disengaged). These two categories are mutually exclusive, as a caregiver cannot simultaneously be both unreachable and present, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all scenarios described in the parent node's definition of "disengaged or unreachable".
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From: "Alliances for Reunification with Unreachable Primary Caregivers"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between situations where the primary caregivers' physical location is genuinely unknown despite efforts to locate them, and those where their location is known but their circumstances (e.g., legal incarceration, severe medical incapacitation, international barriers, or protective orders) make direct engagement or reunification efforts practically or legally impossible. These two categories are mutually exclusive, as whereabouts are either unknown or known, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all forms of primary caregiver unreachability.
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Topic: "Alliances for Reunification with Caregivers in Known Inaccessible Circumstances" (W6768)