desistance
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Rather, they use the threat of certain but nonsevere punishments to encourage people to find their own paths to desistance.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2021
The idea that many trans kids will grow out of it is referred to in research as desistance.
From The Verge ● Jul. 30, 2021
In three of the studies, participants who didn’t follow up with the researchers in adolescence or adulthood were assumed to be desistant, again inaccurately raising the desistance percentage.
From The Verge ● Jul. 30, 2021
It’s a metric inconsistent with what we know about the rocky reality of desistance.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2019
Not that mental activity which is spontaneous and enjoyable does the mischief; but that which is persevered in after a hot or aching head commands desistance.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
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