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In a statement, the family of one of the three boys assaulted by Millar said: "Even though he was mistreated badly, he thought it was the norm."

Illegitimate and homosexual, he was doubly outside the era’s accepted social norms.

At existing plants, younger folks have injected innovation into longstanding operation norms, improving safety and efficiency.

However, that assumes that members of political parties respect the norms of constitutional government and display greater loyalty to the prerogatives of the branches of government in which they serve than their political party.

There is a generational component to that, along with the familiar trends of personal economics meaning that people have greater autonomy to move away from the accepted norms in their communities.