Sentences with phrase «widespread public misconception»

There is also a widespread public misconception about the dogs bred for meat — the myth that these dogs are somehow different from «normal dogs» has fostered a societal indifference to their suffering.

Comment: The legal fiction (aided and abetted by widespread public misconceptions about what constitutes a «parent» under the law) also is responsible for the avalanching trend — contrary to historical jurisprudence and contrary to the relationship - based notion of «family» that underlies the «liberty interest» respected by the U.S. Constitution — to consider unwed nonresident biological sires to be «legal fathers.»