Fraternization, or "to become like brothers or family members," is a term that carries within it the connotation of impropriety in terms of morals, ethics, social expectations and professionalism. Militaries typically prohibit officers and enlisted ranks from personally associating outside of their professional duties and orders, perhaps to avoid accusations of favoritism, which would challenge military discipline; excessively familiar relationships between officers of different ranks may also be considered fraternization, especially when between officers in the same chain of command; and another reason involves avoidance of spreading military top secrets, a crime that carries legal charges (see United States military law) under treason or sedition in extreme cases. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... Brothers is either: The plural of brother Brothers, Oregon Wagga Brothers Rugby League Football Club The feeling that men should Treat_one_another_as_brothers This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A family in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family consists of a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by analogous or comparable relationships — including domestic partnership, cohabitation, adoption, surname and (in some cases) ownership (as occurred in the... Morality is a complex of principles based on cultural, religious, and philosophical concepts and beliefs, by which an individual determines whether his or her actions are right or wrong. ... Ethics (from the Ancient Greek Ä“thikos, the adjective of Ä“thos custom, habit), a major branch of philosophy, including genetics is the study of values and customs of a person or group. ... A profession is a specialized work function within society, generally performed by a professional. ... Militaries are composed of two main types of personnel: enlisted men and women and officers. ... In military service, an enlisted rank is generally any rating below that of a commissioned officer. ... A professional can be either a person in a profession (certain types of skilled work requiring formal training / education) or in sports (a sportsman / sportwoman doing sports for payment). ... Elitism is a belief or attitude that an elite— a selected group of persons whose personal abilities, specialized training or other attributes place them at the top of any field (see below)— are the people whose views on a matter are to be taken most seriously, or who... Discipline is any training intended to produce a specific character or pattern of behaviour, especially training that produces moral, physical, or mental development in a particular direction. ... This article deals with the military concept. ... Military law is a distinct legal system to which members of armed forces are subject. ... Traitor redirects here. ... Sedition is a term of law to refer to covert conduct such as speech and organization that is deemed by the legal authority as tending toward insurrection against the established order. ...

Fraternization outside the military

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Other professions and public places also prohibit fraternization. Professional and college sports teams in North America had enacted anti-fraternization policies between athletes and cheerleaders, only one known professional team, the American football Oakland Raiders of the NFL, allows permitted casual contacts with player and cheerleader. The reasons are obvious to prevent problems between players and cheerleaders during game mode, and the consequences intensifies whenever the athlete is married while courting his team cheerleader. To avoid a case of adultery by married sports athletes is considered a good idea to regulate fraternization with cheerleaders, whom could be victims of sex crimes (esp. if the advances are unwanted) and legally defined sexual harassment, as well the risk of personal problems between a player and cheerleader may arise to interfere with the sports team. Image File history File links Acap. ... City Oakland, California Other nicknames The Silver and Black, Da Raidahs Team colors Silver and Black Head Coach Lane Kiffin Owner Al Davis General manager Al Davis League/Conference affiliations American Football League (1960–1969) Western Division (1960–1969) National Football League (1970–present) American Football Conference (1970–present) AFC... NFL logo For other uses of the abbreviation NFL, see NFL (disambiguation). ... Adultery is voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a partner other than the lawful spouse. ... Sex crimes are forms of human sexual behavior that are crimes. ... Sexual harassment is harassment or unwelcome attention of a sexual nature. ...

Private for-profit schools may prohibit fraternization between teachers and students, perhaps to prevent the teachers from contracting with the students for private tutoring or perhaps to avoid potential sexual harassment problems. In the early 2000s, the issue on increasing incidents of improper and illegal sexual relations between teachers and students in U.S. public schools has stirred public emotion, then it's feasible for more US states and countries to regulate fraternization between teachers and students to avoid possible sex crime charges, but only when an adult is engaged in sexual activity with minors. There has been controversy surrounds unionized public education teachers may have tenure except if they are convicted, and unable to lose their jobs, even if there was hard evidence of unethical fraternization and illegal activity with students. Students in Rome, Italy. ... A contract is a legally binding exchange of promises or agreement between parties that the law will enforce. ... In British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand universities, a tutor is often but not always a postgraduate student or a lecturer assigned to conduct a seminar for undergraduate students, often known as a tutorial. ... Sexual harassment is harassment or unwelcome attention of a sexual nature. ... A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Look up tenure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Since the 1990s, more business corporations adopted anti-fraternization policies to protect the status of professionalism and improve workplace productivity, as well to combat sexual harassment lawsuits. But critics assume this is done to prevent labor unions if the company has an union-free policy and a reactionary form of political correctness to promote gender "equality," since women's rights and equal rights groups addressed the issue of female co-workers are major targets of sexism and gender harassment starts with open or subliminal forms of discrimination, improper association and unprofessional fraternization. In fact, some U.S. states recognize a superior taking advantage of a co-worker of the opposite sex, if gender was the motive, a hate crime. Wall Street, Manhattan is the location of the New York Stock Exchange and is often used as a symbol for the world of business. ... A corporation (usually known in the United Kingdom and Ireland as a company) is a legal entity (distinct from a natural person) that often has similar rights in law to those of a Civil law systems may refer to corporations as moral persons; they may also go by the name... A profession is a specialized work function within society, generally performed by a professional. ... A lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in order to recover a right, obtain damages for an injury, obtain an injunction to prevent an injury, or obtain a declaratory judgment to prevent future legal disputes. ... A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers... Political correctness is the alteration of language to redress real or alleged injustices and discrimination or to avoid offense. ... The term women’s rights typically refers to freedoms inherently possessed by women and girls of all ages, which may be institutionalized or ignored and/or illegitimately suppressed by law or custom in a particular society. ... The sign of the headquarters of the National Association Opposed To Woman Suffrage Sexism is commonly considered to be discrimination and/or hatred against people based on their sex rather than their individual merits, but can also refer to any and all systemic differentiations based on the sex of the... A Jewish cemetery in France after being defaced by Neo-Nazis. ...

Some U.S. states through court case decisions began to regulate and allow business the legal right to restrict co-employees from fraternizing with each other, a challenge to the individual's freedom of association. In the U.S. Bill of Rights under the title freedom of religion and state laws, the person only has the right of association that workplaces must abide (when anti-fraternization policies are exempt) if the two co-workers/persons share the same religious denomination and can freely meet in a church or for worship services. These policies accelerated in prevalence in the 1990s in part of threats of ligitation and widespread acceptance of anti-fraternization mores in the workplace. A bill of rights is a list or summary of which is considered important and essential by a group of people. ... The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen guarantees freedom of religion, as long as religious activities do not infringe on public order in ways detrimental to society. ...

Workplace romance is a hot topic in recent years, when the majority of U.S. corporations restrict or prohibit any casual romantic affair between co-workers of the opposite and same sex, and co-workers must agree to company policy in their contracts whenever they are hired. These anti-romance and fraternization policies stated if any co-worker(s) are found in "improper" romantic or sexual affairs, the company has the right to discipline or terminate one or both of them, and some state laws actually allow or tolerate companies in order to protect businesses as some romantic affairs causes friction, declined productivity, and civil rights violations of any co-worker in case they are victimized from a worksite fraternal relationship. Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ...

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