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Report Finds Individualistic Culture Harms Kids—Because It Leads To Working Moms
A three-year study by a British charity called the Children’s Group has uncovered some unsurprising problems with individualistic culture. The report, called A Good Childhood, found that children are suffering from “a belief among adults that the prime duty of the individual is to make the most of their [sic] own life, rather than contribute...
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2009 Predictions: Working Wonder Women Will Rule!
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When Every Day is Bring Your Kid to Work Day
Forget maternity leave. Don't bother with daycare. Just bring your children to the office with you every day.That's a reality for several parents described in this New York Times story, including the head of a Manhattan investment boutique who has equipped her daughter with a playroom just outside her office where the girl can spend the day...
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Balancing Work and Parenting–When You’re a Campaign Reporter
Anyone who has ever felt guilty about missing a child's bedtime because of work will benefit from Jodi Kantor's reminiscences on covering the presidential campaign during the first two years of her daughter's life.Kantor's honesty about her own guilt--and sometimes lack thereof--over her demanding work life offers a refreshing look at...
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The Future Of Work?
Working from home, in your own time, cocooned from the intrigues of office politics — it sounds too good to be true, right? But more and more workers are doing just that. The workplace is being re-defined as parents — particularly mothers — refuse to compete in the soul-zapping, inflexible merry-go-round of corporate life. They'r...
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It’s All Working Mothers’ Fault, Again
When the news of this survey first came through, I have to admit I ignored it because it freaked me out a little too much. Last week, University of North Carolina economist Christopher Ruhm published a study showing that kids from high-socioeconomic-status families suffer when their mums work outside the home. At ages 10 and 11, they perform more...
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