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CEO of Babies in Business Solutions and founder of the Parenting in the Workplace Institute
Carla Moquin
CEO of Babies in Business Solutions and founder of the Parenting in the Workplace Institute
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August 11, 2013
I was never able to take more than four weeks off work after the births of my children. My husband filed for divorce a week after the birth of our third daughter. Two weeks later, I moved on my own with our children from Utah to Massachusetts, where my soon-to-be-ex-husband was living for work. In order to support my family, I had no alternative but to start full-time temp work a week after the move. With the 1.5-hour commute into Boston, I was away from my children for 13 hours a day, five days a week, for the next two months. Trying to successfully breastfeed meant pumping in bathrooms. I...
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November 9, 2012
The Dismal Reality of Today New parents—let’s call them Julie and Brad—just had their first baby, a little girl they named Samantha. Julie was only able to take 6 weeks off from her job before her disability insurance and accumulated vacation pay ran out. A few months before their baby’s birth, they started researching day care facilities and were shocked to discover that it would cost more than $1,000 a month for full-time infant care. This was more than half of Julie’s take-home pay, but they needed her income, so quitting her job wasn’t an option. Scott was only able to take a week off...
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June 7, 2011
More than 150 companies have discovered that enforced separation of parents from their newborns when they return to work is no longer necessary. These organizations have hosted an astonishing 1,800 babies over the years and have seen consistent benefits from allowing babies at work, including skyrocketing morale, increased teamwork, higher retention rates, and extremely loyal employees and clients. The Parenting in the Workplace Institute (PIWI) has been locating and researching baby-inclusive organizations for the past five years. We have assisted more than 20 organizations to start...
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August 31, 2010
The Parenting in the Workplace Institute ( PIWI ) has a vision of a world in which interacting with babies is just part of a regular day at the office. For nearly 150 confirmed businesses and more than 1,600 babies, this world is already a vivid and enchanting reality. Will you help our Institute and MomsRising to bring this reality to thousands of other businesses and millions of other families? We are prepared to enable a dramatic expansion of this world in which babies are welcome to come with their mothers or fathers to work every day and parents care for their children while doing their...
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September 9, 2008
Today's New York Times has a front-page article discussing Sarah Palin's combination of political career and motherhood, describing how she regularly carried her son Trig in a sling to hearing
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February 19, 2008
When it comes to open, flexible work options such as those MomsRising.org is working to achieve, the term "family-friendly" could more accurately be labeled "human-friendly." People in every conceivable living arrangement desire work that takes into account their individuality, their dreams, and their responsibilities outside of their jobs.
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