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It Takes Time

June 12, 2013
I woke up with a startle. It was 1:30 AM and my wife was telling me we needed to go. It was time to have the baby. Luckily, our “nesting phase” had kicked in the previous weekend so we were already packed in anticipation of the big day. Luggage full of extra clothes, baby outfits, books, snacks,...
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Brady Bogenreif
Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work Family Economic Security

Odd Man Out. Why isn’t anyone else taking paternity leave?

June 12, 2013
Something strange happens when I wear the baby. I slip into a black carrier, strap the baby in, make sure she’s snug, put a hat over her tiny head, then head out. A woman with a baby on her hip? So common most people wouldn’t notice. But a man, by himself, with a baby on his chest, bobbing and...
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Matt Pusateri
Family Economic Security

No Shame in Feeding Your Children Using Food Stamps

June 11, 2013
This article originally appeared in Mamiverse . I was at the supermarket checkout line when the cashier asked me if I wanted to make a donation for the needy. I would have liked to, but instead, I flashed my food stamps card and shook my head, saying: “I can’t. This time, I’m the needy.” The poor...
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Lorraine C. Ladish
Gun Safety Blog Carnivals

Newtown Action Alliance Honors Our Victims by Demanding Change

June 11, 2013
Newtown is mostly quiet again now, especially in the tiny business center of Sandy Hook - just around the corner from the site where our shuttered elementary school still stands. You can’t see Sandy Hook School from the road, and the driveway remains closed and guarded. But people all around our...
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Miranda Pacchiana
Gun Safety Blog Carnivals

Will Mothers Be the Champions of Gun Control?

June 11, 2013
This story originally appeared in Mamiverse . Two months have passed since the Newtown tragedy, and while most of us are able to continue our lives as usual after our initial shock, disbelief and horror, the parents of the 20 children killed that day cannot. The families of the teachers killed that...
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Lorraine C. Ladish
Gun Safety Blog Carnivals

Is Gun Safety Really Better in the U.S. Compared to South America?

June 11, 2013
On December 14, 2012 innocent children and educators were victims of Adam Lanza, a mentally disturbed man who had easy access to guns and ammunition that should only be accessible to the military; no civilian should have access to this type of artillery. The United States' gun laws are too lax, and...
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Diana Limongi
Gun Safety Blog Carnivals

The Gruesome Combination of Guns and Intimate Partner Violence

June 11, 2013
Tallying up kids killed with guns was not how I’d planned to spend my morning. Yet there I was, reading through a Mayors Against Illegal Guns report on mass shootings, counting the number of kids killed in domestic-violence related shootings between January 2009 and January 2013. Part-way through,...
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Lauren Weiss
Gun Safety Blog Carnivals

Stemming Gun Violence: A Window of Opportunity

June 11, 2013
On the morning of December 14, 2012, just 6 months ago, I was rounding on newborn babies in the hospital. Zipping from room to room I checked on swaddled babies sleeping in the crook of their exhausted mothers' arms. For a brief moment I glanced at my twitter feed and stood stunned as news trickled...
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Ricky Y. Choi, MD, MPH
Gun Safety

Make Mass Shootings a Memory

June 11, 2013
There are days that are seared into our communal memory. The day JFK was shot. September 11, 2001. But horrifically now our collective memories mark anniversaries of mass shootings. We add them to the calendars in our minds and struggle to get past them. June 14 is the six-month anniversary of...
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Gail Yamner
Gun Safety Blog Carnivals

Why Women Should Care about Expanding Background Checks

June 11, 2013
When Zina Haughton obtained a restraining order that prohibited her physically abusive husband from purchasing a gun, she thought she was safe. But despite the court order, Mr. Haughton purchased a gun from an online private seller. Not long after, Mr. Haughton shot and murdered Zina and two of her...
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Rebecca Silverman

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