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Where's our dough?

January 27, 2010
According to recent reports, women are increasingly the primary or sole family breadwinner due to the recession [1]. With women still earning only 78 cents on the dollar to their male counterparts [2], you gotta wonder: How are we supposed to win enough bread for our families, when we're not...
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Donna Norton

Helping California's Newcomer Families Helps Us All

January 27, 2010
For as long as I live, I will never forget Maria and her children. She left her home one day while her husband was at work, packed up what she could in her beat-up mini-van, took her children and left. Her first stop was the family service agency in a small city in northern California where I was...
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Vanessa Cajina
Childcare & Early Education

State of the Union: Don't Lose the Family Amidst the Headlines

January 27, 2010
In listening to the political commentators prepare for the State of the Union Address tonight, most of them are telling the President that he must reframe the discussion, have courage, and focus on jobs, jobs, jobs. I think that the President is doing something quite courageous that SADLY may be...
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Ellen Galinsky

WANTED: Moms Who Have Made A Difference in Their Children's Schools

January 27, 2010
Susan Kane, Editor-in-Chief, Parenting magazine In Newport, PA, Cheryl Capozzi was used to seeing her kids reading torn, stained, taped-together old books from their school library. But when her first-grader brought home a mold-covered book falling out of its binding, she decided to do something...
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Susan Kane
Health Care

Capitulating on Health Reform Makes No Sense

January 26, 2010
One of the toughest things about being a mom is that you can’t always make things right in your kids’ lives, nor in the world. The first time I learned this lesson was when my water broke well before my twin boys were supposed to be born. We couldn’t stop them from coming, and they arrived six...
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Jocelyn Guyer

If at first you don't succeed...

January 26, 2010
If my kids wanted to quit something after their first setback, I'd say, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." So what's with Congress? One unexpected election result in Massachusetts, a state that already has universal healthcare, is all it takes for some in Congress to throw up their...
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Donna Norton
Childcare & Early Education

Private Cost, Public Gain

January 26, 2010
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org The U.S. spends very little public money on children, and a great deal of public money on older people. The reason for this has to do with our cultural attitudes towards privacy and the...
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Valerie Young
Paid Family Leave Health Care

Paid leave is a human right

January 25, 2010
Paid parental leave is a human right, one guaranteed by virtually every country. But not the United States! When you gave birth or adopted your kids, did you take leave without pay? How did this affect breastfeeding, your health, your baby’s health, or your family’s finances? How did this affect...
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Janet Walsh

Help Us Pick A Topic For Our Next TeleSeminar!

January 22, 2010
I hope you all have had a great week. At S.T.O.P.- Safe Tables Our Priority (S.T.O.P.) , we sponsor call-in TeleSeminars with food safety experts on interesting topics several times throughout the year. We’re planning our Spring 2010 call now and want to know which food poisoning and food safety...
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Donna Rosenbaum
Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

Wake Up! This Is the Reality of Work/Life for American Families

January 21, 2010
We work long hours. We work multiple jobs. We can barely afford healthcare, or we’re doing without. We’re stitching together childcare, or we’re sending our kids to school with H1N1. We exert ourselves to be good spouses, sons and daughters, parents, members of our community, friends - in snatched...
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Gloria Pan

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