The Labor Of Love (Throwback) : Throughline

1 month, 4 weeks ago

My 8-Year-Old Was Suffering From Cancer. To Keep Her Alive, I Made An Unthinkable Choice.

The author's daughter, Carolyn, during a hospital stay in Philadelphia in 2020. Courtesy of Elizabeth Austin While my 8-year-old daughter puked yellow goo into a hospital bedpan, I couldn’t be a doting mother bent over her shivering body, rubbing soothing circles over her back. As a single parent of two kids and our household’s sole income provider in a state …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

This Woman Rattled Off All The Things She Won't Do For Her Husband, And It's Possibly The Best Thing I've Seen On The Internet In A While

Huff Post

Blend Images - Inti St Clair / Getty Images/Tetra images RF "The data shows that men spend less time on housework and childcare, more time at paid work, and on hobbies/relaxation. I think for many women, this is frustrating, and I believe the pandemic exacerbated these issues and brought them to light even more," Paige continued. I do not just …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Q&A: Jessica Calarco on ‘how women became America’s safety net’

Associated Press

CHICAGO — Compared with its economic peers, the United States lacks social safety net programs like sick time, vacation time and health care. She is also the author of “Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net,” published last month. Other countries, like France, used this as a moment to completely restructure their economies, to build national permanent child …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Parenting: Do new parents need to freak out about their sons? Not like this.

Slate

I don’t have one. She describes with poignancy what a trial it can be to host a screen-free playdate when the boys involved end up “wandering around aimlessly, asking repeatedly when they can next play video games.” So many of the concerns throughout this book—loneliness, suicidality, alienation—seem as if they could bring readers of BoyMom together with the many conservative …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Millennial Moms Don't Have It All, They Just Do It All

Huff Post

I was settling in for an interview over Zoom when I glanced at my baby monitor and saw it: the unmistakable wiggle of a toddler who’d pooped himself awake from a nap. Surely, I often thought to myself, this isn’t what Helen Gurley Brown had in mind when she published “Having It All,” her famed book of advice on balancing …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

How Moms Became Our Social Safety Net

Slate

On this episode: Zak sits down with Jessica Calarco, whose new book – Holding It Together – is out tomorrow. The two walk through the ways in which women, and especially mothers, replace a social safety net in the United States… and, more importantly, why it doesn’t have to be this way. We also dole out a round of recommendations …

Slate Plus

7 months, 1 week ago

Does WFH benefit working mothers?

The Hindu

Harrington, Emma and Matthew Kahn, “Has the Rise of Work-from-Home Reduced the Motherhood Penalty in the Labour Market?”, University of Virginia Working paper, October 2023 A significant number of working women leave the workforce after they become pregnant as they focus their efforts on raising a family. In “Has the Rise of Work-from-Home Reduced the Motherhood Penalty in the Labour …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Are American moms all unhappy? I’m not, but here’s why I hesitate to say so.

Slate

I recently published a book about caregiving that is, in part, a rigorously researched explanation of why I love motherhood, despite living in a country that gives parents so little support. One might imagine that constructing and then promoting my arguments as to why caring for others can be meaningful and emotionally enriching, even when it’s challenging, may have led …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Modern motherhood is a major challenge and many parents are struggling to cope

Salon

Someone once told me, “parenting has a PR problem in the United States.” To which I responded: does it? Minna Dubin’s book "Mom Rage," recently examined the “hidden crisis of rage” affecting so many American mothers today while Jessica Grose’s book “Screaming on the Inside '' investigated the unsustainability of motherhood in America. “My youngest daughter required open heart surgery …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Mom Guilt Is Real, but So Is Healing

Slate

On this episode: we present two very special segments celebrating the lifelong journey of being a mom. First up: Dr. Lindsay Cavanagh is back for mini therapy sessions with Jamilah, Lucy and Elizabeth — who each share a nagging guilt they have about being a mom. Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] to ask us new questions, …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

These cities raised taxes — for child care. Parents say the free day care ‘changed my life’

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Last summer, Derrika Richard felt stuck. But Richard’s life changed in the fall, when, thanks to a new city-funded program for low-income families called City Seats, she enrolled the three children at Clara’s Little Lambs, a child care center in the Westbank neighborhood of New Orleans. City Seats, she said, “changed my life.” ___ This series on …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

The American Dream is under siege

CNN

New York CNN — The long-rumored recession has been postponed – or perhaps canceled altogether. Courtesy Hana Husković and Carolina Landaverde Photography “I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to buy a home,” Hana said. The one-two punch of high home prices and elevated mortgage rates caused by the Federal Reserve’s war on inflation has made the housing market …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

How motherhood hurts careers

The Economist

Graphic detail The cost of love and labour How motherhood hurts careers A new study measures its impact on women’s employment worldwide “W hen things are shitty we change them”, read a placard held aloft at a “March of the Mummies” protest in Britain in October 2022. Employment gap between women and men* By country, percentage points Total gap Due …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Adult children and breakups: How grieved is a parent allowed to be?

Slate

I could sense the thought hovering, slinking its way sideways like a floater across your field of vision. M’s first real relationship—long-distance during her senior year at college, then blossoming when the pandemic sent her abruptly home without a graduation —had been a good one. Her graduation and her big brother’s wedding had both been canceled in that one grim …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Spice of Life: Confessions of teenager’s working mother’s guilt

Hindustan Times

As a soon-to-be 16-year-old’s mother, I have been introspecting on my role, as also, the lack of skills that this huge charge requires. The dictionary meaning of “mother”, the romanticised filmy version, many wonderful and varied examples within the family and among friends has left me feeling most inadequate. When congratulatory messages and success stories of other teens are shared …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Over 70,000 day-care programs at risk of closure, threatening U.S. women’s workforce gains

LA Times

More than 3 million children may lose their spots at day-care centers after federal child-care funding from the pandemic era expires Sept. 30. “To maintain the labor force participation gains that we’ve made among prime-aged women, we need to ensure that women don’t lose access to child care,” said Sara Estep, associate director of the Women’s Initiative at the Center …

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1 year, 6 months ago

States are rolling back child-labor laws instead of fighting poverty

LA Times

High school freshman girls should not double as cocktail waitresses at night. As more than 10 states have made efforts to roll back child labor laws, that’s just one of the disturbing occupations floated as appropriate work for children. I can’t tell if the rolling back of child labor laws — with disingenuous talk of a “worker shortage” or “providing …

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1 year, 7 months ago

The Case Against Momfluencers

Wired

I own three versions of the OFFLINE by Aerie Wow! Waffle Henley T-shirt, in medium heather gray, marbled blue, and a shade of faded sage green the company calls “earthy vibes.” I don’t usually buy triples of anything, but I was influenced, you see. Like many other moms, I have a favorite “momfluencer.” She’s a sunny neonatal nurse with four …

Mom

2 years, 2 months ago

The women forced to 'choose' self-employment

BBC

The women forced to 'choose' self-employment Getty Images In the US, more women are working for themselves. The biggest contributing factor to whether women moved to self-employment was whether they had primary school-aged children Some of the spike can be attributed to people “reinventing themselves” and their work situations during the pandemic, says Misty L Heggeness, an associate professor at …

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2 years, 7 months ago

In 'Mothercoin', the labor of love transcends borders

NPR

In 'Mothercoin', the labor of love transcends borders Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of Elizabeth Cummins Munoz Courtesy of Elizabeth Cummins Munoz When Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz had her eldest child, in 2000, she started spending a lot of time at the playground. It's interesting – like you said, these are women who, like their mothers, have to leave their …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Mother's Day 2022 Special: Cinematic moms who are real, powerful and breaking stereotypes

India TV News

Mother's Day 2022 Special: Since time unknown, the mother figure in Bollywood is usually one dimensional. This Mother's Day, we recommend titles that depict motherhood from a rare perspective by showing the emotional and circumstantial challenges women have to face while raising their children. Hamid This Yoodlee production and Aijaz Khan directorial portrays the difficulties of a mother who must …

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2 years, 7 months ago

How to value mothering for the hard work that it is : Life Kit : NPR

NPR

Raising kids is hard work. Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, says the shift to thinking of mothering as a verb can help paint a more vivid and accurate picture of the daily work — the thousands of small actions — involved in raising children. My perspective has grown to consider the work of raising children …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Is there really a fair way to divvy up household labor and childcare? Research says it's possible

Salon

This is a tale of many marriages, two popular self-help books, and a bunch of academic research — plus loads and loads of children and laundry. A competitor with the relative resources theory, the "time availability hypothesis" essentially posits that when women and men work an equal number of hours, equality will result. Arnaldur had to care for his much …

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2 years, 10 months ago

I Think I Know Why Men Don’t Talk About Parental Leave

Slate

The past months of activists’ work to get paid leave for parents into President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, and then to defend its presence there, have produced a litany of searing essays from mothers about the postpartum experience. At home, nights went in shifts—my wife waking to pump, then waking me so I could immediately use that supply …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Opinion: The Washington failure that’s making us sick

CNN

Editor’s Note: Molly Dickens, Ph.D., is a stress physiologist and Co-Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit, &Mother. Given the wealth of research linking daily chronic stress to long-term health, it’s worth asking: is our country’s failure to support caregivers making Americans sick? As of this writing, Congress is debating President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan, which includes historic …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Melina Abdullah is showing L.A. how to be accountable to a future we can’t yet see

LA Times

This story is part of Parents Are Cool!, the third issue of Image, which explores the myriad ways in which L.A. parents practice the craft of care. Sometimes I’ll say I’m one of the original members of Black Lives Matter and they’re like, “We are too.” And they are — they were there from the beginning. They don’t want us …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Reshma Saujani's book 'Pay Up' urges support for mothers

The Independent

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3 years, 5 months ago

Reshma Saujani’s book ‘Pay Up’ urges support for mothers

Associated Press

NEW YORK — The founder of the non-profit organization Girls Who Code has a book coming out about helping women who raise children, with suggestions including government aid and a more compassionate workplace. Reshma Saujani’s “Pay Up” will be published in March 2022 by One Signal Publisher/Atria Books. “I wrote ‘Pay Up’ because mothers are tired of being America’s social …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Working women suffer as covid-19 empties classrooms across the world

Live Mint

After a long winter lockdown that included months of homeschooling, Annie Barratt hoped to concentrate on her career. Barratt’s situation is an increasingly common one across the UK, where covid-19 cases are now at their highest since January and many thousands of schools are sending children home into mandatory self-isolation. “This not surprisingly is having a disproportionate impact on not …

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3 years, 9 months ago

The Emotional Weirdness Of Parenting As The World Slowly Opens Up Again

Huff Post

SDI Productions/Getty Parenting during the pandemic has been emotionally draining from the get-go — but there's something about this particular moment that feels especially challenging to wade through. “I do think we’ve reached a real inflection point,” Chelsea Allison, founder and CEO of the maternal wellness startup Motherfigure, told HuffPost. “There’s a light at the end of this ‘pandemic tunnel’ …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Juggling Financial Stress And Caregiving, Parents Are 'Very Not OK' In The Pandemic

NPR

Juggling Financial Stress And Caregiving, Parents Are 'Very Not OK' In The Pandemic Enlarge this image Nicole Xu for NPR Nicole Xu for NPR Back in early spring, Khristan Yates worked as a quality assurance analyst at a marketing company and loved her job. "We're seeing skyrocketing rates of job losses and food insecurity and stress," says Anna Johnson, a …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Child care crisis pushes US mothers out of the labor force

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Angela Wynn had just launched her own project management business, hitting a career stride after years of struggle that began with earning an undergraduate degree as a single mother. Research is increasingly pointing to a retreat of working mothers from the U.S. labor force as the pandemic leaves parents with few child care options and the added …

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