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    Sexism, Misandry, and Male Bashing

    MARCH 13, 2013 6:42AM

    By Mary Joan Koch


    Topics: home health aides, fathers, childcare, male bashing, misandry, sexism

    • 1 Ratings
    • 533 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Nannies from Hell, and Heaven

    OCTOBER 31, 2012 1:03AM

    By divorcedpauline


    Topics: working parents, babysitting, childcare, nannies, krim family, krim nanny, krim

    • Editor's Pick
    • 28 Ratings
    • 3482 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    The Great Recession: Now It's Personal

    JANUARY 12, 2012 12:20PM

    By Cedar Burnett


    Topics: childcare, healthcare, ulcerative colitis, chronic illness, anxiety, money, middle class, recession, economy

    • 1 Ratings
    • 457 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Week 31.5: The Myth of the Stay-At-Home Mom

    OCTOBER 20, 2011 9:34PM

    By notoriouslymandy


    Topics: misconceptions, childcare, income, employment, motherhood, family

    • 0 Ratings
    • 144 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Let's have kids.... because

    JULY 18, 2011 5:22AM

    By TUB THUMPER


    Topics: kids, life, children, childcare, selfish, family, procreation, belief/religion, economy, environment

    • 0 Ratings
    • 2428 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Rent-a-Grandma: Discuss

    JUNE 8, 2011 12:33AM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: traditional family roles, gerontology, cultural radar scanning, attention economy, cultural trends, cultural cacophony, cultural radar, age discrimination, can markets be bad? family values, danagram, daniel rigney, pet-sitting, rent-a-grandpa, prank call, casey stegall, fox business, fox news, eldercare, child care, childcare, domestic services, entrepreneurial, franchising+childcare, good help is so hard to find, domestic help, domestic staffing needs, rollout, grandma industry, rent-a-grandma, too gay?, too muslim?, rent-a-grandma, open+call, feminism, economy, business, news, health, gay/lesbian, books, clean room

    • 0 Ratings
    • 2015 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    High school for teen moms doesn't encourage pregnancy

    JULY 19, 2010 12:54PM

    By Cathy Wilson


    Topics: penance, pregnancy and punishment, childcare, baby high, mtv, westport t.a.p.p., high school, education, teen pregnancy

    • 6 Ratings
    • 441 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    "Officially Official," or "A Woman's Gotta Do..."

    MAY 12, 2010 9:49PM

    By Eva T. Made Vaudeville


    Topics: theology; tv, sugar, organics, officialdom, media, jobs, degrees, craigslist, childcare

    • 3 Ratings
    • 502 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Are Children and Elders Better Off?

    MAY 14, 2012 3:56PM

    By Mary Joan Koch


    Topics: exploitation of wome, nannies, home health aides, childcare, elder care, women'a liberation, feminism

    • 0 Ratings
    • 191 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    No Sleep Tonight

    FEBRUARY 24, 2010 10:43PM

    By Colleen Shields


    Topics: momtastics, shields, work at home, childcare, infant, help, stop, crying baby, motherhood, techniques, tools, tips, mothers, moms

    • 0 Ratings
    • 133 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The Nanny Diaries, Beginning

    DECEMBER 21, 2009 6:51PM

    By Stephen Farquhar


    Topics: workplace psychoness, childcare, family

    • 1 Ratings
    • 1284 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Sibling Rivalry

    DECEMBER 3, 2009 11:39AM

    By Linda Shiue


    Topics: childcare, sibling rivalry, family

    • 0 Ratings
    • 338 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Diane Vacca: On the Shriver Report

    OCTOBER 21, 2009 8:16AM

    By Women's Voices for Change


    Topics: maria shriver, employment, diane vacca, the shriver report, women in the workforce, equal pay, hilda solis, department of labor, legal, political, heather boushey, washington, childcare, eldercare, working mothers, stay at home moms

    • 0 Ratings
    • 180 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Walk home from school statement of freedom

    OCTOBER 3, 2009 4:38PM

    By Lisa Roose-Church


    Topics: parents, parenting, family, health & safety, childcare

    • 8 Ratings
    • 917 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Fallback Female Labor: Childcare and Sex Work (part 2)

    JULY 31, 2009 2:22PM

    By Cassandra Berg


    Topics: japan, hostesses, bar hostess, sex work, inaka, childcare, culture, japanese

    • 8 Ratings
    • 930 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Fallback Female Labor: Childcare and Sex Work (Part 1)

    JULY 24, 2009 5:06PM

    By Cassandra Berg


    Topics: childcare, education, daycare, hoikuen, japan, unemployment, recession, sex work, jet, alt

    • 4 Ratings
    • 541 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Goodbye Babies, Goodbye

    MAY 18, 2009 9:50PM

    By LiberationMama


    Topics: heartache, saying goodbye, motherhood, family, childcare, babysitting, children, nanny

    • 2 Ratings
    • 733 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    MIDLIFE CRISIS LIT

    APRIL 14, 2009 10:09AM

    By Donald Brown


    Topics: books, saul bellow, herzog, '60s lit, midlife crisis, jewish literature, divorce, childcare, massachusetts, chicago, re-reading, humanism, russian literature, dostoevsky, minority literature, women in fiction

    • 8 Ratings
    • 1039 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    A terrible Mother is born......

    FEBRUARY 16, 2009 1:11PM

    By psychomama


    Topics: motherhood, multiple births, ivf, iui, fertility, woman, child, childcare, choice

    • 2 Ratings
    • 618 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Good Question

    AUGUST 11, 2008 3:37PM

    By AmyFuji


    Topics: family, childcare, teaching, society, sexism

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