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Lara Bazelon on Why Having a Career is Good for Your Kids

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Mothering Is Not a Good Idea, Caroline

Moms are not supported in the way that they need to be a hundred %. It is a scandal in this country what we have done to working parents, and particular working mothers who are supposed to do the lion's share of the labor at home. The fact that we have no subsidized child care,. That basically what we're being told is the government is not coming to save you, working mothers. While every other industrialized country has paid matern and paternity leave, has decent child hair options. One upside of the pandemic was that it fundamentally changed the work landscape for many women.

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