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Culture Contrasts: Norway's Support of Working Families

Melanie Coffee | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Parental Leave, Maternity Leave, Working Mothers, Motherhood, Norway, Paternity Leave, Save the Children, Parenthood, Parents News

In the race to be bigger, faster, stronger, we've lost sight of what makes us better: Time with each other.

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Work and Family, Culture and Policy: What Works

Mary Curlew | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: National Work and Family Month, Working Mothers, Parental Leave, Work-Life Balance, Working Parents, Working Fathers, Work Family, Parents News

From the aging population and the need for work-life balance for both genders, to the struggles of the working class to adapt to a weak economy, culture is part and parcel of the top five issues affecting working families today.

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Memo to CEOs: Show Some Balls

Dana H. Glazer | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Parental Leave, Dad, Fatherhood, Corporate America, Ceos, Fathers, Corporations, Parenting, Parents-Dads, Business News

There's an unspoken rule in corporate America for dads when it comes to parental leave policy or anything that hints at real work/family balance: use at your own career peril.

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Paid Parental Leave Lacking In U.S.

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 11.17.2011

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NEW YORK — Americans often take pride in ways their nation differs from others. But one distinction – lack of a nationwide policy of paid ...

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The U.S. Needs Paid Parental and Pregnancy Leave

Brian Gresko | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Parental Leave, Paid Parental Leave, Working Mothers, Parenting, Pregnancy Leave, Parental Leave US, Working Moms, Healthy Living News

The odds are against mothers having as successful a career as non-mothers. The United States is the only wealthy nation that does not offer parental leave.

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If Companies Really Mean Business on Work and Family Issues...

Dr. Jody Heymann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Work Family Policy, Parental Leave, Public Policy, Congress, Michelle Obama, Family, Breastfeeding, Workplace Policy, Pregnancy, Motherhood, Paid Sick Leave, Barack Obama, Paid Leave, Mothering, New Mothers, Business News

The United States is exceptional when it comes to workplace policy -- and not in a way that benefits American women, men or companies.

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Tiger Should Take More Than "Indefinite" Leave, He Should Take Swedish Parental Leave

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Parental Leave, Golf, Sweden, Tiger Woods, Elin Nordegren, Fatherhood, Socialism, Elin Nordegren's Mother, Fathers, Tiger Woods Mistress, Tiger Woods Affair, Indefinitie Leave, Tiger Woods Scandal, Sports News

Tiger would do well here in Sweden. For Swedes' sense of privacy and reserve far outstrips their distaste of all things porn and sleaze.

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The U.S. Lets Families Down

Janet Walsh | Posted 05.25.2011

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Of all the countries surveyed in a new book, 177 offer paid leave for new mothers. Only four guaranteed no paid family leave, and the United States is one of them.

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Providing Parental Leave Benefits Invests in Federal Working Families

Rep. Edolphus Towns | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Working Families, Edolphus Towns, Parental-Leave, Carolyn Maloney, Federal Workforce, Politics News

As new parents, federal workers are forced to decide between staying home with their children without pay or return to work early. We believe this is a choice federal workers should not have to make.

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Peaceful Revolution: Another Blow to Women

Debra L. Ness | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, US Supreme Court, Retirement Savings, Workplace Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, Obama Administration, Pregnancy, Parental-Leave, Healthy Living News

30 years after our nation outlawed discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, so many women -- and women of color in particular -- are still experiencing it in serious ways.

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Men Are Idiots to Not Fight for Paternity Leave

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Parental Leave, Fear, Sweden, The Doctors TV Show, Baseball, Dr. Phil, Maternity Leave, San Francisco Giants, Travis Stork, Buffalo Bills, Welfare State, Paternity Leave, Naps, Nba, Fatherhood, Babies, Healthy Living News

It's really about the lifestyle, the pace. It is all about naps. When, as a father of small children, do you get to nap anymore? I was home for only six months. And I got to nap almost every day.

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