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Taking Your Kid to Work Doesn't Always Work

Eva Rodriguez | Posted 04.25.2013 | Parents
Read More: Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, Take Your Kid to Work Day, Day Care Center, Cost of Childcare, Childcare, Day Care, Parents News
Eva Rodriguez

For many of us, Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day is an opportunity to spend time with our children and proudly show them the work we do. But for millions of working families, it's no holiday, as they are forced to bring their children to work because they can't find child care.

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The Hell Of American Day Care

New Republic | JONATHAN COHN | Posted 04.15.2013 | Parents
Read More: Daycare, Kenya Mire, Jessica Tata, Julia Wrigley, National Institute of Child Health Development, Childcare, Kendyll Mire, Joanna Dreby, Juan Carlos Cardenas, Childcare Aware of America, Marcy Whitebook, Day Care, Nancy Cambria, Parents News

Excellent day cares are available, of course, if you have the money to pay for them and the luck to secure a spot. But the overall quality is wildly u...

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Why Write Women's History?

Nancy Rubin Stuart | Posted 05.07.2013 | Women
Read More: Women's History Month, Suburban Women, Working Mothers, Feminist, Lesbian, The New York Times, Day Care, Equal Rights Amendment, Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, Stop the ERA, Surrogate Motherhood, Invitro Fertilization, Roe v. Wade, Bra-Burner, Women's Liberation Movement, Birth Control, Women's Movement, MAKERS: Women Who Make America, Professional Women, Women News
Nancy Rubin Stuart

That social disconnect between the rhetoric of the woman's liberation movement and the realities of suburban life led me to wonder about women across the country who were also beginning to change traditional roles. As a journalist I I had to find out.

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The Least Affordable States For Child Care

Posted 08.29.2012 | Parents
Read More: Parents and the High Cost of Childcare, Child Care Rates, Child Care, Child Care Aware of America, Day Care Costs, Childcare Costs, Most Expensive States for Child Care, Day Care, Parents News

A recent report by Child Care Aware of America confirmed what many parents already know -– child care is expensive. So much so that families in the ...

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Police: Day Care Workers Urged 3-Year-Olds To Fight

Posted 08.21.2012 | Home
Read More: Daycare, Hands of Our Future Daycare, Video, Kids Fight, Child Care, Teacher Told Students to Fight, School Fight, Daycare Centers, Delaware Daycare, Delaware Schools, Students Fight, School Bullying, Day Care, Home News

Authorities suspended a day care center's license and operations, pending a hearing, after three employees allegedly encouraged two 3-year-olds to fig...

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John Celock

Republican Lawmaker: Kindergarten Could Lead To 400 Percent Crime Jump

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 07.03.2012 | Politics
Read More: Bob Kingsbury, Tea Party Movement, Kindergarten Crime, Video, New Hampshire Tea Party, National Education Association, New Hampshire Politics, Slideexpand, Bob Kingsbury New Hampshire, New Hampshire Legislature, Tea Party, Bob Kingsbury Kindergarten, Day Care, Kindergarten, Politics News

A Republican lawmaker in New Hampshire explained his controversial statement last week that kindergarten leads to higher crime was based on statistics...

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LOC's 'Little Scholars' Child Care Gets 2nd Bomb Threat

| Posted 03.07.2012 | DC
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By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff A second bomb threat has been made against the Library of Congress' child care center. According to an email obt...

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Moms, Writing, and Guilt: Don't Get in Your Own Way

Holly Robinson | Posted 01.14.2012 | Books
Read More: Writers' Retreats, Grace Paley, Freelancing, Working Mothers, Ladies' Home Journal, Fiction, Time to Write, Motherhood, Parents, Essays, Writers Retreats, Day Care, How to Make a Living as a Writer, Writing First Novel, Books News
Holly Robinson

Writing, alas, is not that exciting, seen from the outside, and there's no simple recipe for getting it done -- especially if you're a mother.

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50 Arrested In Massive Day Care Drug Bust

Posted 12.21.2011 | New York
Read More: Drug Bust, Lefrak City, Nypd, Police, Oxycontin, Drugs, NY Crime, Day Care, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, New York News

After a seven month undercover investigation, police arrested nearly 50 people in a drug bust at LeFrak City in Queens. NBC reports on the arrests...

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Who Stands for Children and the Aged?

Alan Singer | Posted 06.14.2011 | New York
Read More: Chuck Schumer, Elderly, Andrew Cuomo, Budget Cuts, Libraries, Michael Bloomberg, Budget, Teachers, Machete, Kirsten Gillibrand, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Day Care, New York News
Alan Singer

The Democrats claim to want to make the devastating cuts to social programs with a scalpel rather than a machete. But whether an assailant uses a scalpel or a machete, victims are going to bleed.

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William Alden

Budget Woes Threaten Vital Services In New York City

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Taxes, Budget Cuts, Brooklyn, Michael Bloomberg, Economic Crisis, Business News, Day Care, Municipal Debt, New York City, Business News

NEW YORK -- The children at Strong Place day care in Brooklyn can recognize a Van Gogh. They can discuss the effects of acid rain. Some of these presc...

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Obama Memo Gives More Benefits To Federal Workers' Same-Sex Partners

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama ordered government agencies Wednesday to extend additional benefits to same-sex partners of federal employee...

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Deducting From Summer (Taxes, That Is!)

Carolyn Scott | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Taxes, Donate, Money, Summer, Travel, Vacation, Business, Deduction, Savings, Day Care, Business News
Carolyn Scott

I know that April 16th is a ways away but there's no time like the present to start thinking about saving on next year's taxes.

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Who is Obama Kidding? June Cleaver Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Martha Burk | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Obama, Child Care, Moms, Mother's Day, Day Care, Paid Family Leave, Equal Pay, Parenting, Gender, Politics News
Martha Burk

As individuals, we're pretty fond of our mothers. But as a nation we don't value motherhood all that much. We lag far behind Europe in granting leave for the birth or adoption of a child, for example.

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Day-Care Operator Charged With Prostitution

Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
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The owner of a day-care business in Naperville was arrested in a hotel in the west suburb last week on prostitution charges. According to the Naperv...

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CDC: E.Coli Food Poisoning Down Last Year

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Food Poisoning, Shigella, Blindness, Health, Swine Flu Pandemic, Kidney Failure, Salmonella, Hand-Washing, Listeria, Vibrio, Day Care, Paralysis, Disinfection, E.Coli, Healthy Living News

ATLANTA — Americans suffered a bit less food poisoning last year. There were significant drops in illnesses from shigella and the most dangerou...

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Real Estate Financing for Businesses and the New Secondary Market Will Create Jobs but the Dybbuk is in the Details

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Professional Buildings, Motels, Hotels, Job Creation, Acquisition Loans, Alternative Financing, Small Business Loans, Congress, Obama Administration, Day Care, Real Estate, Credit Crunch, SBA Loans, Restaurant Financing, Barack Obama, Small Business Owners, Wall Street, Borrowing Money, Lending Programs, Business News, Stores, Equipment Loans, SBA 504, Sba, Small Business, Business News
Jerry Chautin

A new secondary market for the U.S. Small Business Administration's 504 loan program is up and running.

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Parenting Advice: Screen Time, Our Kids and Child Care

Sheila Lirio Marcelo | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Iphone, Child Care, Babysitter, Childhood Development, Day Care, Ipad, Childhood Obesity, Healthy Living News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo

Different studies point to the same result: for every hour of TV watched, kids run an increased risk of developing ADD, obesity or falling behind in class. Screen time is especially affects young children.

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Budget Cuts Shut Out Kindergarten After-School Care

New York Daily News | Meredith Kolodner | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: New York City Schools, New York After School, After School Care, New York Public Schools, New York Schools, New York, New York Kindergarten, Day Care, Kindergarten, New York News

Thousands of kindergartners could be shut out of after-school classes this fall as those programs are shifted out of day care centers, the Daily News ...

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