Family Care

Former Tech Titan Launches Site To Ease Caregiving Toll

Posted 02.17.2012

Jonathan Schwartz, former Sun Microsystems CEO, announced today the launch of his new internet startup site that works to ease the often-overwhelming ...

Join Us in Integrated Approach to Build The New Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Luce

Léogâne, Haiti. I am perhaps the most excited I have been in my entire life as I prepare to move to Haiti next month. Ten months after the earthqu...

Orphans International Worldwide Unveils New Website for Sponsoring Kids - Including Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Luce

Orphans International Worldwide (OIWW) unveiled its new website, the third since its founding in 1999. I created the first, which was indeed primitiv...

'Orphan Doctor' Calls on World Community to End Orphan Crisis by Tackling Poverty

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Luce

Dr. Jane Aronson, founder and CEO of Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO), has issued a bold response today to a recent article on child trafficking. J...

Airplane Interview with the American Ambassador to Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Luce

Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Returning from a recent post-disaster trip to Haiti, I was pleasantly surprised to bump into the American Ambassador, the Hon....

Alzheimer's Disease: Caring for the Caregiver

Kathryn Haslanger | Posted 11.17.2011

Kathryn Haslanger

According to the Alzheimer's Association, there are 8.9 million people in the U.S. caring for someone over the age of 50 who has dementia. This is a full 20 percent of all family caregivers in this country.

Peaceful Revolution: Time to Stop Free-Riding on Families

Phoebe Taubman | Posted 11.17.2011

Phoebe Taubman

We have been operating under workplace norms and laws developed over 50 years ago when a different workforce model and a different family model prevailed.

Will A Vow Of Poverty Fill The Void In My Soul?

Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2011

Jim Luce

As I approach my fiftieth birthday, I am feeling incomplete. Part of me - my soul? - is still missing. In secular terms, I think I am not yet in tou...

Madonna, Mercy and Malawi

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Luce

Jane and I love our adopted children more than anything else in the world. We would both rather have them raised by Madonna than grow up where we found them.

Role Reversal: In Trying Times, Children Become Caregivers

NYTimes.com | PAM BELLUCK | Posted 11.17.2011

Across the country, children are providing care for sick parents or grandparents -- lifting frail bodies off beds or toilets, managing medication, was...

Illinois Health Care Expansion Halted Again

AP | Mike Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

A judge on Wednesday renewed an order banning state officials from making payments under Gov. Rod Blagojevich's expanded health care program, and sa...