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Class Privilege and Parental Leave

Lisa Wade | Posted 04.10.2013 | Parents
Read More: Socioeconomic Class, Parental Leave, Fathering, Mother, Nurture, Social Classes, Motherhood, Father, United States Government, Parenting, Social Class, Class, Economic Class, Parental Involvement, Mothers, Fathers, Parents News
Lisa Wade

Without state support for early parenting, being present in those precious early months is a class-based privilege, one that ultimately exacerbates the very class disadvantage that creates unequal access to the luxury of parenting in the first place.

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Occupy The Neolithic?

| Michael Balter on 28 May 2012, 3:00 PM | Posted 05.30.2012 | Science
Read More: Neolithic Age, Video, Stone Age, Neolithic, Hierarchies, , Social Classes, Occupy, Social Class, Early Humans, Inequality, Science News

Even the most democratic societies are rife with social and economic inequalities, as the current tension between the poorer "99%" and the richest "1%...

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Rich 'Protected More Than Victims'

Posted 09.05.2011 | Home
Read More: Courts System, Wealthy, Victims Rights, Rich Poor, Victim's Tsar, Economic Classes, Social Classes, Milly Dowler, Judicial System, Louise Casey, Home News

Press Association -- The current courts system protects the rich and wealthy more than it does the families of murder victims, the victims' tsar has s...

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The Trouble With Meritocracy

Mark Olmsted | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Meritocracy, Social Stratification, Capitalist Society, The Giving Life, Social Classes, American Meritocracy, Social Class, Social Inequity, Healthy Living News
Mark Olmsted

Here's the question society needs to ask itself: Do the "average" and "below average" have the same right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as the "above average" and "excellent?"

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