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July 19, 2012
(Not) Having It All
By Naomi Cahn and June Carbone in AlterNet:
Helping highly educated women have it all is a hot topic, from Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic article, to Amy Chua’s book about Chinese child-rearing Tiger Mothers to Pamela Druckerman’s ode to French parents. The blogosphere is on fire.
Missing from this discussion is the plight of working-class women to have it at all. Since the Great Recession, a larger portion of adults worry that they cannot afford children. Doing so often requires a stark choice between jobs essential to the family’s solvency or adequate supervision of the young. The class contrasts are wide and growing starker.
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MR
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Day Care is a huge expense. Some working parents are fortunate in that they have a family member who is willing to provide day care for little or no cost, but the vast majority of working parents shell out big money each month for their children to attend day care.
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