Arts & Culture
Ivorians Who Married Young Warn Others of Hazards
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Female teens in the countryside of Ivory Coast often leave school to start families with older men. It’s a financial strategy that many women here say they have lived to regret.
Commentary
Political Wives’ ‘Tipper Point’ Is Way Too Late
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Maria Shriver asked for privacy this week in the matter of her breakup with Schwarzenegger over his “love child.” Sandra Kobrin says sorry, but when a woman stays married to a powerful womanizer, the personal turns deeply public and political.
Health & Science
Pickups Mobilize Bolivia’s Maternal Healthcare
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Mobile health units are rolling clinicians into remote parts of Bolivia and helping to lower one of the world’s worst rates of maternal mortality. Reporting costs for this story were partially funded by International Planned Parenthood.
Divorce and Motherhood
WuDunn Finds Journalism, Marriage Go Together
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After sharing a Pulitzer Prize and authorship of two books with her husband, Sheryl WuDunn says her marriage and journalism are inextricably linked. In previous books the authors kept their identities separate. In “Half the Sky,” they write as “we.”
Arts & Culture
Let’s Do More for Young Mothers at the Margin
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Amid recent stories of teenage moms with family support, there’s another segment of young moms being overlooked. Jeannette Pai-Espinosa says we also need to invest in female teens born into poverty, violence, abuse and other destructive cycles.
Business
For This Working Mom It’s a Real Balancing Act
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Shana Miller Kennedy has figured out how to balance work and family, quite literally. But the founder of one of the country’s few circus-arts schools cautions against multitasking. A good juggler must have total focus. Babysitters also help a lot.
Crime & Law
Unions Put Paid Family Leave on the Table
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Unions that put family-friendly benefits at the heart of contract negotiations are boosting their case with productivity arguments. One group of janitors says they most want assistance managing their children’s education. The second of two stories.
Divorce and Motherhood
Obama’s Budget Could Do More for Single Moms
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Kelly White, the new executive director of Chicago Foundation for Women, speaks from personal experience when she talks about the needs of single female heads of household. From that perspective, she examines the outlines of the Obama budget.
Divorce and Motherhood
Nurse-Midwife Logs a Miscarriage, Divorce, Tears
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In her memoir of nurse-midwifery in West Virginia, “The Blue Cotton Gown,” Patricia Harman recalls the superwoman-like endurance of Nila, a mother of six who struggles with the shame of a miscarriage and a potentially dangerous divorce.