child care
A Real Mothers’ Day Gift: Better Child Care Assistance
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There are lots of ways we can bring more stability and security to working mothers. For these two women, improving how we handle child care assistance is key.
Books
Road to College Included Hitchhiking with Kids
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Two young children and no car didn’t prevent Rita Henley Jensen from enrolling in Ohio State University. She caught a ride with a stranger and her family’s future was transformed, she says in this excerpt from the anthology “Nothing But The Truth So Help Me God.”
Abortion
Saudi Heads Newspaper; Fleeing Syrians in Top Stress
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Somayya Jabarti is the first woman in Saudi Arabia to head a newspaper. Also this week, Syrian women who have fled to Lebanon are suffering severe stress and health problems.
Christianity
Single-Mom Ministries Expand Their Place in Church
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Christian churches don’t do nearly enough for the growing number of women struggling to raise children on their own. Advocates are trying to change that.
Work
‘Rotis Not Riots’ Offers England Food for Thought
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An online discussion group “Rotis not Riots” has started to look at the causes of last week’s riots in England. That offers a bit of relief from the authoritarian backlash coming from the country’s privileged-male power structure.