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A decade on from the introduction of a landmark scheme aimed at helping new parents share childcare, campaigners say shared parental leave is failing the working families it was designed to help ...
“It is still too hard to be a working parent. We need to get American families access to affordable child care and other support for their children,” Yellen is set to say, according to the ...
Parents often love being involved in their children's lives, but sometimes they can overstep boundaries, creating unnecessary tension. This is what happened to a man whose parents criticized his ...
Benefiting from policies that encourage mothers to work, more companies are adopting child care leave and shorter working time to attract more mothers as workers. However, according to Japan's Gender Equality Bureau, only 3.4% of executives at listed companies in Japan are women, while the percent is 17% in the United States and 30% in France. [35]
Sensitive, guilt-ridden children in the family may learn to meet the parent's needs for gratification and seek love by accommodating the parent's wishes. The child's normal feelings are ignored, denied, and eventually repressed in attempts to gain the parent's "love". Guilt and shame keep the child locked in a developmental arrest. Aggressive ...
Work–family balance issues also differ by class, since middle class occupations provide more benefits and family support while low-wage jobs are less flexible with benefits. Solutions for helping individuals manage work–family balance in the U.S. include legislation, workplace policies, and the marketization of care work.
“This allows parents to save their breath if kids aren’t ready to listen,” she continues. “At the same time, kids will know their parents are available for support and have ideas.”
An alternative to welfare policies is a fundamental rights approach, where a child holds the fundamental constitutional right to both care and financial support from both parents on an equal basis, unless the parents expressly agree otherwise (or adoptive parent(s) assume such responsibilities).