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...realities of their jobs would let them. A 1999 study by the State Institute for Family Research in Bamberg, Germany, found that 20% of men would like to take parental leave. But state figures show that only 2% of German fathers actually do so. Dortmund-based management assistant Ansgar von der Osten, 38, declined to take his unpaid parental leave entitlement of up to three years after the birth of each of his two children because his wife was studying. He also declined to take advantage of the part-time working hours to which he was legally entitled. The potential...
...suicide is an aberration that suicide happens only to mal-adjusted loners. But this attitude is the problem. Suicides happen to athletes like Annelle Fitzpatrick '00, and musicians like Katherine L. Tucker '94. They happen to David Okrent '99, Benjamin R. Hanson '97-'98, Jason D. Altom and Ansgar Hansen '97. Suicides are ordinary events that happen to ordinary people. To brand suicides, suicidal tendencies or feelings of depression as inherently abnormal and to ostracize their occurrence from the mainstream the way one removes a malignant tumor reinforces the mentality that causes them in the first place...
Among those were two besides Tadesse who were affiliated with Dunster House: Kathryn L. Tucker '94, who still lived in the Boston area and remained close to undergraduate friends, and Ansgar Hansen '97, a Dunster resident at the time of his death...
Former Dunster resident Kathryn L. Tucker '94 took her life in April following a lengthy bout with depression. And Dunster resident Ansgar Hansen '97 killed himself just a week later. Friends said he was overwhelmed by academic responsibilities...
...Ansgar was a sort of a fragile person, he wasoverwhelmed by a lot of things and the work he hadto, and there were some family problems,"Travassos said. "He had a lot of stress, had todeal with a lot of different things, it reallytook a toll...