Word: bullen
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...laser-like intensity. "There's been a ratcheting up of expectations about what parents owe their children," says Williams. "The fear is that you have to spend a lot of time with the lessons, the tutors and helping them do their homework or they won't succeed." Observes Martha Bullen, co-author of Staying Home: "A lot of these women were used to more programmed lives in the workplace, and they bring this to their home." Notes Peggy Orenstein, author of Flux, a book based on interviews with women across the country: "There's more pressure to be a perfect...