Word: householder
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...figured out how they wanted to order their family. ” Though Antoinette’s husband never had problems making money “stick to his hands like a magnet,” he gave up the corporate world in order to run their household and take care of the kids. He’s the kind of guy who doesn’t mind taking them out of school on a random fall day and taking them to the science museum if he thought it would better their education in a hands on way. Though...
...Ataturk, an aggressive secularist who gave women rights unprecedented in the Muslim world (even if he found it hard to accept women as equals in his own life). Last week the Turkish parliament went a step further by reforming family law. Previously, a man was the head of the household, able to make unilateral decisions concerning children. No more. The law also establishes community property in marriages and raises the marriageable age of girls from...
Women in the audience questioned panelists about gender roles. Jane Gray ’95 said she wondered how many men were willing to split household responsibilities equally...
...Ataturk, an aggressive secularist who gave women rights unprecedented in the Muslim world (even if he found it hard to accept women as equals in his own life). Last week the Turkish parliament went a step further by reforming family law. Previously, a man was the head of the household, able to make unilateral decisions concerning children. No more. The law also establishes community property in marriages and raises the marriageable age of girls from 15 to 18. (See pictures of women in Saudi Arabia...
...parent older boys," says University of Maryland sociologist Suzanne Bianchi. Thomas Hoerner, a Fort Worth, Texas, sales manager, took primary custody of his three sons, then 3, 7 and 9, at his wife's suggestion. Balancing his career, relationships with his kids and ex-wife and running a household was difficult. "I couldn't get my arms around it all," he confesses. He tried to take a job out of state, but his ex-wife took him to court and won. Hoerner became active in Fathers for Equal Rights and wrote a book, Bachelor Parents and Their (Dys)Functional Families...