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...process of total reinvention that was the largest promise acting held out to him as a young man. Born Archibald Leach in bleak Bristol, England, son of a drinking, defeated father and a mother who was placed in a madhouse when he was ten, he was a lonely, latchkey child, who decided on a life in show biz the first time he visited backstage. "A dazzling land of smiling, jostling people ... classless, cheerful and carefree," is how he later described what...
...doing it as fathers do. But that is still a mark of progress. The total hours worked by men and women are roughly equal--about 65 hours a week--when you count paid and unpaid work. For all the headlines about the time crunch and the lost generation of latchkey kids, today's parents actually spend more time with their children than parents did in 1965. In the case of fathers, they spend twice as much...
...she’s got to get to work. A student at Salem State during the week, come Friday night Bambi drives to an office in Lynn, Mass. in a decrepit storefront hidden from view of passersby, who probably only notice the shut-down restaurant and latchkey children playing in the streets. There, she will wait for requests from across New England. “Dancing,” she calls it. She gives lap dances to grooms at their bachelor parties as they tuck dollar bills under her thong, going the full monty for men she?...
More importantly, though, I love the uniqueness of growing up in New York. Being a city kid I learned independence and responsibility early on. As the only child of two working parents, by the age of 11 I was a latchkey kid, navigating the streets with my hand tightly on my bag and my head held high and alert. In high school, my friends and I mimicked the young professionals surrounding us, spending our weekends dining out, visiting museums, and partying at bars after finishing our homework...
Chung and others speculate that the attitude differences can be explained in part by forces that shaped each generation. While boomer women sought career opportunities that were unavailable to their mostly stay-at-home moms, Gen Xers were the latchkey kids and the children of divorce. Also, their careers have bumped along in a roller-coaster, boom-bust economy that may have shaken their faith in finding reliable satisfaction at work...