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...female-job trend. A University of Pennsylvania study found, for example, that within four years of graduating, male nurses leave their profession at twice the rate of women. Another study seemed to determine that gender flexibility is even bad for you: women in top management and men playing Mr. Mom have an increased risk of heart disease. So when the economy recovers, as it someday must, will murses and mannies go back to traditionally male jobs...
...flaunting new mom in this steamy snapshot from next month's W magazine gave birth just six months ago. (It's SARAH JESSICA PARKER, in case you didn't recognize her.) But don't feel too bad. Parker tells W, "I wish that when someone said to me, 'Look how you lost weight after your pregnancy,' I could tell them, 'Yeah, but I can afford a yoga teacher to come to my house. I can afford child care so I can work out for an hour and a half.'" O.K., that does help. A little...
...mother in Boston was feeling guilty, as mothers do. Her daughter had told her she was the only mom who never took her kid to Brownies. Now that probably wasn't true, but it is the child's role to make the mother feel bad about things she hasn't done enough, as well as things she simply hasn't done. So the day of the next Brownie meeting, Mom got to the office early, rushed through her tasks, then made an excuse and left. She drove across town like Sandra Bullock in Speed. Arriving at the Brownie meeting, Mom...
Moreover, the days when a girl lived with Mom and Dad before marrying the boy next door are long gone, and with them the ease of gathering guests for a local wedding. Many young people live far from their hometown, and their parents may also have moved. For a bride who grew up in Nebraska, attended college in Chicago and has lived in California, New York and Arizona, her current residence may seem less than a home base. Chances are, no matter where a couple holds a wedding these days, people will have to travel to attend, so it makes...
Avoiding a hometown wedding can make the event less about other people--Mom's business partners, Dad's second cousin--and more about the bride and groom. Choosing neutral territory can also mitigate family conflicts. Marta Lowe, 32, who lives in Maryland, got married on a farm in Vermont rather than in her hometown, Olympia, Wash., where she feared her estranged divorced parents would spoil the atmosphere. "If I got married where I grew up, people would have come just to glare at each other," Lowe says. With rehearsal dinner and postwedding brunch the new norm, brides and grooms today...