Word: parents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush: he has been calling for some kind of work in exchange for benefits since he served in Congress. He, like Dukakis, supports Senator Daniel Moynihan's welfare-reform bill, which requires most welfare recipients to work in exchange for assistance and mandates child support from the absent parent. The bill also includes a feature that is necessary to reverse the incentive toward single-parent welfare families: it provides subsidies for two-parent families in which the primary breadwinner is unemployed. After languishing for months, a compromise version of the bill was passed by Congress last week...
...some U.S. urban areas, older parents are becoming the norm. Author Martha Fay, 41, mother of a five-year-old daughter, says of her West Side Manhattan neighborhood, "Some of the mothers look so old they don't appear biologically capable of having had these children. We have 50-year-old men teaching soccer teams." For both sexes, the benefits of postponing kids are greater financial security and well-established careers. What is more, there is no question that late children are wanted -- often badly wanted. Says Susan Fillin-Yeh, 45, an art historian at Yale and mother...
Lateborn children are likely to be more aware of death than many of their peers. Certainly, as young adults, they may find themselves caring for a chronically ill parent. Perhaps because she is the daughter of older parents, King understands her daughter Megan, 9, when she says, "Mommy, I wish you were younger; then you wouldn't die so soon." Still, psychologists think many children are acutely afraid of death when they are very young -- and when their parents are least likely...
...their workers, companies are increasingly looking for ways to help ease the unavoidable conflicts between career and family. More than half of all U.S. firms provide some form of family benefits, ranging from paternity leave and flexible hours to assistance in finding the right nursing home for an elderly parent. The Merck pharmaceutical company helped start a day-care center near its Rahway, N.J., headquarters, and permits employees to start work as early as 7 a.m. or as late as 9:30 a.m. so that they can meet family obligations. Procter & Gamble offers workers unpaid child-care leave...
...have to leave their jobs, make up an increasingly large part of the work force and are holding more high- salaried managerial posts than ever before. Says Frank Skinner, president of the Southern Bell telephone company: "No employee who has to leave a sick child or an elderly parent at home without adequate care can be expected to be your most productive employee. It is clearly in our best corporate interest to find ways to help employees address these problems...