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...care arrangements, needs can affect TIME parents at work. Nation Head Reporter-Researcher Ursula Nadasdy often fields homework calls on the job from Daughter Alexandra. TIME's Olivia Stewart drives from her San Francisco office to Oakland during lunch to ferry her daughter from summer school to the afternoon sitter. Says Atlanta Reporter Joyce Leviton: "These working mothers are the heroines of our time." Nadasdy rejects the supermom tag. "My success depends on my family's support and love," she says. Mothers are not alone in doing double duty. Staff Writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt regularly cooks breakfast...
...choices, she has learned, are disappointingly few. Only two day-care centers in Chicago accept infants; both are expensive, and neither appeals. "With 20 or 30 babies, it's probably all they can do to get each child's needs met," says McPherson. She would prefer having a baby-sitter come to her home. "That way there's a sense of security and family." But she worries about the cost and reliability: "People will quit, go away for the summer, get sick." In an ideal world, she says, she would choose someone who reflects her own values and does...
...even high-quality, stable infant day care. A new study conducted by Psychiatrist Peter Barglow of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital and colleagues supports this view. It concludes that even upper-middle-class one-year-olds, enjoying ostensibly the best substitute care -- at home with a nanny or baby sitter -- tend to be less securely attached to their mothers. "Is the mother by far the best caretaker for the child in the first year?" asks Barglow. "We think probably...
...earn a sheaf of rave reviews -- when an audience's first and lasting response to his appearance is "Ooooh, isn't he cute?" His face is a posh prison, his smile a winsome rictus. Because everyone wants to mother him, or date him, or have him for a baby-sitter, nobody will let him grow up. He must remain harmless, asexual, a teen-dream Dorian Gray doll or risk losing the devotion of his millions of chaperones...
...show biz. Words such as network, rock, video, new wave, hit parade, album all turn up in Swedish or, for that matter, Arabic. Show biz helps introduce the language of romance: sexy, playboy and, eventually, baby sitter. In Japan, the English names for sexual organs are considered more polite than the Japanese terms, and pink is now the Japanese word for all erotic entertainment...