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...ensuing struggle is nasty and getting nastier. Cars have been stoned. Religious centers have been fire bombed. Excrement has been thrown. People on both sides have been assaulted on the street. A Prime Minister has been murdered. Says Menachem Friedman, a sociologist at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan: "We are really near the edge [of] where people can tolerate each other...
Author Arlie Hochschild, who visited 50 families over several years, wrote in Second Shift that sleep-deprived women work an extra month at home each year. More recently, University of Maryland sociologist John Robinson found that mothers still spend about four times as much time with children as fathers do. Psychologist Carin Rubenstein, author of The Sacrificial Mother, found that twice as many moms as dads are involved at school. Soccer moms make up a third of soccer coaches. When the real crunch comes, 83% of mothers stay home with a sick child, reading Goodnight Moon endlessly, compared with...
LeTourneau was arrested and, after a court hearing, was hauled back to jail to serve her full sentence. Judge Linda Lau called LeTourneau's violations "egregious and profoundly disturbing." And Seattle-based sociologist Pepper Schwartz spoke for many parents when he observed, "To have a teacher take a child for herself is a serious act of treachery." Some medical experts who examined LeTourneau, however, protest that she is mentally ill in a way not typical of child molesters. She violated the terms of her release, they say, because she did not get the right treatment...
...sensitive dad who does the laundry. This is Patton leading the Third Army. This is Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier. Disrupt his fantasy at your peril. "There is a real illusion of anonymity combined with potency because you have a machine you can command," says Jack Levin, a sociologist at Northeastern University's Program for the Study of Violence. "Top it off with the stress of work and people perhaps feeling insecure there, or with troubles at home, and it can make for a dangerous combination...
...income women face a secret time bind," said Kathryn Edin, a sociologist from the University of Pennsylvania and the author of a book on single mothers' struggles with welfare and low-wage work...