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...title of the study sounds ho-hum enough: "New Lives for Poor Families?" But the results being published this week by researchers at Berkeley, Columbia, Stanford and Yale could cause trouble for Bush's welfare-reform plans. Funded in part by the Department of Health and Human Services since the Clinton Administration, the report charts the effects of 1996 welfare reforms on more than 700 mothers and their young children. The overall picture is bleak. While mothers' earnings rose modestly, many still lived in roach-infested housing, had to skimp on food and spent fewer hours singing and telling stories...
Some of the calls came from students at Stanford and MIT, where anger over the shirts has also led to protests...
Rockefeller University, Princeton, Yale and Stanford rounded out the top five, while Southern Adventist University —where the average salary for a full professor is $34,800—was ranked last...
...women need to think about having their children younger leaves more men as primary breadwinners. They would be fathers as far as biology goes, but they wouldn't get much chance to be parents. "A lot of my friends who are men and have had families are now divorced," Stanford's Adamson admits. "When you ask them what happened, the vast majority will say, 'Well, I was never home. I was working all the time. I didn't pay enough attention to my family. I wish I had, but it's too late...
...simply how information is shared. Childlessness is a private sorrow; the miracle baby is an inevitable headline. "When you see these media stories hyping women in their late 40s having babies, it's with donor eggs," insists Stanford's Adamson, "but that is conveniently left out of the stories." The more aggressive infertility clinics have a financial incentive to hype the good news and bury the facts: a 45-year-old woman who has gone through seven cycles of IVF can easily spend $100,000 on treatment. But even at the best fertility clinics in the country, her chance...