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This week's news on the work-life conflict, care, the care crisis, the care economy and human well-being.

Friday, March 9, 2012

 

ARTICLES

Santorum: Single Moms Are "Breeding More Criminals"

From: Mother Jones

By: Tim Murphy and Andy Kroll

"During his first US Senate campaign, Rick Santorum warned voters of a growing menace that was "breeding more criminals" and threatened to destroy America from within: single mothers."

http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/santorum-single-mothers-are-breeding-more-criminals

 

RADIO

Parents Struggle with Being Cared for by Kids

From: Talk of the Nation

By: John Donvan

"Adult children caring for elderly parents may feel guilty, isolated and resentful. But some parents being cared for do too. Dr. Lillian Rubin knows that struggle well, as she has found herself at odds with her well-meaning daughter over what her daughter wants for her, and what she actually needs."

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/06/148053978/parents-struggle-with-being-cared-for-by-kids

 

Parents Brace for Change In The Lives Of Their Disabled Children

From: wamu.org

By: Sabri Ben-Achour

"The Northern Virginia Training Institute is one of Virginia's five training centers for developmentally disabled residents. The center offers a doctor and dentist on-call, a nature trail, and a therapeutic swimming pool. Some residents have jobs at the vocational center recycling or making crafts.

But all this will go away within three years as Virginia implements a settlement with the Department of Justice. The idea is to take people out of institutions, and put them in community-based settings where some might have more freedom and be socialized into mainstream society. That could mean living in their own home, group homes, or at a home with live-in staff, or any number of other options."

http://wamu.org/programs/metro_connection/12/03/02/parents_brace_for_change_in_the_lives_of_their_disabled_children

 

Environmental Outlook: Organic Food Standards

From: The Diane Rehm Show

By: Diane Rehm

"The market for organic food has grown from just $1 billion in 1990 to nearly $30 billion today. As big corporations enter the market, concern has grown about enforcement of organic standards, and some see the movement drifting away from its founding principles of sustainability and local farming. They are alarmed by organic tomatoes grown in far-off, Mexican deserts that require constant irrigation, organic cows living on industrial-sized feedlots, and chickens laying organic eggs while confined in high-capacity barns. But others say that big farms bring organic food to the masses. For this month's Environmental Outlook series: the organic food paradox."

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-03-06/environmental-outlook-organic-food-standards

 

From Middle Class to Working Poor

From: Marketplace

By: David Gura

"About 30 miles up to Cumming, Ga. That's in Forsyth County. Still, pretty rural. Part of the metro area, but still a pretty rural area. If you peek through the pines you can see Lake Lanier down there below the hills. And I visited with Steve and Suellen Daniels. They've been here for about 20-25 years. And like a lot of people here in Georgia, they moved here from out of state. Steve got a job with a tech company, he got a job with Digital, which was bought out by Compaq, and then bought out by HP a little while later. And in 2008, he left HP for a new job with a startup company."

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/real-economy/middle-class-working-poor

 

Student Loan Debt Soars to Record Level

From: Marketplace

By: Nancy Marshall-Genzer

"I'm definitely worried, I can't lie: I'm graduating with three heavy student loans. I just feel maybe that's also why my push is to get a job so hard and make sure I have something lined up. Because at the end of the day, I don't want to be in a position where it's these heavy bills, and I came to this school to get all these loans, and I didn't get a job out of it to pay it back."

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/education/student-loan-debt-soars-record-level

 

BLOGS

New Marriages or No Marriages?

From: Economix, a blog from The New York Times

By: Nancy Folbre

"Why more children are being born to unmarried mothers is a complex question involving education, income and the changing roles of men and women, an economist writes."

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/new-marriages-or-no-marriages/?ref=business

 

Drastic Cuts to Lead Poisoning and Prevention Funds

From: Motherlode, a blog from The New York Times

By: KJ Dell'Antonia

"If, tomorrow, you took your toddler in for a routine checkup, and a blood test found elevated levels of lead, your next steps would be reasonably clear. Your pediatrician would hand you local health department phone numbers. Someone would come to help you figure out the source of the lead contamination, and amid your panic - because lead poisoning is serious, and its effects on mental and physical development potentially long-lasting­ - would be that one reassuring thing: someone was going to help you locate, and get rid of, the cause of the problem."

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/drastic-cuts-to-lead-poisoning-and-prevention-funds/

 

 

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