Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Child Care'
Arizona Drops Felony Charges Against Undocumented Immigrant
by Valeria Fernandez, New America Media, USA - Luz Ruiz Rascón noticed the signs as she stepped into her home. Missing lampshades, grease in the kitchen, papers everywhere. Tiny details that any other time would have caused her to admonish...
Online Outrage After Chinese City Proposes Fine on Single Mothers
by Rachel Lu, Tea Leaf Nation, China/USA - Women giving birth out of wedlock in China have to contend with family pressure, social stigma and financial hardship. Now, some of them may have to pay a hefty fine as well....
UK Immigration Control: Children in Extreme Distress
by Sarah Campbell, Open Democracy, UK - Alarming numbers of parents are being separated from their children indefinitely in the UK for the purposes of immigration control. It is difficult to imagine any other situation where children could have such...
The Kiss of Death for Female Representation in Politics?
by Mary Regan, Irish Examiner, Ireland - "WE want to see as many of them as possible” — this was the one-line response by a grinning Enda Kenny two years ago, when he was asked if female representation would increase...
Extraordinary Eritreans: A support centre for Eritreans in Israel
by Ruth Michaelson, RFI, France - Israel is home to one of the largest Eritrean communities in the world. However, they face discrimination and live in constant fear. One Eritrean woman has founded a centre to give them support....
What China’s ‘One-Child Policy’ Really Looks Like — A View from the Grassroots
by Kim Wall, Tea Leaf Nation, China/US - Earlier this week, China’s leadership announced the merging of the Family Planning Commission, which oversees the implementation of the policy, with the Health Ministry, drawing speculation as to whether the Chinese family...
You’ve Come a Long Way, Feminism (But You’re Not There Yet)
by Ruth Rosen, Yes!, USA - I always knew this was the longest revolution, one that would take a century or more to unfold. It’s upended most of our lives, and significantly improved so many of them. Nothing will ever...
Nanna and Pop’s Unpaid Labour Keeping the Economy Ticking
by Angela Priestley, Women's Agenda, Australia - The shortfalls in structured childcare become clear when so many parents are turning to their own parents for assistance -- whether it's the prohibiting costs, location, opening hours or sourcing a reasonable childcare...
Day Care Expense Rivals College Cost, Fuels Social Problems
by Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, USA - Childcare costs for an infant at a day care center may be more expensive than instate-college tuition, according to a new study. US childcare policy, says experts, is riddled with problems that...
Venezuela’s New Labour Law: Promoting Mutual Parental Responsibility
by Lady Gomez, Venezuela Analysis, Venezuela - For Alba Carosio, member of the Feminist Spider Network, the labour rights gained are a tool for dissembling patriarchal society, which is dedicated to the exploitation of workers’ labour and discrimination against women....
Ann Romney, Working Woman?
by Katha Pollitt, The Nation, USA - The difference between a stay-home mother and a welfare mother is money and a wedding ring. Unlike any other kind of labor I can think of, domestic labor is productive or not, depending...
The Real War on Moms
by Irin Carmon, Salon, USA - The Romneys and other Republicans have nothing to offer parents other than manufactured outrage....
Quebec’s Subsidized Child Care Pays for Itself
by Annie Urban, Care2, USA - Parent Central reported on the study and noted that for every dollar that the government of Quebec invests in subsidized day care, it wins back $1.05; the federal government also benefits through the receipt...
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