The War on Moms: On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation

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The War on Moms: On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation
By Sharon Lerner




&#8226ublisher:  Wiley
•Number Of Pages:  224
&#8226ublication Date:  2010-04-26
•ISBN-10 / ASIN:  0470177098
•ISBN-13 / EAN:  9780470177099






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How employers make child–rearing an emotional and financial burden for women
The joy of having a baby quickly morphed into logistical panic when Devorah Gartner learned her newborn had suffered a prenatal stroke and needed daily physical therapy. So the computer software manager asked her employer for a month′s leave to care for her daughter. The answer was no, which meant Gartner had to quit her job to care for her child. She lost her health insurance and spiraled into debt.
This is not an individual tragedy, writes Sharon Lerner in \"The War on Moms: On Life in a Family–Unfriendly Nation,\" but a national fiasco.
The U.S. is failing its mothers. The happy event of a birth often presages disaster for women in this country, the majority of whom get little support in the form of affordable, quality childcare or guaranteed paid maternity leave.
Lerner wants to get the revolution started, and her book is a direct appeal for federal intervention to help moms struggling to hold jobs and raise kids at the same time.
Dads have challenges too, and increasingly pitch in with housework and childcare, but it′s mothers who still, on average, weather the financial and domestic impact of raising children.


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