Dear Amy: I am a 21-year-old man who has spent large portions of the last few years out of school and working part time because of an arrangement I've had with my parents to help them by baby-sitting my two siblings, who are 10 and 4. Recently I was offered a full-time position at a local company, and I intend to take it. Now my mother has decided to demand money from me when I start this job. I've never asked her for a dime for baby-sitting! But now that I have a full-time job, she is insisting on my "chipping in around the house.
I am a 21-year-old man who has spent the last few years out of school and working part time because of an arrangement I've had with my parents to help them by baby-sitting my two siblings, who are 10 and 4. Recently I was offered a full-time position at a local company, and I intend to take it. Now my mother has decided to demand money from me when I start this job. I've never asked her for a dime for baby-sitting! But now that I have a full-time job, she is insisting on my "chipping in around the house.
Vowing to change is all the rage right now, as millions of Americans make their New Year's resolutions, so you'll have to forgive me for not playing along. But contrary to the thesis of The Washington Times' Jan. 1 front-page story ("Legacies bedevil aging icons/Cultural reins taken by young"), the legacy of the man whose shoes I am prayerfully trying to fill is not "going to start getting chewed up" - because the principles and passions on which James Dobson built Focus on the Family more than 30 years ago are just as relevant today as they have ever been. The proof is abundant in some of the statistics cited in your very own story. Most young people 18 to 25, you note, want to get married, have children and find careers; counseling and advising men and women to successfully navigate t...
NEW YORK (AP) - A sharply increasing portion of America's working mothers say their ideal situation would include a part-time job, rather than working full time or staying at home, a new national survey finds. The Pew Research Center survey, released Thursday, found that only 21 percent of working mothers with children under 18 viewed full-time work as the best arrangement, down from 32 percent in 1997.
...Full-time employment means employment of a qualifying employ... a position that requires a minimum of 35 working hours per week. In the case of the Immigrant Inves...A job-sharing arrangement whereby two or more qualifying employees share a f...
NEW YORK - A sharply increasing portion of America's working mothers say their ideal situation would include a part-time job, rather than working full time or staying at home, a new national survey finds. The Pew Research Center survey, being released today, found that only 21 percent of working mothers with children under 18 viewed full-time work as the best arrangement, down from 32 percent in 1997.
NEW YORK -- A sharply increasing portion of America's working mothers say their ideal situation would include a part-time job, rather than working full time or staying at home, a new national survey finds. The Pew Research Center survey, being released Thursday, found that only 21 percent of working mothers with children under 18 viewed full-time work as the best arrangement, down from 32 percent in 1997.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Beginning in February, field representatives of the U.S. Census Bureau will visit 45,000 households nationwide to find out what is the most popular type of child-care arrangement for working parents. The last time this information was collected, in 1999, the results showed that 21 percent of preschoolers of employed mothers had their grandparents as their primary child-care provider.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Beginning in February, field representatives of the U.S. Census Bureau will visit 45,000 households nationwide to find out what is the most popular type of child-care arrangement for working parents. The last time this information was collected, in 1999, the results showed that 21 percent of preschoolers of employed mothers had their grandparents as their primary child-care provider.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Beginning in February, field representatives of the U.S. Census Bureau will visit 45,000 households nationwide to find out what is the most popular type of child-care arrangement for working parents. The last time this information was collected, in 1999, the results showed that 21 percent of preschoolers of employed mothers had their grandparents as their primary child-care provider.
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