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Family-Friendly Policies from Family-Friendly Companies

Flexible parental-leave programs are one of the keys to employee retention. These exemplary companies have policies in place that rank high with working parents. Ernst & Young Tax, accounting, and financial services New York, NY Leave Policy: Six weeks of fully paid parental leave...

Tags: C.C. Holland, Gender And Diversity, Leave, Women, Employee, Ernst & Young LLP, Wyeth, Mother, Program, human resources, workplace, benefits, parental leave, Family and Medical Leave Act, BNET Feature

Articles 2007-05-29

To Sue or Not to Sue?

The Beatles' Apple Corps Ltd. finally settling its trademark case with Apple Inc. is a good example when it makes sense for a company to defend its registered trademark -- both companies had a great deal at stake in the dispute. The National Pork Board, however, learned the hard way that...

Tags: Beatles, Blogger, Mother, Joseph De Avila, Internet, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-02-09

Prenatal Drug Use and the Production of Infant Health

The paper estimates the effect of illicit drug use during pregnancy on low birth weight. It uses data from a national longitudinal study of urban parents that includes post-partum interviews with mothers, hospital medical record data on the mother and newborn, extensive demographic information on both parents, and information about...

Tags: Health Care, Medical Record, National Bureau Of Economic Research, Mother

White papers 2005-06-01

An Investigation of the Factors Influencing Breastfeeding Patterns

Research indicates that both mothers and children benefit from breastfeeding. However, a large fraction of mothers do not breastfeed or breastfeed for a shorter period than recommended, and some groups of mothers are more likely to breastfeed than others. This paper seeks to understand these breastfeeding patterns by investigating demographic...

Tags: Workplace, Ingersoll-Rand, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Mother

White papers 2004-12-16

Revised Birth and Fertility Rates for the 1990s and New Rates for Hispanic Populations, 2000 and 2001: United States

This paper presents revised birth and fertility rates for 1991-99, as well as previously published revised rates for 2000-2001, based on populations consistent with the April 1, 2000, census. Rates are presented by age, race, and Hispanic origin of mother; by age, race, Hispanic origin, and marital status of mother;...

Tags: Mother, Rate

White papers 2003-08-04

Do Flexible Schedules Help Working Mothers?

New research questions the benefits of flexible work arrangements; companies recognize risks, but shun security chiefs; e-mail abuse puts employees in hot water. New research debunks the widely held view that working mothers are benefiting from flexible schedules. Working mothers are having a harder time than ever balancing the needs...

Tags: Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, E-mail, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Workplace, Mother

Case studies 2003-01-01

Mean Age of Mother, 1970-2000

This paper presents trends in the mean age of mothers giving birth for the United States for the last three decades. Data are presented by live-birth order, race, His panic origin, and State of residence of the mother. The mean age of mother has increased steadily in the United States...

Tags: Mother, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity

White papers 2002-12-11

Nonresident Father Involvement: Do Mothers and Fathers See Eye-to-Eye? An Investigation of the Impact of Reporting Discrepancies on Parameter Estimates

This paper explores issues associated with the use of mothers' proxy reports of nonresident fathers' characteristics and behaviors in analysis of child well-being. The purpose of this paper is not to identify "the truthful parent." It is not to imply that mothers or fathers are not telling the truth about...

Tags: Mother

White papers 2002-05-24

Budgeting the Key to Being Financially Stable

Budgeting is key to being financially stable. A budget is a systematic plan for the expenditure of a usually fixed resource, such as money or time, during a given period. A single mother might groan at the thought of putting together a household budget with all her expenses, but its...

Tags: Mother, Financial, Budgeting, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance

White papers

SCORE Helps Toolmakers' Daughter Transfer A Family Tradition To A New Future

After a tour of duty in the U.S. Air Force and starting a career as a metallurgical and energy systems inspector, Amy Pieh returned to Wisconsin in 2000 to help her mother run the family business after her father died. After her mother passed away 18 months later, she enlisted...

Tags: Mother, Professional Development, Career

Case studies

Get Mom the Coolest, Trendiest Gift Ever: Power Tools a Hip Alternative to Candy and Flowers for Mother's Day

The hottest Mother's Day gift this year is not roses, candy or even breakfast in bed. It's a cordless drill straight from the domain of tool-belted dads. Increasingly, women are at least as interested in tackling home improvement projects as they are in getting pampered or receiving yet another household...

Tags: Productivity, Gender And Diversity, Mother, Human Resources, Tool, Homestore Inc., Women

White papers

Additional Resources

Slow Food Nation Scheduled for Labor Day Weekend in San Francisco

FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Slow Food Nation Scheduled for Labor Day Weekend in San FranciscoC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Slow Food Nation, the largest celebration of American food in history, will take place in San Francisco over Labor Day weekend, August 29 to September...

Articles 2009-06-08

Shell casing leads to suspension

A Massachusetts fourth-grader was suspended from elementary school for bringing a souvenir to school--an empty shell casing from a blank used in a Memorial Day celebration, the National Rifle Association reports. A uniformed veteran gave the 10-year-old two empty rifle shell casings from blanks as a souvenir. He gave one...

Articles 2008-10-01

What can be learned from the roller coaster journeys of young people making ultimately successful transitions beyond school?

This project investigated the interrelationships between family expectations and young people's post-school plans. All of the participants were from financially disadvantaged families. The research used interviews to understand these young people's perspectives of their transition experiences: the ways in which young people's school experiences impacted on their...

Articles 2008-09-22

Mothers bond better with babies after natural births

Women who have a natural birth form stronger bonds with their babies than those who deliver by Caesarean section, researchers say. Stimulation of the cervix and vagina during natural birth releases hormones that generate powerful feelings critical to a woman's performance as a mother immediately after delivery....

Articles 2008-09-04

Palin should put family first

I think it is a shame that Utahns and Republicans in general are lining up to support John McCain's vice presidential choice of Sarah Palin. This is not to say she is not capable of handling the job and has little to do with being a woman. However, it has...

Articles 2008-09-04

McCain's adopted daughter shifts attention from Bristol

THE UNLIKELY family tableau at the Republican convention surely jolted millions of viewers: there was Cindy McCain, strings of pearls about her neck as usual, clasping hands with her adopted 17- year-old daughter, Bridget. Mother and daughter were on the edge of crying. It's not that America...

Articles 2008-09-04

JERRY REED

Actor and country singer IF THE epithet "multi-talented" is today regularly overused, it seems wholly appropriate when describing Jerry Reed. An award- winning country singer, he was also a fine songwriter - his "U.S. Male" and "Guitar Man" became substantial hits for Elvis Presley - as...

Articles 2008-09-04

Authorities seek to find cause of killing spree

ALGER, Wash. AP -- Authorities on Wednesday were trying to determine what set off a shooting and stabbing rampage that left six people dead and four wounded, attacks they blame on a drug offender who was released from jail less than a month ago. The mother of...

Articles 2008-09-04

Mother smoked pot in front of child, police say

PROVO -- Police arrested a mother who they say had been smoking marijuana in front of her 3-year-old child. Neighbors called Orem police on Sunday to ask that officers come check on a nearby home and the child living there, according to an affidavit of probable cause...

Articles 2008-09-04