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Yesterday, Bethany Sanders wrote about Nell Casey’s article wherein she explained that she earns more than her husband and admitted to using it, on occasion, to get out of parenting duties. Many families today need both parents to work, just to make ends meet, and yet, many women still find themselves doing the lion’s share of the work at home. But the home is not the same as it once was and marriage is not the same. These days, it falls upon both parents to both bring home the bacon and to fry it up in a pan — at least it should.
Today on Babble:
Men, Women, and Money: If Mom Earns More Than Dad, Who Changes the Diapers?
Writes Nell Casey:
There are a lot of reasons to have kids: free labor, picking up chicks, and, of course, the tax deduction. That last one was popular in my home when I was growing up — my father was a Certified Public Accountant and we kids all knew the tax advantage of children. Sadly, as one single mom found out, you don’t necessarily get that tax deduction just for having kids. As far as the IRS is concerned, she doesn’t have any kids because she’s too poor to support them.
John Nelson, like so many others, was a victim of the economic meltdown our country is trying to deal with; he lost his job and was out of work for a year, before finding another, lower-paying position. Nelson is also a divorced father, ordered to pay child support. After he was laid off, Nelson filed for a reduction in his child support obligation, but it took more than a year to get a court date and then, when he finally did get to make his case before a judge, the judge actually increased the amount Nelson had to pay, leaving him with just $58 per week to live on.
My wife Rachel breastfed each of our three children for over a year — no easy feat when you consider that she’s an elementary school teacher and was not always able to take breaks to pump. Still, though, a year is a notable length of time in the United States. I guess it’s notable in Sweden, too, where a recent study looked at the breastfeeding status of 12,000 infants.
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And here you thought your kid’s rank on the Social Security Administration list was the best way to rank its avant garde factor. There’s another Web gadget doing statistical analysis of inane information to make it cool again.
Think Five Thirty Eight for the parent set, the Baby Name Mapper from the Baby Name Wizard (Disclaimer, I once interviewed the site’s creator for a dispatch on Babble about baby naming trends) will let you know when “your” name peaked in popularity and when. Continue reading »
Worried that kid really doesn’t look like you? Quick, it’s time to head south – way south. The State of Mississippi will be offering free paternity tests to fathers (or suspected baby daddies anyway) on certain days throughout the month of September.
Why now? Turns out it’s all about the dough. Continue reading »
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