Our mothers told us we could have it all: a great career and a loving family. But what happens when the 9-to-5 business day leaves us too frazzled to enjoy all of it? By implementing creative solutions, businesses and employers have managed to chip away at the once impermeable 9-to-5 schedule, and it just might […]
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Imagine that a man is walking to his car from work after dark one evening. He reaches his car and begins fishing in his pocket for his keys when all of a sudden, he is hit from behind. He falls to the ground and is kicked repeatedly. Through the fury of pain he feels in
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Dear Feminists for Life, In the pages that follow, I don’t just see abstractions. I see my family, friends, and, yes, myself. As feminists, we know that there is a dark spectrum of violence. Abortion is one of many forms of violence against women. While we never invite pain, if we can work through tragedy
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When Marion Syversen was 15 years old, desperate for affection, and hoping to escape her unstable home and drug-addicted mother, she decided the best way to achieve both was to get pregnant — on purpose. “I wanted the baby to be adopted, and I thought the baby’s new family could adopt me, too,” she recalls.
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