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Parents have managed to develop a mysterious immunity to the virulent cheer of their kids' entertainment. Childless STEVE BURNS, 27, was not so lucky. As host of Nickelodeon's relentlessly upbeat Blue's Clues for five years, Burns put up with all manner of manic happiness, but last week he bitterly announced his departure from the show. "I didn't really want to become Krusty the Klown in front of the nation," said Burns, who, along with animated dog pal Blue, helped teach kids deductive reasoning while prodding them into spending $1 billion on Blue's Clues merchandise. Burns will...
...refused to fly; when he disappeared to Spain, as he often did, he went by ship. In 1964 he arrived at the G.O.P. Convention in San Francisco by train without his beloved wife Kit. "We don't feel good traveling on the same train together," he said. Recently, childless and bereft of Kit, he found life less worth living. To paraphrase the poet, "She first deceased ... he for a little tried/ To live without her ... liked it not and died...
...since they are more likely than men to be single in old age. That's partly because they have a longer life expectancy and tend to marry men older than themselves. Indeed, among people 85 and older, women outnumber men 5 to 2. For Anne Anderson, 72, a single, childless New Yorker, friends fill in for the family she lacks. "Friends help you through the bad times and make good times better," she says...
...Americans now work more than any other people--even the Japanese," notes Williams. That's 1,966 hours a year for the Americans vs. 1,889 for the Japanese, according to a 1999 study by the U.N. International Labor Organization. "The executive schedule today basically requires you to be childless or have a wife at home," says Williams...
However, while Burkett freely airs complaints from childless workers that they continually log longer hours so their colleagues can attend soccer games and school plays and cites a 1997 study documenting anger over family-centric policies at two companies, she ignores a finding in the same study--by Mary B. Young for the William Olsten Center for Workforce Strategies--that there was in fact no difference in the number of hours worked by parents and nonparents. Similarly, Burkett profiles a well-to-do mother who claims child-care tax credits for a job undertaken for "stimulation" but fails to acknowledge...