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...their part, many women fully expect to do their share as breadwinners, though not necessarily out of personal choice so much as financial need. "Of course we will work," says Kimberly Heimert, 21, of Germantown, Tenn., a senior at American University. "What are we going to do? Stay at home? When I get married, I expect to contribute 50% of my family's income...
...factory. With wave after wave of cheap immigrant labor available during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, even middle-class families had nannies. Nor is there anything new about day-care centers. In the 1820s 40% of all three-year-olds in Massachusetts were going to "infant schools," though such institutions fell out of favor within a decade...
...feminist movement has always insisted that women's liberation must go hand in hand with changing roles for men, particularly at home. Such changes are coming about, though women still do the lion's share of the den keeping. Not only are fathers present in the birthing room (90% are there, as opposed to 10% twenty years ago) and willing to change diapers, but their entire job has been reinterpreted from passive bill payer to activist player. "It's no longer seen as unmasculine to be caring for young children," says Hanne Sonquist, a family therapist in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...only hospital for women, in Lexington, Ky., has not consistently employed a full-time obstetrician-gynecologist -- a shocking deficiency given that Justice Department figures show that 1 in 4 women entering prison is pregnant or has recently given birth. Pregnant inmates typically get little or no prenatal care, though many are drug abusers with a high risk of medical complications...
About 80% of women entering state prisons are mothers, 85% with custody of their children. By contrast, 60% of male state prisoners are fathers, and less than half have custodial responsibility. Though a convicted drug dealer hardly fits the stereotype of a good mother, jailed mothers say separation from their offspring is the harshest punishment. Their alternatives are grim: put the children up for adoption, release them for foster care or, most often, leave them with relatives...