{"id":50,"date":"2007-03-05T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2007-03-05T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T14:06:00","slug":"only-childom-issues-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/03\/05\/only-childom-issues-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Childom Issues in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two interesting pieces in the news last week pertaining to onlydom:<\/p>\n<p>One on China:<br \/><a>China: Reining in the Rich on One-Child Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And one that reflects on work\/family policy here in the US:<br \/><a>The Motherhood Experiment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very clever the way this second piece, by Sharon Lerner, links women&#8217;s work\/life issues, fertility rates, and national policy.  Lerner notes that the U.S., with its largely hands-off approach to family policy, spends far less than other wealthy countries on child care while guaranteeing no paid parental leave&#8211;all of which leads women to feel that they must choose either work or motherhood.  &#8220;As a result,&#8221; she concludes, &#8220;being an employed parent may be more difficult here than in countries now experiencing even the most severe baby droughts.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s the part I love: Counter to the rhetoric of family-values champions, the promotion of larger families and the promotion of women&#8217;s careers may go hand in hand.  Keep an eye out for Lerner&#8217;s book&#8211;it sounds smart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two interesting pieces in the news last week pertaining to onlydom: One on China:China: Reining in the Rich on One-Child Policy And one that reflects on work\/family policy here in the US:The Motherhood Experiment Very clever the way this second piece, by Sharon Lerner, links women&#8217;s work\/life issues, fertility rates, and national policy. Lerner notes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21671],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-only-children"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}