Which Way, L.A.?
Balancing Work and Family
American mothers who work full time say it's harder than ever to raise kids. Can they give their children what the youngsters need? How can full-time parents balance work and family? Do they have any choice?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readLarry Hugick: Director of media and political surveys at Princeton Survey Research Associates which just conducted a survey for the Pew Center for the People & the Press titled: As American Women See It: Motherhood today: A Tougher job, Less Ably Done. Arlie Hochschild: Professor of Sociology at U.C. Berkeley; author of a new book The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home & Home Becomes Work. Dana Mack: Affiliate scholar with the New York-based Institute for American Values and author of The Assault on Parenthood: How Our Culture Undermines the Family Simon & Schuster. Susan Troy: General counsel of Federated Linen & Uniform Services, a business owned by her family for 100 years; president of the Constitutional Rights Foundation. Susan was a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Manatt, Phelps; a former governor of the State Bar of California; the former president of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles. Her husband is a world reknown molecular biologist at UCLA. They have two daughters. [I.e., the woman who has it all.] Lucia Hodgson: Director of the Gaylord Donnelley Children and Youth Studies Center at The Crossroads School in Santa Monica, and author of Raised in Captivity: Why Does America Fail Its Children? to be published this fall by, Graywolf Press; Hodgson had an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times last week titled Work Outranks Children: Putting More Poor Kids in Child Care May Benefit Our Family-Hostile economy, But It's not What's Best for Them. [I.e., you can't have it all and you shouldn't try.] Iris Krasnow: Author of Surrendering to Motherhood: Losing Your Mind, Finding Your Soul. Little Brown/Hyperion. James Levine: Director of the Fatherhood Project at the Family and Work Institute; author of a new book called Working Fathers: New Strategies for Balancing Work and Family (Addison-Wesley). On Tuesday, Working Mother Magazine will honor him as one of the top 25 men in the coutnry who have made a contribution to working parents. Vivian Weinstein: President of Los Angeles City Commission on Children, Youth, and their Families, and she's a member of the County Child Care Advisory Board. Mike Feuer: Los Angeles City Councilman representing the 5th District; Feuer proposed an ordinance today to regulate the sale of ammunition.
topic: Local gun and ammunition control
