Research on the child welfare work force suggests that workers are emotionally exhausted and burnt out from work-related stress.
In the 1970's, however, as mothers of young children poured into the work force, child care expenditures shot up.
With 78percentt of mothers of school-age children in the work force, and welfare reform pushing more into jobs, millions of children are on their own between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., the hours when youth are most likely to commit crime -- or be victimized by it.
"The boomer generation is seeing their parents come to the end of their lives, their children enter the work force and they are thinking about their own jobs and what they cared about when they started," she said.
We can recognize that many adult children joining the work force are in real trouble: despite the triumphalism on Wall Street, we see them overworked and mostly underpaid, without secure futures or pensions and, as a result, delaying marriage, children and, for us, grandchildren.
What's supposed to happen when today's neglected children become tomorrow's work force?
Income growth is the one dynamic that we know can persuade parents to take their children out of the work force and put them in school.
As the typical "heart of the house", as well as the ones able to create, grow, and eventually give birth to children, women in the work force have a lot on their plates, both inside of the office and out.
With regard to family-friendly policies, both GlaxoSmithKline and Eli Lilly were recognized by Working Mother magazine as two of the top 100 companies in America, based on measures of work force, compensation, child care, leave policies, and the like.
We choose, again and again, to ignore the very real needs of the significant proportion of the work force with children at home.
