The Baby Boon: How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless"Burkett reports from the front lines of the work-place: from the hallowed newsroom of The New York Times to the floor of a textile factory in North Carolina to a hospital in Boston. She exposes a simmering backlash against perks for parents, from workers who are losing their tempers and fighting for their rights. She spells out how tax breaks for families with six-figure incomes are not available to childless people earning half as much. And she tells the dramatic story of how pro-family conservatives and feminists became strange bedfellows on the issue of pro-family rights, leading to an increase in workplace and government entitlement for parents - at the same time as the childless poor lost their public benefits.". |
Contents
All Animals Are Equal | 1 |
Americas New FamilyFriendly Face | 23 |
Pregnant Payoffs 62 | 62 |
PART | 89 |
Family Frenzy | 118 |
The Maternal Mystique | 147 |
No Kidding | 179 |
When the Bough Breaks | 199 |
Notes | 219 |
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