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  • Leave No Myth Behind

    In January of 2006 Newsweek put four white boys on their cover with the headline ''The Boy Crisis.'' Inside they told the tale that was so shocking that the myth grew so fast that the factual evidence that quickly came out was ignored. What was this myth? That boys were being left behind. By almost every benchmark, boys across the nation and in ...
    Posted to The Red Thread (Weblog) by Veronica Arreola on May 21, 2008
  • Do we owe it to each other to work outside the home?

    The dreaded ''Mommy Wars'' usually pits working moms against stay at home moms. It took the genius of Sylvia Ann Hewitt and Linda Hirshman to top it off with a dollop of guilt. Hewitt began the baby panic with her 2002 book castigating us career gals with not having babies before we hit our ancient 30s. My all time favorite response was from ...
    Posted to The Red Thread (Weblog) by Veronica Arreola on July 16, 2007
  • Media, Myth, and Murder

    What does the Mommy Wars, the Summer of the Shark, and the Summer of Stranger Abductions have in common? All creations of the mainstream media. The facts are that most women who have children flow in and out of the workforce and even those who are classified as stay-at-home run businesses (Avon, Tupperware) or are freelance ...
    Posted to The Red Thread (Weblog) by Veronica Arreola on July 8, 2007
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