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  • Motley Fool Columnist: Why Americans Should Stop Whining and Be Thankful

    Motley Fool Columnist: Why Americans Should Stop Whining and Be Thankful0

    • August 21, 2015

    Last year, prompted by Louis C.K.’s bit on the Conan O’Brien show, Morgan Housel at the Motley Fool put together a list titled “50 Reasons We’re Living Through the Greatest Period in World History.” Below are his first 10 reasons: 1. U.S. life expectancy at birth was 39 years in 1800, 49 years in 1900, 68 years

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  • Mothers: Raising One of the Few Hopes We Have for the Future

    Mothers: Raising One of the Few Hopes We Have for the Future0

    When asked for some of my favorite books over the years, one of the titles I regularly recommend is Mother, written by Kathleen Norris in 1911. Although somewhat obscure and rather old, I love suggesting this book because its subtle message is extremely prescient for our time, and one that I believe gets to the heart of

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  • Mothers Are Not Widgets

    Mothers Are Not Widgets0

    Women are only as valuable as their GDP contribution allows. This is the message emanating from a new Canadian study on the female workforce and economic growth. The report, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper entitled, “Women Are Key for Future Growth: Evidence from Canada,” finds that “an increase in female labor force participation

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  • Motherhood: Why Society is Making it the Most Stress-Ridden Career

    Motherhood: Why Society is Making it the Most Stress-Ridden Career0

    An op-ed published last week in the New York Times has confirmed that motherhood is the most controversial and stress-ridden career of the 21st century. Author Kim Brooks knows this better than most. For her, it all started with a knock on the door by a police officer with a warrant for her arrest. The

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  • Motherhood: What Women Really Want (and Many Aren’t Getting)

    Motherhood: What Women Really Want (and Many Aren’t Getting)0

    I recently ran across an ABC News article by Jessica Mendoza, a mother of two. As an analyst for ESPN, Mendoza has a pretty high-profile, demanding job to balance with her role as a mother. Yet in spite of these demands, Mendoza decided to add something else to her plate a few years ago: homeschooling.

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  • Motherhood: The Ideal vs Reality

    Motherhood: The Ideal vs Reality0

    When I was pregnant, my husband gifted me with a book called “No more perfect moms”. While I am by no means a perfectionist, he knew that I would have high expectations of myself as a mother – basically that I was subconsciously assuming that I would be able to slot in the whole ‘having

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