Raising our kids and being an entrepreneur wasn’t easy. Being in a startup and having a successful relationship and family was very hard work. But entrepreneurs can be great spouses and parents.
Steve Blank • Steve Blank Epitaph for an Entrepreneur
The dot at the centre of this symbol is the child, and the circle around it is the mother. This kinship pair is the centre of our society. That circular symbol is one of the oldest in human history and can be found etched and painted on rock all around the world. The purpose of any sustainable society is to protect and nurture this most important o
... See moreTyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
In the public imagination, the nuclear family still looms large as the de facto template for “home.” But the numbers tell a different story. In 2016, there were roughly 582,000 noncensus family households across Canada—homes of two or more people outside of parent-child or partnered relationships. South of the border, more than one-third of US adul... See more
Kelli Maria Korducki • The Rise of the Roommate | The Walrus
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Same-sex couples have a much more equitable share of the unpaid labour… until they become parents,8 which shows that gender stereotypes are only part of the problem.
Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
‘Choice is a mythical unicorn to mothers. Instead a mother must make decisions within a very constrained framework, choosing between the only possible option for financial…
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Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
As of 2014, America ceased to have a dominant family structure (what many of us used to imagine as two parents with 2.5 kids). Diversity and fluidity have shot up, driven by cohabitation, divorce, remarriage and non-marital recoupling. In one study over a three-year period, about a third of kids who were younger than six years old had already exper
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