The Philippines’ migrant workers, and the children left behind
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The Philippines’ migrant workers, and the children left behind
This growing decline in familial support for raising children—and college-educated women becoming the lynchpin for knowledge work in America— meant that demand for paid family services has increased dramatically. In the 1990s and 2000s, this question of how to support working parents became another front in the culture war.
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