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Globalization: Children and working parents pay too high a price

parents with middle school or less education.

  • Working conditions that allowed parents to take leave from work either due to paid leave or flexibility halved the risk of parents having to leave children home alone sick. Fifteen percent of parents who had either flexibility or paid leave for childcaring had to leave children home alone sick, compared to 29 percent of parents who had neither paid leave nor flexibility.

    Marian Wright Edelman, CEO and Founder of the Children's Defense Fund, calls this series of studies "a powerful and overdue wake-up call about the enormous challenges and awful choices working families around the world face. We can and must do better for all of our children."

    Forgotten Families goes further than documenting problems; this new study sheds light on what can be done to find solutions and take advantage of the opportunities for families, businesses and nations - created by globalization. Highlighting lessons from countries that have -- with far fewer resources than the United States -- implemented policies to improve conditions for working families, Forgotten Families asserts that only by embracing solutions that are truly global can we improve the lives of working families everywhere.


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    • Contact: Christina Roache
    croache@hsph.harvard.edu
    617-432-6052
    Harvard School of Public Health
    27-Feb-2006


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