THE AMERICAN WOMAN

TIME (2009) 10/26

GIBBS 24-33

TIME magazine and the NBC stations (NBC, CNBC, MSNBC) report through numerous researchers and the

lead reporter Maria Schriver that Women are happier today and yet more stressed out than reported in the past. The causes are numerous, but the one most indicated is the theory of the SECOND SHIFT. This means that when going to work that when they return home there is more to do around the house. It is not fairly shared with their husband or partner.

One of the key questions, dealt with a female being happy and single. Overwhelmingly this was supported by women but not men.

It is hard to determine all the underlying causes, but females no longer see that marriage unto itself will provide happiness. Men are ruttish, but more helpful in the past, but the labor is still not divided equally. For women, it may mean in the future, that they want a child but not a husband. That is not, given other variables, the best choice for the children.

In another way, women want a male that is a good father to her children. Men want a sexual friend. Neither gets their ideal.

Nearly 4 in 10 women enter parenting as a single parent. Again, there are correlations that this is not good for the child or children.

Overall the statistics appear that women and men are coming together in a lot of areas in both the family and at work.

All the details are accessible to the reader on the TIME website. It appears to this editor that the questions are

more superficial but necessary.

I think that what is a head is the women will find men as another child to take care of. Further, if men do not help, it is easier to get the males money than have a male around the house. That may be good for the mother, but bad for the kids.

If that is the case, what may happen is that mom has a child, lives with a cluster of other mothers and dates a male. The male is good for money and he is good for discipline if it is necessary. The Mother cluster than helps each other so that together they do what live-in fathers did in the past.

I am not advocating this, but it appears that families will emerge along this path. Another is what we have now. That is serial

monogamy. Mom and Dad marry and divorce, they both marry someone else. The genealogy gets complex.

Further, if a mother has only one child. She and the biological father can weather the storms of life. The family then looks like

Mom, child, and dog. Fathers come and go. Or, fathers live some where else, return home for chores, and payments to mother, and then leaves again. He stores his stuff in a certain area of the apartment or house. He must constantly be checked

for diseases. If it is one child, the father and child maintain some kind of relationship that is on going. Second child may be

from some one else and that disturbs the family stability if the child is from another father.

That is why I think that other forms of families will emerge along with the traditional family. What is the hardest is the constant contact between mother and father.

THE WEEK ( 2009) 10/23/24

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

Children born around 2000 could live to be 100. Or, 100 year olds become normal.

Even if calories are listed on a box or can. It doesn’t work.

Tamiflu, the medication to lessen the pain of H1N1, is then secreted into rivers and can give birth to even stronger

Flu strains.

Candy causes crime. There is a correlation between sweets and crime. However, the relationship may be between

impulsivity and crime.