Child Care
A Polish Priest’s War Against Abortion Focuses on Helping Single Mothers
SZCZECIN, Poland — Abortion has been banned in Poland for 29 years, but that has done little to prevent women from finding access to the procedure, leaving the Rev. Tomasz Kancelarczyk a busy man. The Roman Catholic priest plays ultrasound audio of what he describes as fetal heartbeats in his sermons to dissuade women considering […]
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How a Flight Attendant Became a Funeral Planner in the Covid Era
HONG KONG — Before she became a funeral planner, Connie Wong was a flight attendant for a Hong Kong airline. The sudden end of a career she had cherished for six years brought its own kind of grief, she said. It was one of many such losses experienced by residents of the Chinese territory. Hong […]
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Jobs Aplenty, but a Shortage of Care Keeps Many Women From Benefiting
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. A dearth of child care and elder care choices is causing many women to reorganize their working lives and prompting some to forgo jobs altogether, hurting the economy at a moment when companies are desperate to hire, […]
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Parents of Kids Under 5 Stuck in Grueling Covid Limbo
HOUSTON — Twice last year, Margaret Schulte and her husband, Jason Abercrombie, traveled 11 hours round-trip to Louisiana from their home in Tulsa, Okla., in the hopes of vaccinating their children, who were 2 and 4, against the coronavirus. The only way they could get shots for their children — among the more than 19 […]
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