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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Are working moms happier than stay-at-home moms?
Think you’d be happier if you stayed at home with the kids full-time?
Maybe not.
Working moms are as happy or slightly happier than stay-at-home moms, according to “The Harried Life of the Working Mother,” a reported released last week by the Pew Research Center.
Though many working women feel conflicted about the competing roles they play as mother and laborer, they basically are just as happy as their counterparts who stay at home with the kids, the center found.
Thirty-six percent of working moms said they were “very happy” with their lives, according a 2008 Pew Research Center survey. An equal number of stay-at-home moms reported being “very happy.”
Forty-nine percent of working moms reported being “pretty happy” compared to 44 percent of stay-a-home moms.
Fourteen percent of both groups reported being “not too happy.”
Seventy-eight percent of working moms said they were “very satisfied” with their family life compared to 75 percent of stay-at-home moms.
Women make up nearly half of the workforce, up from 38 percent in 1970, the study says.
Fifty-nine percent of women now work or are actively seeking employment. About 75 percent work full-time and about 25 percent work part-time, according to the study.
What do you think?
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Levi Johnston “protected” by pistachios in new ad, Is it funny or tacky?
Looks like Levi J. may just build his fortune and fame one nut at a time.
Bristol Palin’s baby daddy is up to his eyes in controversy. This time it has to do with the protective power of pistachios.
In the ad for Wonderful Pistachios, paparazzi snap photos as the caribou hunter and his body guard walk and Levi enjoys the wonders of pistachios.
The announcer says: “Now Levi Johnston does it with protection.”
The “joke” is:
A) Pistachios have protective shells. A protective shell is something Johnston apparently didn’t have when he impregnated Bristol, the daughter of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
B) Paparazzi would bothering snapping photos of Levi.
Burn!
Either way you have to give it to Levi. The precious cherub is trying really, really, really hard to be a star.
The 19-year-old’s attorney announced Wednsday, Oct. 7, that Levi will appear in PlayGirl.
He appeared in GQ and hung out with Kathy Griffin at the Teen Choice Awards.
What do you think?
Is the ad funny or in bad taste?
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“Whatever” named the most annoying word in the nation… whatever
Want to annoy someone? Say “whatever.”
“Whatever” is the most annoying word in the union, according to a Marist College poll released Wednesday, Oct. 7.
Whatever (pronounce it “WHAT’-ehv-errr” if you really, really want to be annoying) was named most annoying word by 47 percent of those polled by the college in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
People in the Midwest were particularly annoyed by “whatever.” Fifty-five percent of Midwesterners selected it as the most annoying word.
Whatever beat the competition easily nationally.
“You know,” was named most annoying by 25 percent of respondents.
“Anyway” was named by 7 percent or respondents, “it is what it is” by 11 percent and “at the end of the day” by 2 percent.
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