Work hours is especially important in the case of maternal gatekeeping. When there is a difference in work hours for the spouses, there will be a difference in the time able to spend with their children. The "shift-worker" couples in Ranson (2010) all had the fathers and mothers accommodate their work hours, so they can be the caregivers. ... Due to work hours, the time for Denise to spend with her son, Daniel, is substantially lower than Gary. ... The study took a sample from employed mothers in dual-earner families with preschool-age children that each work an average of around thi...

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I awoke up and since it was a Saturday, I didn't had school, so I ate breakfast relaxed, I turned on the television and started playing my video game, hours passed and nothing of my parents arrive, my anxiety grew, did not even see clearly the image that skirt from that small and old TV,quite old with the ones we have today. ... We arrived early to the hospital and waited for almost one hour to get my mother in preparation to be called to a room. ... We stayed there for almost an hour, having conversations about my brother that would be called Luigi, something that we had already set when...

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For the duration of Brandon's childhood he expended numerous hours in these after school and summer sports programs and was determined to be an exceptional player in all areas of these activities. ... Brandon spent numerous hours at the baseball field, basketball court, football field and tennis court coaching and mentoring the youth in his community and giving back the knowledge and work ethics that he had received from his coaches and mentors. ...

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The research from the opponents found that men who reduce their work hours or take time off for family reasons were experienced lower earnings from work than they usually do or lower than their colleagues who choose the job over their family reasons (Coltrane, 2013). ...

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Organic farming is not easy it requires a lot of manual labor, intensive hours and extreme love of what you are doing. Masumoto's dad posses a drive to work and a deep believe in the value of perseverance this has always defined him, all the intensive hours and hard work took it's toll on him one night when a massive stroke strike him in the fields, the stroke landed him in the hospital in a coma that could of lead to a vegetable state in the book Masumoto makes a really interesting analogy he compares his dad with a vegetable and he said this might be a better since they work in a f...

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Imagine that you are a new principal at an elementary school that has an enrollment of approximately 600 students. It is the beginning of the school year - a year in which you will become actively involved in the lives of teachers, students, and parents. You have acquired a wealth of knowledge of ...

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Review of Literature According to Samuel Kojo Antobam from the International Union for the Scientific Study population, "The effect of parental absence on a child's educational attainments is mixed" and that when "children are left at home for more than three hours a day after school, they exhibit signs of low self-esteem, low academic performance and depression".( 2014) There are many studies presented in previous literature that address the impact of absent parent homes and a child's upbringing, and that having a parent missing from the home can have consequences in a chi...

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