by Marie LaHaye, M.S. candidate and graduate research assistant, Project HOME, Family & Developmental Studies Program, Colorado State University
Imagine you have just retired from teaching and are looking forward to retirement and pursuing your own interests. Then, one afternoon, you receive a call from social services that your daughter has been arrested, so her two children are being placed in your care. What will you do?
In the year of the new millennium, Jerry's professional path crossed mine. Eleven years later, almost to the day, we mourn his passing. I salute him for having been an important mentor in my career, a man who was extremely generous with his professional knowledge and expertise, a man who touched the lives of thousands of students over several decades as a professor at Colorado State University.
A full day conference featuring experts, practicioners, researchers, and business leaders who will speak on various components of work-life and flexibility.
Whereas poor women used to migrate primarily to reunite with family, they are increasingly migrating in search of wages to support their children. This trend is rooted in an increased supply of poor women in the South who cannot secure living wages. But more importantly it is fueled by the feminization of the low-wage care industry in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, where there is a high demand for poor women to clean our homes, hospitals, and hotels and to care for our children. Women who cannot afford to be with their own children are migrating en masse to care for the children of others.
By Linda Burton and Andrew Cherlin. Reprinted from NCFR Report.
"Trust is jiggly, and it can look like something it is not. You can't trust trust, and you can't trust Jell-O. That's what I've learned from working with [low-income couples]."
At the 102nd Annual Conference & Expo, Linking Cultures, Enriching Lives, you'll have the opportunity to share knowledge, research, and experience on critical cultural issues affecting individuals, families, and communities.
