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Wives Do More Housework, Study Shows
Tweet Share on Facebook April 7, 2008 Comment (36)"Having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women!" announces a press release from the University of Michigan. "A wife saves men from about an hour of housework a week!" (OK, I added the exclamation points, but you can imagine the anger and marital spats triggered by these new findings from an ongoing survey of nearly 8,000 U.S. families.) Check out the chart below.
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Domestic Abuse Linked to Poor Health, Years Later
Tweet Share on Facebook April 4, 2008 Comment (24)I didn't want to read the news story about Amy Castillo, the Maryland mother whose estranged husband drowned their three young children in a hotel room last Saturday. I didn't want to read that the family court judge refused to deny the father unsupervised visitation because Castillo continued to have sex with him after he talked about killing the children just to hurt her.
I can only surmise what this poor woman would have done had she known that he would most certainly carry out his threats. Shooting him in cold blood would have been an understandable option. (I say this as a mother of three kids.)
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Clinical Trials: Women Needed
Tweet Share on Facebook April 2, 2008 Comment (9)As a young girl growing up in Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, Venus Ginés recalled her mother telling her, "Don't trust doctors. They'll use you like guinea pigs." Divorced and single, her mother had been pressured by her doctor into undergoing tubal sterilization as a form of birth control, with reassurances that the procedure was fully reversible. (It's usually not.) In fact, reading up on this later, I was shocked to learn that many Latina women in the United States and the American territory of Puerto Rico got their tubes tied during that time—often without even knowing that they would become infertile—in a misguided and racist effort by the U.S. government to control population growth. Despite that history, Ginés worked up the courage 15 years ago to enter a clinical trial for the breast cancer drug tamoxifen after treatment for the disease. But frustrated by the paperwork and the time away from work, she soon dropped out; "no one called to ask me why," Ginés said during a press conference yesterday in which Baylor College of Medicine and the Intercultural Cancer Council announced new recommendations to increase the participation of women and minorities in research trials.
