Family

Pregnancy Claim Settlements Rise

A 1978 law is increasingly regarded as "an available remedy."  Read more

Terminating Pregnant Employees

Can you terminate an employee who is pregnant during her probation period?  Read more

Management Skills for Home and Office

Business Dad: How Good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa) by Tom Hirschfeld with Julie Hirschfeld. Little, Brown, 278 pa...  Read more

It Doesn't Add Up

A CEO discusses the low salaries offered to child-care professionals, and how this trend can be reversed.  Read more

Family-Run Child-Care Center

Financial summary and brief description of a child-care center.  Read more

And Baby Makes Two

Woman invents the Empathy Belly, a 35-pound padded vest meant to bring the realities of pregnancy to wearers.  Read more

Birth Watch

New business offers mail-order pregnancy calendar full of relevant facts and tips.  Read more

What Companies Are Doing About Child Care

With more women in the work force, companies are offering a wide range of benefits  Read more

Baby Talk;

TAMARA BULEY MISSED SEVERal days of work as a saleswoman in a clothing store because she didn't feel well. She soon found out she was pregnant. The comp...  Read more

Pregnancy in the Workplace

Related Terms: Family and Medic...  Read more

Working Fathers

A reprint from a current book called Working Fathers: New Strategies for Balancing Work and Family.  Read more

Back to Work

Help new mothers make the transition back to work by offering benefits that can help keep them focused.  Read more

Child Care

Related Terms: Career and Family ; Read more

Extended Parental Leave Irks Co-workers

September 12, 2005 --Executive moms and dads risk workplace resentment for taking time off to raise their kids, a recent survey showed.Read more

Child Care Matures

A chain of child care centers focusing on high quality innovative programs.  Read more

Deja Vu All Over Again

Summary of the mandated benefits debate and the uncertain outcome both locally and nationally  Read more

Troubles

We applaud your January cover story, "The Trouble with Kids." The recognition of this problem is long overdue and much needed. As adolescent therapists an...  Read more

Kinder-Care's Parry Mendel ("Kinder-Care's Standard Formula for Success," October 1981) is to be commended for proving that child care standardization is ...  Read more

" My focus is my children."

For one restaurateur, there's always room at the table for family.  Read more

How to Recession-Proof Your Kids

In a tough economy, talking about money and investing can be more important than a primer on the birds and the bees. Here are some simple lessons you should ...  Read more

Family-Friendly Office

Child care for two-career couples and single parents is one of the most daunting issues that parents and businesses face. Some large companies have onsite...  Read more

Making a Success of Succession

Black Enterprise is going to be 30 years old in August 2000. Not a lot of American companies, let alone African-American companies, reach that a...  Read more

Kid Care

When corporations think about helping their employees with child care, an on-site center always seems to come up first. I liked "Kid Stuff" (Benefits, Sep...  Read more

How (Even A Long) Vacation Helps My Start-Up

Entrepreneur Eileen P. Gunn writes about taking time off from her new family travel website to go to Germany with, you guessed it, her family.  Read more

Leaving Property to Young Children

Most parents, at one time or another, give serious thought to what would happen to their children in the unhappy - and very unlikely - event that one or b...  Read more

Worker Rights and Incentives

Mixing cocktails and pregnant employees; cost-effective perks.  Read more

Great Moments In Recruiting

PART 3 And the Father-in-Law Didn't Even Ask for Equity At 16, the Baltimore native got his first job developing a telegraph machine. He rose ...  Read more

Family Values in Small Business

Chart showing percentage of companies which offer employee leave or unpaid parental leave.  Read more

Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Dad I Learned From Being a CEO

OK, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration -- my only child is 7 1/2 months old and I'm barely able to keep up with her. But there are a lot of things that I'...  Read more

A Tie-in with Big Brands

Two entrepreneurs who made a successful pitch to Warner-Lambert to co-market their product share their strategy.  Read more

Your Business or Your Life

A business coach and author gives entrepreneurs a way to make a family plan alongside a business plan.  Read more

Power Moms

A recent study says that young working mothers want more responsibility on the job than ever.  Read more

Mom-in-Chief a Six-Figure Job

New survey suggests that a mother's responsibilities and skills can transfer into high paying jobs.  Read more

Kid Stuff

How to create affordable alternatives to on-site day care  Read more

Why You Should Take Your Kids to Work

This month is a good time to focus on creating a true work-life balance atmosphere in your organization. Today is "Take Our Daughters And Sons To ...  Read more

Parents Who Worry Less Work More

Not every company has the time, interest, or recources to get into the child-care business. Still, a recent study by the National Employer Supported Chil...  Read more

New Year, New You

New Year, New You As the calendar flips to a new year, its blank pages offer us an opportunity to make a fresh start. What's on your list of r...  Read more