Family


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 story

Terminating Pregnant Employees

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

Pregnancy in the Workplace

Related Terms: Family and Medic...  Read story

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 story

What Companies Are Doing About Child Care

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

Birth Watch

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

And Baby Makes Two

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

Family-Run Child-Care Center

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

It Doesn't Add Up

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

The Office: What to Expect When They’re Expecting

One day you look around, and the place is full of pregnant women.  Read story

Pregnancy Claim Settlements Rise

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

Working Fathers

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

Back to Work

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

Child Care

Related Terms: Career and Family ; Read story

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 story

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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 story

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 story

Deja Vu All Over Again

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

Child Care Matures

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

" My focus is my children."

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

Family Values in Small Business

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

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 story

Worker Rights and Incentives

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

Kid Stuff

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

Your Business or Your Life

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

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 story

Paying Your Kids' Tuition

Some personal-financial experts offer strategies for business owners to pay for college for their kids.  Read story

Power Moms

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

Mom-in-Chief a Six-Figure Job

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

Upstarts: Mompreneurs

Motherhood is a decidedly creative process-and in more than just the biological way. Here's a sampling of the numerous start-up ideas it has given birth to, ...  Read story

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 story

Protecting The Interest On Series "e" Bonds

Here is a neat little gimmick that can prevent taxes on all those Series "E" Savings Bonds that Aunt Martha gave your kids: At the end of each year, file ...  Read story

Mommy Track

Analysis of a for-profit association designed to give young mothers information, services, and purchasing power.  Read story

Physician, Heal Thyself

A quote from 'Business Insurance,' Aug. 9, 1993, on a doctors' practice that couldn't get health insurance.  Read story