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The mother of all issues: what it will take to put work and family on the national agenda.

American Prospect, The,  March, 2007  by Draut, Tamara

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GENERATION X HAS GROWN up. Its members and their personalities consumed our nation's attention in the 1980s, when it seemed this generation would go down in history as a group of spoiled slackers. Then in the late 1990s, the generation written off as a bunch of yahoos became the generation behind Yahoo. Now age 26 to 40, the generation that once was the subject of so much self-righteous finger-wagging is the core of America's young families.

The average age a woman in this country has her first child is 25; and two out of three children younger than five are raised by parents ...

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