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In this case, we have a woman, Melissa Scott Jenkins, who is the mother of three children, each with a different father ( FoxNews , 7/31/09). In 2008, she pleaded guilty to willfully fracturing the skull of her infant son by striking it on a surface. For that she was sentenced to 29 days of work release and fined $75.50. Prior to that incident, the boy was either in state custody or that of his father, and Jenkins had visitation rights. Now a second of Jenkins's sons, eight-year-old Rob
Here's a new study on the British parental leave system ( BBC, 7/14/09). Unsurprisingly, it finds that the U.K.'s system of paid parental leave encourages women to stay at home with the kids and fathers to return to work following the birth of a child. Current leave policy provides mothers six months of paid leave, but fathers only two weeks. By the standards of continental Europe, that's generous toward women and parsimonious toward men. And of course it promotes traditional male/female
