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There you have it, ladies....get to work and throw your kids in daycare.
1 posted on 05/15/2006 8:48:58 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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No, lets just let the State raise our kids. It is what the feminazi's and all the rest of the commie scum want anyway. It's written in their manifesto.


2 posted on 05/15/2006 8:51:10 AM PDT by vpintheak (What's worse, a liberal, or a know it all posing as a Conservative?)
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Ya, I wonder how the children fared? But who cares about them?

What an idiotic study. Anyone can be thinner and healthier, it takes self discipline.

3 posted on 05/15/2006 8:51:19 AM PDT by yellowdoghunter (I sometimes only vote for Republicans because they are not Democrats....by Dr. Thomas Sowell)
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I find this very difficult to believe. Since when dos sitting behind a desk trying to juggle family and work make one thinner and healthier?

And one thing is for certain: The kids are typically much worse off when their mom works outside the home.


4 posted on 05/15/2006 8:53:45 AM PDT by Peach
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This is BOGUS...lots of heavy weights with kids are working. Trust In Hoc on this, he sees the tons'o fun...everyday :-)


5 posted on 05/15/2006 8:56:28 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
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Gee, and all along I thought weight gain was about calorie intake vs output. I guess I should just start eating bon bons, getting fat is inevitable since I stay at home.


7 posted on 05/15/2006 8:57:18 AM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (I would personally like to thank the creator of nontoxic, washable markers. Genius!)
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Women who juggle career and family tend to be thinner and healthier as they approach midlife than long-term stay-at-home moms, a new study suggests.

The children however, are screwed up at much higher rates.

8 posted on 05/15/2006 8:58:14 AM PDT by Protagoras ("Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious".... George Orwell)
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Working Moms Better Than Stay at Homes

Why didn't they just use that as the headline? It seems to be pretty much what they meant.

9 posted on 05/15/2006 8:58:19 AM PDT by L98Fiero (I'm worth a million in prizes.)
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The important question is, are the kids happier and healthier?



Actually, this is a misleading study. It all depends on person to person, mother-to-mother.


10 posted on 05/15/2006 8:58:53 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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Funny, what I've seen is just the opposite. The stay-at-home moms in our neighborhood have a lot more spare time to take walks, go to exercise class, swim, garden, etc. The working moms are so exhausted from work that they have neither the time nor the energy to get much exercise, so they gain weight.

The researchers are just confusing correlation with causality once again. The difference in weight is not related to working but to social class. The upper-middle class is more likely to chuck their kids into daycare and go off to be executives and lawyers all day, and they're also the ones who tend to be thin for social reasons. Working class folks tend to be heavier. They're also more likely to stay home with their kids, partly due to good values and sheer love of their children, and partly because they don't make enough money to make daycare financially viable. The same stay-at-home moms who are heavier would be heavier if they went back to work; work doesn't make you lose weight. On the contrary.


11 posted on 05/15/2006 8:59:23 AM PDT by Fairview
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and the kids suffer increased teen prenancy, drug addiction, and juevinle criminality
12 posted on 05/15/2006 9:00:05 AM PDT by Jontherocks
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I wonder if they did a study of those women who had children before their twenties that went to work in their 30's after the kids were raised.

Or how about the women who had career during their 20's and 30's and gave birth in their 40's and stayed home with the kids.

Too many variables.


13 posted on 05/15/2006 9:00:56 AM PDT by colorcountry (He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.)
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"Working Moms Healthier, Thinner Than Stay at Homes"

Funny, the word 'happier' appears to be missing. :o)

14 posted on 05/15/2006 9:02:08 AM PDT by Troublemaker
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I just celebrated Mothers Day by competing in my first Triathlon.

Curiously, I was in WORSE shape when I was a cubicle jockey.

16 posted on 05/15/2006 9:04:38 AM PDT by RepoGirl ("That boy just ain't right..." Hank Hill)
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Are working women thinner?

As a group, perhaps.


Are they "healthier"?

I seriously doubt it.


18 posted on 05/15/2006 9:04:45 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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My stay-at-home wife is thinner and healthier because she makes time to plan great meals, walk on her treadmill or take the kids for walks. Oh, by the way, Our kids are 3 and 1 year old and she babysits an 18 month old 3 days a week.
Did I mention that she gave up her career in orthodontia to be a mom?


19 posted on 05/15/2006 9:05:25 AM PDT by SteelCurtain_SSN720 (If you pass the rabid child, say "hammer down" for me)
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My gosh...so defensive, and paranoid. This article is just stating a fact. It's not advocating anything.


21 posted on 05/15/2006 9:09:25 AM PDT by Hildy ("Whenever someone smiles at me all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life." - Dwight Schrute)
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I suspect this study did NOT separate "stay-at-home" moms into two groups --

(1) "stay at home" moms on the dole, and
(2) "stay at home" moms who are in a stable marriage and whose husbands are the breadwinners (not the nanny state).

Group 2, I believe, are far less likely to be obese than group 1.

But lump them together, and you get a misleading statistic that suits the purposes of the elitist left.

27 posted on 05/15/2006 9:17:31 AM PDT by shhrubbery! (Max Boot: Joe Wilson has sold more whoppers than Burger King)
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Working Moms Healthier, Thinner Than Stay at Homes
Not the ones who work for the government(s).
28 posted on 05/15/2006 9:18:50 AM PDT by lewislynn (Fairtax = lies, hope, wishful thinking, conjecture and lies. (no it's not a mistake)
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Sorry, but here in MN you're likely to be overweight whether you're married, at home, at work, a championship swimmer or a homeless starving bum.


38 posted on 05/15/2006 9:39:10 AM PDT by AmericanChef
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I wish studies and surveys and polls would stop telling me how my life is.


39 posted on 05/15/2006 9:39:24 AM PDT by HOTTIEBOY (AIXELSYD TAEB I)
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