Teenage Employment

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So, I was examining some publications from UVa recently and found one really interesting. Up until I realized it was really from the gin mill run by Rick Berman. (I‘ve written about Rick Berman and his Employment Policies Institute . But, most of the time, the articles (biased and conclusions developed BEFORE the research is completed) are written by a different author. As such, I kept reading- and now will share them with you. I will be editorializing at points- but, as opposed to Berman’s minions, I will make sure you know when, where, and why.)

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Gender Equality and Our Children

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We always knew that the real life examples we provide are what really teach our kids.  Sometimes, our examples are what they want to emulate.  Sometimes, it’s the opposite of what they hope to see.  Now, it turns out that fathers sharing household duties are critical factors in the raising of daughters.

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SAA

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Psst.  Wake up.  I can’t stop going to the bathroom…

Those ten words changed my life forever.  In the middle of the night of the 21st of August, 1979, my (then) wife woke me to tell me those words.  I immediately knew she was not incontinent- but that her water had broken.  And, in a flash, I grabbed her bag (the one that had been packed for a few days- since the due date was 9 September), told her to dress, put on a pair of pants and a shirt and drove to Martha Jefferson Hospital.

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Gimme some Vitamin D

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Most people know that extreme vitamin D deficiency causes rickets (softening of bones, so they become distorted and bowed). Plus, even a moderate lack of vitamin D will exacerbate your risk of bone fractures. Vitamin D is not just about bones, though- with a shortage of this vitamin,  we leave ourselves more susceptible to infections, at risk to autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, and Sjoegren’s, and we even face the risk of developing certain cancers.

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