Rosalind Barnett Quotes (4 Quotes)

There is so much being discussed out there on what can go wrong for your child. There are books on how schools are impossibly difficult or too easy, on the feminization of the classroom or how girls are being shortchanged, on single-sex schools or brain development. Every week there's another guru telling us what we should do with our kids. And I think it fuels a lot of anxiety on the part of parents.

What is happening is that marital problems are spilling into the workplace. And if these tensions persist over time, there could be serious health problems.

Certainly the price per year varies enormously with the age of the child. If you're talking about full-time care for a baby - that's a very expensive proposition. If you're talking about three hours after school for a 10-year-old - that's another proposition.

It's generally assumed that primary relationships are more critical to a women's psychological well-being than men's, but this is not the case. When there is marital concern, men and women are equally affected.