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Well, what are you…

Well, what are you supposed to say instead of a sentence like “Where’s the Party at?” You could just drop the preposition and say “Where’s the Party?” but that doesn’t have the same meaning. You could try to fix it by saying “At where is the Party,” but, well, as Winston Churchill said, “This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.”

Thanks, Flute. This is…

Thanks, Flute. This is a fascinating piece you’ve forwarded and worthy of a lot of discussion.

One thing, though: it’s important to remember that every mother is a working mother. Childcare and housework are work, too, and important work, even though they’re not counted as a formal “job.” The study tells us something about how mothers doing different kinds of work structure their work lives; it doesn’t tell us anything about working vs. non-working mothers.