By Sean Coughlan — 2017
Mothers earn 3% per hour less for each child they have compared with women working in similar jobs who do not have children, say researchers.
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There is enough room in our spiritual expressions not only for all of the love we feel for our families, but also for the hectic, distracted chaos that so often defines parenting small children — if we are willing to expand our understanding of what religious expression is, and can be.
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