The cover story of [News Week] a couple issues ago was She Works, He Doesn't about Two Income Family-s who've become [One Income Family]-s due to the current recession, but now the man is home. *Many such couples have simply decided that no matter how much lip service companies pay to "family friendly" policies, it’s simply not possible to integrate two fast-track careers and kids without huge sacrifices. So they do a cold-eyed calculation, measuring the size and upside potential of each parent's paycheck, and opting to keep whoever's is larger. For the highest-achieving women, the trend is striking. Last fall Fortune reported that more than one third of its "50 Most Powerful WomEn in Business" have a stay-at-home man (it dubbed them "trophy husbands"). But this trend reaches women far below the executive-vice-president rank.*

• Or is this another symptom of a bigger issue of men failing to fit in with Civilizat Ion? "Girls are better able to deliver in terms of what modern society requires of people - paying attention, abiding by rules, being verbally competent, and dealing with interpersonal relationships in offices," says [James Garbarino], a professor of human development at Cornell University. (Educating Kids)

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