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Book - Three-Ring Circus: How Real Couples Balance Marriage,Work, and Family
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 2004 For more information, please contact: Krista Rafanello Publicist 510.595.3664 ext. 334 Thirty moms and dads weigh in on making it all work ‹and knowing when to let go in the name of sanity‹in the newly released Three-Ring Circus: How Real Couples Balance Marriage, Work, and Family Info, Discussions and Ordering: http://welchwrite.com/trc/ Today¹s parents are supposed to enjoy the ³freedom² to have it all‹high-powered careers, passionate partnerships, and brilliant well-mannered children. That is the spin, at least, from those who have never tried to balance the needs of bosses, spouses and those demanding little people‹their children. Three-Ring Circus confronts the reality of being working parents by addressing real working couples of different ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds trying to make it all work. ³Only about one out of four families fits the traditional model of husband as wage-earner and wife as homemaker.²* In a time where ³traditional² roles of mom and dad are becoming obsolete‹women are pursuing careers, men are becoming stay-at-home fathers, and parents are trading night and day shifts‹Three-Ring Circus represents the voice of modern parenting. From juggling breast-feeding and work schedules to dealing with unexpected sick days and dissimilar approaches to parenting to scheduling sex in Palm Pilots or planners, Three-Ring Circus offers up a variety of real situations and honest stories. A sometimes poignant and often funny collection of 30 first-person essays written by both men and women, with a foreword by renowned child psychiatrist, Dr. James Comer, Three-Ring Circus is a book by parents, for parents, about parenting. Revealing all of the trials and tribulations as well as joys of being working parents, Three-Ring Circus provides genuine solutions to those looking for a realistic balance of work and family. It is a comforting voice that provides guidance to couples struggling to keep it all together, including their marriage, and it is a trustworthy companion for those who just need a good laugh to get them through another day. "What wonderful stories and what a wonderful book! Children need the self-images that the parents in Three-Ring Circus have provided, a book in which both parents tell their tales of the adjustments necessary to handle the multi-tasking of their children's future, their marriage, and their jobs."--T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. About the Editors: Dawn Comer Jefferson spent two seasons as a writer on the hit CBS drama, Judging Amy and was nominated for an Emmy Award for co-writing the animated family film, Our Friend, Martin. She lives with her husband and their two girls in Studio City, California. Rosanne Welch is the author of The Encyclopedia of Women in Aviation and Space and a full time television writer/producer. She lives with her husband and with their son in Van Nuys, California. THREE-RING CIRCUS: How Real Couples Balance Marriage, Work, and Family Edited by Dawn Comer Jefferson and Rosanne Welch Seal Press May 2004 $14.95 / 288 pages ISBN 1-58005-102-2 About Seal Press Since its beginning as a small press in Seattle, Seal Press has had a long, distinguished reputation for publishing books of incredible variety and depth by women, for women. In 2001, Seal became an imprint of Avalon Publishing Group, whose offices are located in New York and California. While the Seal staff relishes their independent, Northwest roots, they publish not only local authors¹ work but also fiction and nonfiction from women across the globe. |
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