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Show Janes Buttertiead SOuth, or call 264-2267. Sunday, January 16, 2000 g The Salt Lake Tribune FAMILY &PETS ‘Erik Perel/The Charlotte Obset¥@' Carol Pfahi takes son Braden,5, and dad, David, takes son Ellis, 3, to bed after some wrestling. “:\'*’ Couture Goes to the Dogs With Fifi & Romeo Partial to Parents? Workers With No Kids BY ELIZABETH SNEAD a Ullman, Lara Flynn Boyle, Calista Flockhart, Oprah Winfrey and eer Goldie HawnState bought F&R’s LOS ANGELES — Hollywood really has gone to the dogs. Man's best bud became inin the late "90s, with dogs regularly treated to day care, massage, therapy, per- le ided and embroi- dered doggie duds. Sarah Michelle Gellar recently ,Picked out @ sweaterfor her!Maltese, Thor. FF Browns in London and American Rag in Tokyo. Web-savvy dog lov- ers can out www.fifiandromeo.com. For a dog dressed to the Knines, F&R makes a perfect pooch carrier that looks like a handbag in turquoise,pink,floral, plaid or leopard print ($500). fume, coats, sweaters, boots, healthy snacks and herbal pup of TV and film costume deee oe ote With awards-show seasonjust weeks away, there is a chance Le Bernt on Tinsel Town’sdog lovers to be firstin line age hag trendy (and very pricey) line of canine oer called Fifi & ing stylish clothes to keep their posscegets por aees warm. Whenfrien ie aegarments, theideafora pridedplhconderdayagen carpets. ‘ ‘ 4,ias raenek Romeo. Anyone rich and famous can buy aBurberry dogcoatoraGucci leather collar. F&R caters to more dis¢erning customers with one-ofa-Kind dog sweaters made from vi cashmere ($200-$250). Coats and raincoats ($250-$350), petfect for a winter romp in a Beverly Hills dog park, come in wool, velvet, rayon and cotton/ lirien, trimmed in faux (naturally) Whois dressing dogs upscale? Jopn Rivers, Bette Midler, Rose MeGowan,Portia de Rossi, Tracey 1e was born. Turnsoutthey werebarkingup the righttree. ae C@#Pet eehres. oe a id Gl nes hich will be It took a while to get the patterns proportioned properly (S,M, _L), but within weeks their upscale eat ta a tat aud te SiVen out Jan. 23. wol Very cute. shelves. tenbotysad waiting limos dur- was jumping off Barneys’ But the posh pooches mustcool “As smaill-dog owners, we know how hardit is to find clothes that . "i LoCascio explains: “The pets fit little dogs,” Francis says. “But we never expected to take off like could not be allowed inside to watch the show because it’s held this.” The decadent dog sweaters and coats now are also sold by Fred Segal, the Neiman Marcuscatalog, in the Beverly Hilton restaurant, and the health laws would prohibit that.” Grrrr. BY MARYELIZABETH DeANGELIS KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSSERVICE CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Candy Lake doesn’t wantkids. She wouldlike peopleto respect that, but sometimes feels like an oddity in a world that puts a pre- Plan supporters say it would give parents whodon’t have paid maternity or paternity leave a “T think lotof people feel like this, but don’t think they have a stages in a baby’slife. Critics include business leaders who sayit would put them into a crunch and voice because they feel outnumbered,”she said. Nurse Carol Pfahl has a husband, two small kids and a career ei Open: Sat/Sun sun fo move in fombler 657 wag 03k:OW) ‘Open: Sun 11-2 aw) Open: Sat |-4 tage fariy mwitepace, wt bedbah ond, ihert. mow in} Very open. Nce deep Excelent row, Duy tr sarorsrvesment D1 Updaied “one Hut66.2068 Ere Fast uppon. Gest Buy. sp ¥ Cute ‘SoceyAmberAbbott home near 16.900 WESTJORDAN $165,000 COTTONWOOD "e300 2HBE Cotaina 71903) °2/?8adlone1320) met AVENUES $329,900 a NE"UP Oper SONS23 Ned anhored treatment” parents get. Today’s parents are raising tomorrow’s panyin Charleston. bothers her when people without kids complain about the “special doctors, nurses and world leaders, helping parents spend more timewith their babies would build stronger families; Lake says it would be unfair to people who don’t have kids. Unless you work in Utopia, you have probably heard some form of this Proce! Usuy. PUD, top cna other workers whosayit’s unfair she doesn’t want to give up. It says SOUTH JORDAN sam chance to bond during crucial to people withoutkids. “Having children is a choice; why should my company or my governmentsupport that choice?” leaveafter the birth of a child. eee ners and other outside-the-office concerns. The Clinton proposal has pushed work-family arguments to “reproductive discrimination” in insurance costs, taxes and office workloadissues. she says. “Tt’s not that parents should Satz ‘cosaSats tA bots hb &wih sep shower. 3gen Car goroge companies expanded benefits to address aging parents, sick part- anew and controversial level. cent proposal to use state unemploymentmoney to guarantee new parents up to 12 weeks of paid OW child care left some chiidless workers feeling so slighted, many mium on parenthood. Lake, a legal assistant at a Charlotte law firm, sees haveall the rights, just that kids should,” Pfahl said. The two, like many other Americans, have vastly different takes on President Clinton’s re- $211,000 debate among your col- leagues, neighbors orfriends. Duringthe past decade, familyfriendly policies that centered on Goer SO | Docu bn w/eparse berthed entonce RV pod,jetted: Nb asks Andrew Hansen, a 37-yearold marketing manager for an Intertiet-banking software comHansen, who is married and has opted not to have children, says he sees “moderately” growing anger among childless workers. He points to the Internet, where dozens of Websites invite the “child-free” to mingle, share ideas or vent about how children seem to have taken overthe world. In a 1997 national study by the Families and Work Institute, 40 percent of people polled said they would feel resentful if their com- panies offered benefits that don’t help them. Manybigger companies have addressed the “backlash” of workers without kids by expanding their definition of f emergencies and by giving workers more flexibility in schedules and paid timeoff. 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When his family moved..fo,, Kannapolis, N.C., from New Jer. : sey eight years ago, they deci to live on one incomeso his wife, Debbie, could stay home with| their son Sean. seria Long, a consultant on chutch.. aus es said they took4: financi it, something some - families aren't willing to do others can’tafford. “There are children out thét.,, thatare hurting,that are growing. up without quality time of thei parents,” Long said. “We havé-a,-” whole generation of kids raisitig’ themselves or being raised wit A = the help of paid babysitters. Tr “Society as a whole has to real," ize that children need ae Sure, adults that don’t have igs will be paying for somebodyelse's ; kids, but you have to look attHe’, big picture.” F . The U.S. Labor Department if timates nearly 2 million working. women have children less than a |! year old. it The 1993 Family and Medical | Leave act guarantees that new | parents can take up to 12 weeksof| unpaid time off during that first|| year. ser Manycompanies havepolicies suchas short-term disability that ' allow parents to get paid fof at { least a few weeks aftera birth, Fhe || higher your income, the bigger '1 your companyandthe more time 1 you've beenthere,the more likely 1 1 you.are to get such benefits. ' Notso fortunate is Karri Ann 1 ibcock, a 25-year-old \ convenience-store cashier who couldn't afford unpaid maternity ' leave. She went back to work le ' itentai weeks after her baby’s | Brittany is her fourth child 1| She needs the §7 an hour ant '\ health insurance herjob provides. ' She said she also needed méte 11 ie to recover from having''a | y- q “T've been working my wiitié adultlife. I've raised three kids BY myself with no child support tit nowelfare,”she said. She and her boyfriend pay taxes,so “I feel like I should get something back irre turn whenI need it.” |
