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caretaking

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Recent Examples of caretaking Moreover, technologies that keep us continually connected have given rise to a relentless and transcendent type of caretaking. — Marianne Cooper, Time, 5 Aug. 2026 This preemptive caretaking also prevents people from growing out of egocentric thinking. — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 16 July 2026 But the new season, which benefits tremendously from having shaken off the source material, reframes such caretaking as a literal labor of love. — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 This kind of mutual caretaking, physical as well as emotional, prods larger conversations about the state of the world — particularly, Marie-Lou’s nursing home facing a perpetual funding crisis. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026 Low pay, heavy workloads, and lack of clear worker protections and advancement opportunities have been common across the industry, but the pandemic really accelerated things, as issues like cost of living and accommodations for disability and caretaking were exacerbated. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026 Our institutions now reward leaders who excel at emotional caretaking over those who can actually produce order. — Jonathan Alpert Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026 Matt Lovatt, director for the UK’s Trentham Monkey Forest, told the BBC that rejection by parents is rare among macaques, but that males of the species do as much caretaking as the females, so Punch still has a good chance of integrating into the troop and developing normally, even without his mom. — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 23 Feb. 2026 Discuss why caretaking is needed Elysia Ostrander, who is a family dog trainer with Pawsitive Families, is a mom of two kids–ages 4 and 6–and a dog mom to a senior Shorthaired Pointer lab mix and an 8-month-old Labradoodle. — Katie Grant, Parents, 10 Feb. 2026

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Rather, the act of caregiving is a biologically adaptive process.

— Nishant Pandya, STAT, 17 Aug. 2026
As the Baby Boomer generation ages, the financial burden of caregiving widens wealth disparities.

— Samir Shah, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026

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The big conversation that was had on social media about the series was the representation of the realities of parenting, particularly motherhood.

— Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2026
When motherhood is no longer defined as a duty, new possibilities for female selfhood emerge.

— Rafaela Bassili, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026

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