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The article discusses how job stress can impact marriages, particularly when couples complain or criticize one another or offer unwanted advice about their jobs. It presents comments from Northfield, Ohio, couple Patrick Flaherty and Annie Flaherty, Santa Ana, California, couple Doug Murray and Kathy Murray, and clinical psychologist Patricia Pitta.

The article provides an answer to a question related to valuing work while simultaneously building family relationships.

The article presents questions and answers about work and family, including an advice on how to find a sports psychologist and an inquiry into valuing friendships based on sex differences.

The article reports on the pressure at work faced by an estimated 1.9 million college-educated mothers in the U.S. to prove themselves all over again.

The article presents excerpts from work and family blogs including the top 20 companies in terms of providing perks to their employees, and ways for parents and their children to enjoy snowstorm.

The article presents questions and answers related to family and work, including one on whether parents should force their elementary-school child to do homework if she does not want to and another about work-at-home opportunities in the U.S.

Excerpts from the Work and Family Blog at WSJ.com about the association of sleep habits with performance in school and about birth order marriages are presented.

The article presents questions and answers related to work and family including a source of information on the Gallup-Healthways survey and an inquiry on providers of high-quality child care in California.

An excerpt from the Work & Family Blog on WSJ.com is presented.

Excerpts from the work and family blog of WSJ.com are presented.

The article discusses the emergence of working women who are as ambitious as their male counterparts based on a study of employee attitudes in the U.S. The study found that about two-thirds of men and women less than 29 years old desire more responsibility on the job. One of the factors contributing to the motivation of young women for desiring more responsibility on the job is said to be a larger breadwinning role at home. Other findings include higher work-family conflicts reported by men and the reduction of prejudice against working mothers.

Excerpts from the work and family blog at WSJ.com of "The Wall Street Journal" are presented.

Excerpts from the work and family blog of WSJ.com are presented.

Excerpts from the Juggle blog of "The Wall Street Journal" which covers work and family issues are presented, including the advantages and disadvantages of grandparents' care to children, socializing with colleagues and the news on the contamination of U.S.-made infant formula with melamine.

The article presents questions and answers related to family and work life including where and how to find qualified marital therapists, suggested colleges that match students with learning differences and advice on elder-care emergencies.

The article presents excerpts from the work and family blog of WSJ.com.

The article focuses on a debate over whether it is better for the children of an employee who has been asked to relocate to relocate or participate in extreme commuting, which entails traveling to and staying in the relocation city for days and then returning for a short period of time. A discussion of the psychological impact both employment options have on children of different ages is presented.

The article focuses on the author's predictions for changes in the work environment for women which will be seen in the U.S. in 2008. Arguments are offered which suggest that there will be an increase in the number of part time jobs for skilled workers, that volunteer volunteer work will help stay at home mothers learn job skills that they can use in future employment, and that mothers will announce their pregnancies earlier at work.

The article presents questions and answers related to work and family, including recommended parenting books, learning disability in the workplace and wage for an over-night sitter.

The article reports on innovations which have been developed to help consumers manage work and family. A discussion of several innovations including a couples program from John Gottman which cuts postpartum depression rates in women by two thirds, a website founded by Stacey Boyd that lists preschools and consumer reviews of them, companies including Met Life that are allowing employees to work around their childrens' school calendars is presented.

The article presents the results of a study of 975 global managers that was done by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce. The study, which was reported in the December 2006 "Harvard Business Review," found that 45% of high earning managers enter a conversational dead zone after their work day and are too tired to talk to their partner or spouse.

The article presents questions and answers related to work and family, including one on school bullying.

The article presents questions and answers related to work and family, including workplace rights of parents caring for children with disabilities.

The article offers advice for families facing a short-term corporate transfer of one parent. Short-term assignments are becoming more prevalent in the United States, according to surveys of relocation trends. A survey by GMAC Global Relocation Services, the National Foreign Trade Council and the Society for Human Resource Management showed that 28 percent of international transferees went overseas for less than a year in 2004. Short-term transfers reduce costs for employers and allow employees to avoid the relocation of their families. Families face many other challenges, though, as the spouse that is left fills in for the spouse that is transferred. Family problems are the most common cause of transferees' returning home early or quitting.

Answers several questions regarding work and family relations.

Discusses how pregnant chief executive officers attempt to balance career and family. Profile of Karen Bressler, CEO of AGAR Supply, who uses her experiences with busy family life to lead the company; How pregnant CEO's benefit from the fact that they create their own schedules; Consideration of how several CEOs coped with pregnancy.

Presents suggestions on how parents can explain to children the reasons for going to work. View that parents play a dominant role in shaping children's attitudes about work; Surveys which suggest that children tend to think their parents are less enthusiastic about their jobs than they actually are; Reaction of children to the emotional state of parents when leaving for work. INSET: Shop Talk for Kids.

Revisits five families who are struggling to balance work and family issues. Discussion of the stresses felt by families resulting from dual-earners; Indication that dual-earners are declining as a percentage of overall families with children under 18 and an increase in at-home dads and at-home moms, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics; Details of the methods used by the five families since they were first profiled by the author in the mid 1990s; Rick and Barbara Mauntel of Phoenix (Ariz.); John Morrissey and Chris Young of Illinois; Lisa Yee and Scott Feldmann of Florida; Beth and John Long of Orland Park (Ill.); Mike and Stephanie Bursek of Bellevue (Wash.).

Focuses on the stress suffered by individuals working in customer support and the impact of those stresses on the workers' family life. Comments from Donna Earl, owner of a San Francisco (Calif.)-based customer-service consulting and training company, regarding the level of anger some customers; Results of studies, indicating good customer-service increases profits; Number of workers studied at a German department store, who were deemed irritable, impatient and emotionally unavailable to their families after work, according to the Families and Work Institute; Efforts of customer-service personnel to cope with abusive customers; Comments from some customer-service workers regarding their anger at home after work.

Responds to males readers who sent letters to the author, claiming they, as fathers, change roles as often as mothers do. Excerpt from the author's previous column, claiming that fathers never attend their children's sporting events; Excerpts from the letters of fathers who are attempting to juggle work and family commitments; How fathers are making their role-swapping easier by their selection of clothing to wear on any given day; Comparison of the author's concepts of Undercover Mom and Undercover Dad, suggesting fathers have an easier time at swapping roles; Corporate cultural attitudes regarding schedule-flexibility of fathers and mothers.

Focuses on working mothers and the various roles they are required to assume through the day. Efforts of some mothers to shift from the role of employee to mother in an effort to conceal the fact that they work from other mothers; Why mothers attempt to conceal their employment; Comments from Karen Ferguson, executive vice-president at Resources Connection in Parsnippany (N.J.), regarding why she conceals her work from at-home mothers; Percentage of the U.S. work force that work at least sometimes from non-office locations, according to a survey conducted by the American Business Collaborative, indicating the opportunity for working mothers to change roles. INSET: Dressing for Success.

Focuses on workaholics and the passing of that trait onto children of workaholics. Conventional wisdom about the impact of parents' habits or addictions on the family; Discussion of overwork as an addiction or merely a habit; How differing values on work resulted in the divorce of Alida Cornelius and Krish Krishan; Comments from children of workaholics, who were negatively impacted by the workaholic parent; Overcoming the workaholic habit. INSET: Like Father, Like Son.

Assesses the role of the workplace on an employee's marriage. Number of individuals and companies taking part in a seven-year Swedish study, indicating that working with people of the opposite sex is detrimental to a person's marriage; Percentage increase in divorce among individuals working with the opposite sex relative those individuals working in same-sex offices; Statistics related to the likelihood of divorce for a married person if one-third of co-workers are recently divorced; Other results of the study of interest to marriage researchers.

Focuses on the families with the father as the only person working and earning money while the mother stays home to raise the children. Comments from Bo Rogers, who had to sell his motorcycle and give up his gym membership, so that his wife could stay home with the children; Percentage increase in families with children under six-years-old and with the father working and mother staying at home from 2001 to 2003, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; Cost savings and benefits of having a stay-at-home mother; Percentage of household income earned by working women, suggesting a large drop in household income by not having the mother work; Psychological burdens of being the sole breadwinner in a family.

Discusses prenuptial agreements as they relate to a volatile economic climate. Example of a California couple who did not foresee the husband's job layoff and the resulting turmoil caused in their lives; Elements to be considered in an 'economic prenup'; Comments from Seth Eisenberg, a former executive at a marriage-education program; Suggested areas to be considered in an economic prenup, including surviving job loss, limiting work hours, managing transfers, prioritizing careers and balancing work and family.

Presents predictions about 2003 work-life trends and examines those made since 1999. Impact of the United States economy on family income roles; Necessity of health insurance; Role of family caregivers; Efforts of people to balance family and work roles; Mistakes and correct guesses made in past predictions.

Reports on married couples who work in the home. How to be successful when working from home; Effect on marriages; Anecdotes. INSET: Making Marriages Work.

Reports on mothers who have taken jobs after leaving work to care for children. Maureen Ehlbeck, who works part time because her husband was laid off; Other women and how they reconcile work and family.

Discusses methods of dealing with a poor relationship between one's spouse and one's boss. Anecdotes of feuds between spouses and bosses; How a spouse's perception of a co-worker can be informative; How to avoid conflicts between one's managers and one's family. INSET: When Your Spouse and Your Boss Don't Get Along.

Provides information on Internet Web sites that can be useful to workers who also must care for infirm elders. Details on a site maintained by the National Alliance for Caregiving of Bethesda, Maryland; The Family Caregiver Alliance's site; Others.

Reports on the challenges which face parents of disabled children when balancing their work and home life. Christa Pardee, who has changed her career multiple times due to her child's disabilities; Linda Roundtree, who passed up a management position with American Airlines when her son was born with Down's syndrome; How some companies accommodate parents' needs for flexiblity for dealing with disabled children.