caregiver

This is not a normal adult relationship, because the author is a paid caregiver of an autistic adult.

A caregiver's failure to make a reasonable effort to protect a child from abuse, neglect, or exploitation by another person.

Do some women take low paying jobs because they are often the primary caregiver for children?

Personally I suspect that women being allowed to be the primary caregiver is actually a privilege they earn because their investment in having the children is so much higher.

I'm sorry to say, in my experience, alzheimer's can almost be harder on the caregiver than on the afflicted.

Now, if men who were the primary caregiver during marriage were generally losing custody in contested custody proceedings, that would be a different story.

Being a social, caregiver is what women are socialized to do.

Women who are the primary caregiver of a child.

In contested divorces, there may be a presumption operating that the person who acted as the primary caregiver is most suitable custodial parent, and traditional gender roles means that that will often be the mother.

> Do some women take low paying jobs because they are often the primary caregiver for children?

In households with children it is common for the woman to assume the role as the primary caregiver while the man assumes the role of the provider.

Until I see some proof that these men were incompetent/useless until they had a caregiver, I think this is complete bogus to justify a role that wasn't really needed.

Pt caregiver states that they have been in good health with no recent illness." is a sample 'short report' I might get en route.

Alternatively you could have a caregiver who acts like a family support system (checks in regularly, schedules appts, etc.) but that could be even more isolating - finding a peer group can be really hard even for more "well-adjusted" adults, and maybe a caregiver who treats you like family is actually really inappropriate if said caregiver has no intention of sticking around for the long-term.