By Gary T. Pakulski, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Oct. 1--MAUMEE bail bond agent Mary Frances Smith had a bad feeling about the drug suspect. But it was Christmas. And the man's mother wanted him home for the holidays. So Ms.

When he heard American soldiers had been charged in the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, Northern Kentucky University professor J. Robert Lilly had little reason to be surprised.

Mothers are spending at least as much time with their children today as they did 40 years ago, and the amount of child care and housework performed by fathers has sharply increased, researchers say.