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For many fathers and sons, that personal relationship also blends into their careers. About 80 percent of businesses in the United States are family owned, according to the Center for the Study for Taxation in Washington.
Mixing the parent-child dynamic with a business partnership can be as rewarding as it is challenging. A trust not often [...]

Nick Martinson’s boyhood dream was to be a race car driver.
But after serving in the Marine Corps and experiencing other places, he returned to his family’s Suttons Bay funeral home to represent the business’ fourth generation.
The decision pleased his father, Bob Martinson, who, like Nick, followed his father into the profession.
“There’s a vast difference between [...]

The path to riches usually starts with a family business. To use private-banker jargon, the Patriarch founds the company (they never say Matriarch) and then passes it to the Next Generation and then maybe to “Gen 3.” Inevitably, the family members start fighting and the business goes under or is sold for a Liquidity Event. [...]

As a 10-year-old boy, Matt Horsfield understood much of what was unfolding around him when his father, Pat, decided to start a construction business.
Now, as an adult and president of his father’s firm, Horsfield Companies, Matt Horsfield said he realizes how substantial his father’s undertaking was.
“Essentially, he gave up everything and sacrificed everything,” he said.
All [...]

Jason Jungwirth recently helped lift 50 cases of beer from a delivery truck at the family’s liquor store in Oshkosh.
It was all in a day’s work for the 38-year-old Jungwith, who is the third generation of Jungwirths to operate the family owned business — Jordy’s Beverage Mart — at the corner of West Ninth Avenue [...]

Only a third of family-owned businesses make it to the second generation. Some local entrepreneurs have taken steps to make sure their families — and their businesses — survive and thrive.
When Christopher Schneeman graduated from college, he was determined not to follow his father and grandfather into the family business of selling property and casualty [...]

Open communication and the ability to separate the different expectations of home and work are the keys to a successful father-child business relationship, experts say.
There are few neutral opinions when it comes to the father-child dynamic in family-owned businesses, said Wayne Rivers, the president of the Family Business Institute in Raleigh.
“That’s why the lows can [...]

Friday, June 13 is the third-annual Today I’m Working for Physician Recruitment Day. Organized by the Southern Georgian Bay Physician Recruitment Task Group, the campaign is designed to raise awareness of the need for family physicians in the Southern Georgian Bay area and raise funds that will be used in the recruitment of family physicians.
“The [...]

Continuing to look at some of the more historical houses in the Town of Newcastle, one is that of Dr. Ferdinand Loreck Pedolin, who was born in Fredericton in 1849 and whose parents had immigrated from Holland. He received his early education in Fredericton and eventually attended Harvard Medical School, where he graduated with a [...]

An average family doctor is seeing up to two female patients a week who have suffered domestic violence.
But a conference of GPs has been told a woman may endure 35 violent attacks before telling the gardai.
The revelations emerged as the first guide for family doctors on how to deal with patients suffering domestic violence was [...]