Special Wall Street Journal Report Working Parents Find They Can't Have It All NEW YORK, NY - The Wall Street Journal reports a growing backlash by working parents against overscheduled lives. In a special report, entitled, "Work and Family," the Journal finds that parents make heroic efforts to juggle jobs, kids and marriages but have found that juggling too often is an unfulfilling end in itself. The stress of balancing work and family is no longer a woman's issue -- it increasingly tugs at men, as they take on an equal share of parenting, says the Journal. While two-career couples rebel against over-loaded lives, another backlash is brewing among those without children who resent colleagues who take time off for kids' activities and are demanding compensatory time off for themselves. "Work and Family," a 20-page report devoted to coverage of working families in the 1990's, is being mailed this week to 350,000 selected Journal subscribers. "This demographic edition is a way to offer a targeted group of readers news and information we think they will find particularly compelling," says Paul E. Steiger, the Journal's managing editor. The Journal report, which includes 12 articles, probes several important trends: -- More men are dropping out and leaving successful jobs to spend more time with their families. The journal sees this as part of an overall gender shift occurring in many families with women pushing up the corporate ladder and through the glass ceiling while men pick up more of the responsibilities at home. -- Does the 50's model -- with the mom staying home full-time with the kids and dad working outside the home -- work in the '90's? The Journal finds a surprising answer. -- The real conflict between work and family is not so much about responsibility or scheduling as about passion and pleasure. In the struggle to juggle conflicting demands, parents have defined themselves by how much they do rather than what they love and value. Using a proprietary customer database that identifies Journal subscribers by various demographic characteristics, the 1.8 million circulation daily is developing a second demographic edition, focusing on retirement and pre-retirement planning, to be published in September.