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Press Release: Family and Home Network calls for family policies that help all families regardless of how they earn a living or care for their families.
The ways in which families meet their income-earning and caregiving responsibilities should not determine their eligibility for support and services.
Nurturing is powerful and drastically undervalued. Nurturing heals, promotes empathy, and counters violence.
Scientists know how vital relationships are to humans, with enormous power in infancy.
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Catherine Myers' responses to the 10/3/19 NYTimes article "Stay-at-Home Parents Work Hard. Should They Be Paid?" by Claire Cain Miller.
In April 1984, the founders of Mothers at Home testified at a Congressional Hearing about what they were hearing from mothers: the call for family policies that offered true choices – not just more child care, but also more economic and social support for mothers who wanted to care for their children themselves.
A look back over three decades.... with volunteer energy, expertise and dedication, Family and Home Network has accomplished much over the years. Part #1 of a series about our history.
After time away from the organization due to our families' needs, Catherine Myers and the Board of Directors are happy to be returning to more activity.