Mothers at Home Matter

The work that is done by mothers in the home may be invisible, unpaid and all too easily downplayed by policymakers and the media, but that does not mean that what they do does not matter.

Remove these mothers from their homes and it  becomes obvious all too soon that not everything they do can be successfully cut down, delegated or avoided.

We campaign to raise their status because we believe that looking after young children at home is just as important a stage in the lifecycle as paid work.

We do this by drawing attention to the basic need for attachment of babies, by calling into question the fiscal system that disadvantages single-earner couples disproportionately and by objecting to the often negative portrayal of a mother at home.

None of this means that we advocate the return of the 1950's housewife. We just want to point out that there's time for everything but not for everything at once.