Make Mothers Matter
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Anne Fennell talked to Make Mothers Matter, an international organisation of which we are a part. They advocate for the recognition and support of mothers as changemakers.
“We are afraid to talk about mothers these days,” Anne told them. “It has become like it is old-fashioned and stuck in the past whereas we want to be progressive.
“But I think it’s quite radical to say that we are mothers and we want to have the choice to be at home with our children.
“There is no other organisation doing that. There are a lot of organisations for fathers, quite a few here in the UK, and many others supporting mums to go back to work, but there is none, that I know of, that supports the desire to be at home. It is like swimming upstream and I think there’s the need to be a voice.
“The greatest challenge is to change perceptions and to educate and to get people to understand what the situation is for families. Our main goal at MAHM today is to advocate for a fair taxation policy, to make child benefit fair and to advocate for an economic level playing field so parents have a real choice. And actually, for the money to follow the child.”
“We’re convinced that mothers are the transformative agents of society.”
MAHM campaigns for:
Childcare subsidy to follow the child with parents allowed to chose whether they use it to stay at home, give it to grandparents, childminder or external setting.
Taxation should fall fairly on those who stay at home and those who work.
Public examination on short and long term needs of children (and the effect on infants of long hours in external settings).
Recognition of value of unpaid care (estimated at £77 billion by Carers UK).
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