When the nonprofit organisation, Family and Home Network (FAHN), realised that Wikipedia's Stay-at-Home Mother page redirects to ‘Housewife’, they launched a writing project to set the record straight. They cite the work of our sister-organisation, FEFFAF in their article.

Anne Fennell has just returned from a trip to New York for the UN 68th Commission on the Status of Women. It was her first trip to the UN as President of the European Federation of Parents and Carers at Home whilst also representing MAHM.

After 14 years of campaigning, we were pleased to hear the Chancellor state publicly that the Child Benefit Tax Charge was unfair to families particularly where one parent stays at home to care. 

The fact that the principle of household taxation was publicly acknowledged means there is a public recognition that the principle can be changed to make life fairer for families. 

This is our last chance before the Spring budget to put pressure on the Chancellor to make Child Benefit fairer. Please write to your MP now to add your voice to the increasing pressure on the Chancellor to rectify this unjust tax charge.

We are delighted to announce that our research director Dr Maria Lyons has had her report published by independent think tank Civitas. Maria has reviewed 40 academic studies on universal childcare and finds a worrying lack of evidence on its supposed benefits. Universal childcare is frequently claimed to give every child the ‘best start in life’ but is this really the case?

Anne Fennell talks to the Make Mothers Matter Network Coordinator Sarah Krimi. Mothers At Home Matter are grass roots members of the international MMM.

We need your stories! Struggling families who have a parent at home caring for their children also need help. A fairer tax system which recognises the household income rather than individual income with tax breaks would go a long way to supporting such families. This affects so many hard working families — please help us share your story.

Mothers At Home Matter responds to the Prime Minister’s LinkedIn post today. When the time is right, it would be good to support mothers back into work with returner schemes and acknowledgement that they have gained important skills whilst childrearing. This is not necessarily at nine months when an infant still needs its mother or primary carer.

Had enough of being called ‘economically inactive’? It is time to find our voice and speak up for the value of care. Raising children and taking care of our elderly are not 'barriers to work’ or ‘burdens'. It is the most important work and the duty of every good society to take care of its most vulnerable members.

Is more childcare going to be good for babies and toddlers? Putting to one side for the moment the important questions of whether the new expansion of childcare will help mothers back to work (something that is debatable) and whether the majority of mothers would prefer childcare to caring for their babies themselves (also worth a debate), this important question is not being discussed in the public response.

The Chancellor has listened to the cry of childcare but is he prepared for the cry of separation? Mr Hunt has put another nail in the coffin for mothers wanting to make the choice to stay home to care. This attack on our freedom is justified in the name of productivity. ‘Getting mothers into paid work will boost the economy and growth’. But it is based on the insulting myth that mothers nurturing babies and toddlers are doing nothing at home; they are ‘inactive economic units’.

Mothers At Home Matter submitted written evidence to the Education Committee's inquiry, Support for childcare and the early years. It has been accepted by the committee and published on their website. You can read it here.

We greatly appreciate Frank Young’s article in The Spectator this week. What do you think? Does Britain have an anti-family taxation system?

Mothers At Home Matter’s response to the highly publicised March of the Mummies has been published in the Daily Mail today. Let’s recognise Choice and March for all Mummies.

Mothers At Home Matter’s response to the highly publicised March of the Mummies. Let’s recognise Choice and March for all Mummies.

Mothers At Home Matter was asked by the Telegraph to comment on the proposals put forward by Civitas on reforming childcare. Conversations around childcare must positively include and recognise those mothers who choose, or would prefer the choice to, carry out this valuable work themselves. For ten years the Department for Education has been sitting on evidence that two-thirds of mothers would rather work a lot less and spend more time being a mum, but policy announcements and government cash all go in the opposite direction. We need to listen to mothers.

Mothers at Home Matter welcome the news that Liz Truss and her education minister, Kit Malthouse, are exploring widening the options for childcare, freeing parents to spend on childcare as they see fit. We remind Liz Truss of her pledge to remove the penalties for parents staying at home to care for their children and implore her and Kit Malthouse that this cash should also be accessible for parents caring at home.

Our response to the article in The Telegraph on 11th July 2022 ‘Broken Britain in Childcare Crisis’. Anne Fennell argues that it only demonstrated half of the story about care for our children.

The Sunday Times printed an article on 5th June 2022 stating that some women were struggling to afford to go back to work after having children. It used the term ‘economically inactive.’ This is Anne Fennell’s letter to the editor in response.

Our press release in response to the dialogue surrounding The Sunday Times’ article on 5th June 2022 which stated that some women were struggling to afford to go back to work after having children.