How To Navigate Identity
Our Newsletter Editor, Adele Kirkland, has a guest post over Happity. She shares why she believes the narrative around ‘stay-at-home’ mums needs to change and explains the challenges she’s faced navigating her own role and self-identity as a mother – and why parenting is so transformative.
“In her novel ‘Madwoman’, Chelsea Bieker opens by saying, ‘The world is not made for mothers, yet mothers made the world. The world is not made for children, yet children are the future.’ It’s a sentiment with which many of us can probably relate, regardless of our current family dynamics or paid work situation. We have a long way to go culturally in accepting children in their natural, often messy, loud and energetic state! ”
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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