Read more about this interview here: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/05/wikipedias-first-ever-definition-of-stay-at-home-mother-presents-economic-cultural-reality-of-caregiving/
Last year, Family and Home Network (FAHN) discovered the Wikipedia page for “Stay-at-Home mother” redirected readers to the pejorative term “Housewife.” Supported by forty years of advocacy for parents who wish to stay home with their babies and children, FAHN crafted the first ever Wikipedia entry for Stay-at-Home mother. The heavily cited entry exposes the culturally-engineered myth that pits working mothers and stay-at-home mothers against each other by sharing the economic reality that most women, 57%, do not have a choice to work or stay home but instead float between home and work out of necessity. Furthermore, labor statistics on Stay-at-Home Mothers are collected in such a way the dynamic and large population of SAHMs have been represented as small and ineffective, when the opposite is true. The Stay-at-Home Mother entry launched on Wikipedia on May 7, 2024.
Find out more about how we were never meant to raise children alone, in isolation, and without robust community support in this science-based post by Darcia Narvaez, PhD
“Stay-at-home mothers are often ignored or stereotyped in cultural and political conversations. Although stay-at-home parents do essential work, they’re not considered part of the workforce and their work is not counted in the GDP,” says Willow Duttge Tepper, member of the FAHN Board of Directors and lead of the project.
“Though homemaking skills should never be denigrated, at-home mothers must not be misidentified as housewives,” says Catherine Myers, Executive Director of FAHN. “Most at-home mothers are focused on their children’s needs and on their own desire to spend time together with their children. Family and Home Network is happy to set the record straight.”
FAHN has four decades of experience listening to and speaking up to dispel misconceptions about at-home mothers, and the team brought that knowledge to the Wikipedia entry. It’s important because all families must be included in family policy, and many families with an at-home parent are economically vulnerable.
Unfortunately most U.S. family policy is crafted through the lens of “working families,” leaving out at-home mothers and at-home fathers, who are forgoing paid employment in order to care for their children by choice or by circumstance. FAHN found that stay-at-home fathers have their own Wikipedia page, and now stay-at-home mothers have one too.
“Care has value, whether it’s done by child care providers or by parents themselves,” says Myers. “At-home mothers, at-home fathers, and other unpaid caregivers must be recognized and their care counted and supported with equitable, inclusive family policies.”
Because Wikipedia is a publicly accessed site, the new entry has already seen changes, including elimination of some of the paragraphs that expand on the misrepresented labor statistics around SAHMs. Kindred has posted FAHN’s original definition of the term, complete with citations, in our New Story Glossary here.
Kindred is also proud to have Darcia Narvaez’s award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality, listed as the first citation on the SAHM Wiki page. You can learn more about this book, and read its introduction and first chapter, in its 10th anniversary celebration interview with Darcia here. You can learn more about centering the needs of children as a path to cultural transformation in our Evolved Nest Initiative posts on Kindred and on the Evolved Nest’s website. Kindred Magazine is a sister initiative of the Evolved Nest Initiative through the award-winning nonprofit, Kindred World.
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Read more about this interview here: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/05/wikipedias-first-ever-definition-of-stay-at-home-mother-presents-economic-cultural-reality-of-caregiving/
Last year, Family and Home Network (FAHN) discovered the Wikipedia page for “Stay-at-Home mother” redirected readers to the pejorative term “Housewife.” Supported by forty years of advocacy for parents who wish to stay home with their babies and children, FAHN crafted the first ever Wikipedia entry for Stay-at-Home mother. The heavily cited entry exposes the culturally-engineered myth that pits working mothers and stay-at-home mothers against each other by sharing the economic reality that most women, 57%, do not have a choice to work or stay home but instead float between home and work out of necessity. Furthermore, labor statistics on Stay-at-Home Mothers are collected in such a way the dynamic and large population of SAHMs have been represented as small and ineffective, when the opposite is true. The Stay-at-Home Mother entry launched on Wikipedia on May 7, 2024.
Find out more about how we were never meant to raise children alone, in isolation, and without robust community support in this science-based post by Darcia Narvaez, PhD
“Stay-at-home mothers are often ignored or stereotyped in cultural and political conversations. Although stay-at-home parents do essential work, they’re not considered part of the workforce and their work is not counted in the GDP,” says Willow Duttge Tepper, member of the FAHN Board of Directors and lead of the project.
“Though homemaking skills should never be denigrated, at-home mothers must not be misidentified as housewives,” says Catherine Myers, Executive Director of FAHN. “Most at-home mothers are focused on their children’s needs and on their own desire to spend time together with their children. Family and Home Network is happy to set the record straight.”
FAHN has four decades of experience listening to and speaking up to dispel misconceptions about at-home mothers, and the team brought that knowledge to the Wikipedia entry. It’s important because all families must be included in family policy, and many families with an at-home parent are economically vulnerable.
Unfortunately most U.S. family policy is crafted through the lens of “working families,” leaving out at-home mothers and at-home fathers, who are forgoing paid employment in order to care for their children by choice or by circumstance. FAHN found that stay-at-home fathers have their own Wikipedia page, and now stay-at-home mothers have one too.
“Care has value, whether it’s done by child care providers or by parents themselves,” says Myers. “At-home mothers, at-home fathers, and other unpaid caregivers must be recognized and their care counted and supported with equitable, inclusive family policies.”
Because Wikipedia is a publicly accessed site, the new entry has already seen changes, including elimination of some of the paragraphs that expand on the misrepresented labor statistics around SAHMs. Kindred has posted FAHN’s original definition of the term, complete with citations, in our New Story Glossary here.
Kindred is also proud to have Darcia Narvaez’s award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality, listed as the first citation on the SAHM Wiki page. You can learn more about this book, and read its introduction and first chapter, in its 10th anniversary celebration interview with Darcia here. You can learn more about centering the needs of children as a path to cultural transformation in our Evolved Nest Initiative posts on Kindred and on the Evolved Nest’s website. Kindred Magazine is a sister initiative of the Evolved Nest Initiative through the award-winning nonprofit, Kindred World.
The Great Physician Launches, A Poetry Reading with Stephanie Mines
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The Great Physician Launches, A Poetry Reading with Stephanie Mines
Join the Earth Day Celebration Launch for The Great Physician on April 22 at 3 p.m. ET. Read the press release and register for the event here: kindredmedia.org/2024/03/the-grea…aunch-announced/
Poetry Reading:
Who Are You? Timemark 15:30
American Waiting Room, Timemark 21:30
The Texture of Oppression, Timemark 34:40
Kindred World Publishing House is proud to announce the release of The Great Physician: Medicinal Poetry for the Anthropocene, the first major collection of poetry by the renowned neuroscientist, healer, and climate activist, Stephanie Mines, PhD. In The Great Physician, Dr. Mines unflinchingly and soulfully moves us beyond transgenerational trauma, war, oppression, planetary collapse, toward the truth of our birthright: our “Original Brilliance.”
Purchase your copy of The Great Physician from the publisher for a discounted price. These sales support the nonprofit work of Kindred Magazine and Kindred World.
The public is invited to join the live launch party on April 22, 2024 at 3 p.m. ET. The Great Physician will be launched on Earth Day 2024, with virtual poetry readings and a salon discussion with Stephanie Mines and Lisa Reagan, founder of Kindred World and publisher of Kindred World Publishing House. (Register for the live event here.)
In The Great Physician’s autobiographical poetry and prose, Dr. Mines shares how her personal and professional background shaped her insights into a fusion of trauma recovery and climate activism. In her global activism through her Climate Change & Consciousness nonprofit, Dr. Mines focuses on humanity’s forward moving direction where inner and outer climates meet. In that place of mystery is our connection with the natural world and the living systems waiting to communicate with us, to give us what data cannot record.
Poetry, Dr. Mines says, helps make possible “the spaciousness needed to match our inner experience to the outer catastrophe that is accelerating before our eyes. It helps us to understand.” These poems are inner experiences through which she, and indirectly the reader, find a way to understand planetary experience, personal and generational cause and effect, and hopefully, the courage and energy to change organically—from war, intolerance, fear, ennui.
“The invitation I received from Lisa Reagan of Kindred World to assemble a collection of my poems as a chronicle of these times stopped me in my tracks. It led me to an internal retrospective of my life in which I saw that I was born to be a poet as well as a healing artist” writes Dr. Mines in the introduction to The Great Physician. “My life has been marked by irrevocable losses. This is underscored by the crushing impact of the Anthropocene. The loss that is the most brutal, the most devastating, is the loss of our children’s future. I am speaking of the children of the world, born and unborn, as well as my own children and grandchildren.”
In more than a dozen books that reflect her three decades of research as a neuroscientist and embryologist, Mines has investigated shock and trauma as a survivor, a professional, a clinical researcher, and a healthcare provider. Her work has resulted in her nonprofit, The TARA Approach, which provides practical means for the systemic change she promotes as a Regenerative Health paradigm. Her training and healing modality is used by individuals internationally and by professional counselors and organizations such as addiction clinics, abuse centers, and refugee charities.
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Read more about this interview here: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/05/wikipedias-first-ever-definition-of-stay-at-home-mother-presents-economic-cultural-reality-of-caregiving/
Last year, Family and Home Network (FAHN) discovered the Wikipedia page for “Stay-at-Home mother” redirected readers to the pejorative term “Housewife.” Supported by forty years of advocacy for parents who wish to stay home with their babies and children, FAHN crafted the first ever Wikipedia entry for Stay-at-Home mother. The heavily cited entry exposes the culturally-engineered myth that pits working mothers and stay-at-home mothers against each other by sharing the economic reality that most women, 57%, do not have a choice to work or stay home but instead float between home and work out of necessity. Furthermore, labor statistics on Stay-at-Home Mothers are collected in such a way the dynamic and large population of SAHMs have been represented as small and ineffective, when the opposite is true. The Stay-at-Home Mother entry launched on Wikipedia on May 7, 2024.
Find out more about how we were never meant to raise children alone, in isolation, and without robust community support in this science-based post by Darcia Narvaez, PhD
“Stay-at-home mothers are often ignored or stereotyped in cultural and political conversations. Although stay-at-home parents do essential work, they’re not considered part of the workforce and their work is not counted in the GDP,” says Willow Duttge Tepper, member of the FAHN Board of Directors and lead of the project.
“Though homemaking skills should never be denigrated, at-home mothers must not be misidentified as housewives,” says Catherine Myers, Executive Director of FAHN. “Most at-home mothers are focused on their children’s needs and on their own desire to spend time together with their children. Family and Home Network is happy to set the record straight.”
FAHN has four decades of experience listening to and speaking up to dispel misconceptions about at-home mothers, and the team brought that knowledge to the Wikipedia entry. It’s important because all families must be included in family policy, and many families with an at-home parent are economically vulnerable.
Unfortunately most U.S. family policy is crafted through the lens of “working families,” leaving out at-home mothers and at-home fathers, who are forgoing paid employment in order to care for their children by choice or by circumstance. FAHN found that stay-at-home fathers have their own Wikipedia page, and now stay-at-home mothers have one too.
“Care has value, whether it’s done by child care providers or by parents themselves,” says Myers. “At-home mothers, at-home fathers, and other unpaid caregivers must be recognized and their care counted and supported with equitable, inclusive family policies.”
Because Wikipedia is a publicly accessed site, the new entry has already seen changes, including elimination of some of the paragraphs that expand on the misrepresented labor statistics around SAHMs. Kindred has posted FAHN’s original definition of the term, complete with citations, in our New Story Glossary here.
Kindred is also proud to have Darcia Narvaez’s award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality, listed as the first citation on the SAHM Wiki page. You can learn more about this book, and read its introduction and first chapter, in its 10th anniversary celebration interview with Darcia here. You can learn more about centering the needs of children as a path to cultural transformation in our Evolved Nest Initiative posts on Kindred and on the Evolved Nest’s website. Kindred Magazine is a sister initiative of the Evolved Nest Initiative through the award-winning nonprofit, Kindred World.
