Family and Home Network is a grassroots organization founded by three at-home mothers over twenty years ago. We offer mothers and fathers our award-winning publications and this website as communication tools. Through them, we exchange information, offer each other support and understanding, learn together about public policy and join forces to speak up for our families.

The demographics of our membership range widely, as do our political views and the way we share or divide the income-earning and caregiving work in our families. We hold in common a deep committment to spending generous amounts of time with our children from infancy through the teen years.

Over the past two decades, tens of thousands of volunteers have contributed their time and expertise to this organization -- writing articles and poems, sending letters and sharing information. Others have edited, studied public policy issues, represented the organization at national conferences or in interviews with the media, and worked diligently on the everyday business of running an organization. All have helped develop the organization's philosophy, which is summarized as follows:

• Solid relationships are critically important to children from infancy through the teen years.

• Time spent caring for one's children can be a richly rewarding experience for parents, full of opportunities for growth, deep satisfaction and joy.

• Parents benefit by communicating about their feelings, insights and questions with other parents. Parent-to-parent mentoring is an enormous help to individuals and strengthens communities.

• Parents who provide care for their own children rather than using paid child care must be treated with respect and justice by federal, state and local governments.

• Change is needed in societal understanding and attitudes as well as in government policies. When parents share expertise and information they are prepared to act as a powerful force in cultural and policy affairs.

• FAHN representatives have made a difference over the past 20 years and continue to do so by speaking up to the media and policy makers.

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Please become a member of Family and Home Network today – memberships start at just $15 per year.