The national non-profit 501(c)(3) organization Family and Home Network offers support, information and advocacy to parents–and focuses on children's needs for generous amounts of time and consistent nurturing relationships. We are a grassroots, member-supported organization, now celebrating 25 years! Please become a member today and join in our ongoing work.

Highlights of our Work

• Offering a wealth of information on our website, including these recent additions:

  • Statistics on families: Reliable data; how to spot misuse of statistics

  • Parent-to-parent support & information- new online: Learning from a Difficult child

  • Science: Parenting and an infant's genes

  • Advocacy – Campaign for Inclusive Family Policies

• Speaking up to the media and policy makers about families in which parents forgo or cut back on paid employment in order to spend time with their children, about the misuse of statistics on mothers and work, and about the Campaign for Inclusive Family Policies–calling for public policies that respect and support parents regardless of how they meet their income-earning and caregiving responsibilities. Please see more about our advocacy work here.

• For 21 years (1984-2004) published the monthly, 32-page journal Welcome Home – winner of several Parents' Choice Awards for Excellence in Parenting Publications. We now offer "Best of" collections from Welcome Home, as well as back issues, along with the many Welcome Home articles posted on our website.

• Publisher of books for parents: dispelling myths about at-home parents, addressing common issues for new mothers, sharing parents' feelings through poetry and art, and celebrating humor in family life.

Current Leadership

Dedicated volunteers and staff have contributed tens of thousands of hours to Family and Home Network over the years. Meet our current volunteer Board of Directors and Executive Director.

Please consider volunteering your time and expertise.

Goals for 2010 and Beyond

• Launch Family and Home Network's new website (target date: January 2010). It is being built with open source tools (Drupal and CiviCRM) and volunteer labor. A professional graphic artist is donating her services to design a new logo and color palette. The new website tools will enable FAHN's volunteers create and manage website content. FAHN members will have great opportunities to comment, participate in creating content and connect with powerful social networking features.

• Build the capacity of Family and Home Network by increasing membership and engaging more volunteers in the organization's work.

• Educate policymakers about inclusive family policies, sending information to each member of Congress, to Governors of each of the states and to policy analysts at think tanks.

• Continue to build support for FAHN's Campaign for Inclusive Family Policies among leaders of other national parenting organizations, as well as among the general public through articles, editorials and web postings.

• Publish workshop guides for local community use in small group settings, to encourage parents and affirm the critical importance of nurturing time.

Please help Family and Home Network build on 25 years of work -- become a member (or renew your membership) today! Make a generous membership contribution now!

Other ways you can help:

• Stay in touch: sign up for FAHN's E-News (please add FAHN to your email address book – exdir@familyandhome.org).



• Tell others about Family and Home Network: your friends and family, moms' group, dads' group, community association, etc.

• Join FAHN's Facebook page!

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• Volunteer your time and expertise – for more information, click here.