Proposed state budget cuts to the Healthy Families Program remain at $90 million. If this cut is included in the final budget package, an estimated 570,000 children would lose their only source of affordable health coverage, unless funding from outside sources is secured. In fact, the Managed Risk...

A recent Good Morning America story reflected something I’m hearing more of from friends: now doesn’t feel like a safe time to take a full maternity leave. As Ellen Galinsky notes in the piece “The issue for women these days is that they are increasingly important financial supporters of the family...

From Your Woman In Washington Written by MOTHERS volunteer Kelly Coyle DiNorcia (ahimsamama.blogspot.com) I recently took a ride down to Princeton, NJ to see a talk given by a woman named Shannon Hayes. It was about what she calls Radical Homemaking, or Enlightened Homemaking. Radical Homemakers...

(This piece is part of the Fem2.0 blog carnival : For Women, the Other Side of Work Isn't Play, It's Caregiving. ) I’m tired. My job and two kids take it out of me both physically and mentally, every day. The husband, a most loving partner and doting father, is happy to help, eager for instruction...