There's a nice addition to the at-home dad blogosphere in Growing Things which gets off to a rocking start by taking on this Family Scholars blog posting mocking the number of at-home dads. (The Family Scholars blog is an arm of a pro-marriage think tank, FYI.) Always good to know there are SAHDs out there ready to take on this sort of thing. Thanks, Peter.
Also: Mike from Full Time Father briefly resurrected his blog after the USA Today publicity, noting this Omaha World-Herald story on an effort to give tax credits to at-home parents, who are now cut out of the child-care tax credit program designed to defray the cost of non-family care. Though the conservative members of Congress who are backing the bill probably wouldn't see it this way, the bill if passed (which I don't believe is a priority for anyone right now) would push us closer to a world in which the government would just give money to anyone with a child. Oh, and there's an effort to fix the whole Social-Security-screws-at-home-parents thing, too (though imposing a marriage requirement). That is exactly what a lot of the motherhood folks would like to see, if I remember correctly.
But the fact that this is being supported by the Family Research Council and its ilk suggests that Rebel Mom's usual critique of supports for at-home parents comes into play: incentives to at-home parents -- particularly incentives offered by folks who have not supported egalitarian policies elsewhere -- becomes an economic carrot driving women out of the workforce and toward 1950s-style gender bubbles.
Also: Mike from Full Time Father briefly resurrected his blog after the USA Today publicity, noting this Omaha World-Herald story on an effort to give tax credits to at-home parents, who are now cut out of the child-care tax credit program designed to defray the cost of non-family care. Though the conservative members of Congress who are backing the bill probably wouldn't see it this way, the bill if passed (which I don't believe is a priority for anyone right now) would push us closer to a world in which the government would just give money to anyone with a child. Oh, and there's an effort to fix the whole Social-Security-screws-at-home-parents thing, too (though imposing a marriage requirement). That is exactly what a lot of the motherhood folks would like to see, if I remember correctly.
But the fact that this is being supported by the Family Research Council and its ilk suggests that Rebel Mom's usual critique of supports for at-home parents comes into play: incentives to at-home parents -- particularly incentives offered by folks who have not supported egalitarian policies elsewhere -- becomes an economic carrot driving women out of the workforce and toward 1950s-style gender bubbles.
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