Denied. That’s the response Holly McCall of Virginia received when she recently applied for a credit card. The reason? Holly is a stay-at-home mother. Effective October 1st – just as parents are stocking up on holiday gifts – credit card companies are required to consider an applicant’s individual income, rather than household income, to qualify [...]
Only an industry that thought it was a good idea to charge customers for checking bags (something people already don’t want to do!), could possibly come up with this genius idea. Wait for it… assigning children in seats away from their parents. Honestly, it’s so outrageous, it makes me laugh (but that unhinged laugh that [...]
Last week, California legislators came together across party lines (yes, you read that right!) to support a bill that would prevent a 37% budget cut to our state’s Healthy Families Program. Hooray! The Healthy Families Program provides health insurance to nearly 900,000 children in California. This bill to stop the cuts to the Healthy Families [...]
Ironically, at a time when the significant short and long-term health benefits of breastfeeding are becoming widely recognized, women around the country are facing both rhetorical and direct attacks on their decision to breastfeed. While every major medical authority is working tirelessly to encourage women to breastfeed their babies exclusively for six months (with continued [...]
Earlier this year, MomsRising member Heather Burgbacher wrote to us to share her story about the discrimination she was facing after seeking accommodations to express breastmilk while working at a public charter school in Colorado. Heather shared her distress that after years of receiving excellent evaluations for her work, her teaching contract had not been [...]
Breastfeeding is the most natural thing in the world. But that doesn’t always mean that it’s easy or that there’s no learning curve. Many mothers need a lot of support from friends, family and employers to start and continue breastfeeding exclusively for at least 6 months as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, and to keep [...]
Now that my youngest child is mobile, I’m learning that the best way to prevent conflict is to keep everyone busy. Bored kids = chaos! Washington should take heed. As members of Congress await a decision about the debt ceiling from their party leaders, we should urge them to use this time to do something [...]
The constant drumbeat in the news about the federal deficit and its potentially dire consequences for our country has parents like me nervous. The last thing I want is to leave my two precious children with a crippling debt that will limit their future security and prosperity. I don’t have much time for new research projects [...]
Summer is heating up and so are the politics in Washington. Right now, Congress is debating how to reduce the deficit. Well-heeled lobbyists representing big business and the very wealthy are descending on Washington, D.C. in full force to make sure that their corporate subsidies and tax cuts don’t get eliminated in the budget negotiations. [...]
In the first days following my son’s birth, a lactation specialist visited me in the hospital no fewer than five times. I was a confident, mature woman with a lot of life experience but the small bumps in the road to breastfeeding felt insurmountable. The empathetic, knowledgeable help I received in those hours post-partum made [...]
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