Politics of Parenting: Links!
Have you been radicalized by the birth of your child? breastfeeding?
Here’s some links!
TAKE BACK YOUR TIME is a major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment.
Transform Your Life By Learning To Do More With Less
Why Social Security Matters to Mothers
It’s time for a new set of values. Men and women ought to be able to share paid work in the way that works best for their families without penalty. Ownership of retirement assets acquired during a marriage should be shared equally by spouses while they are married and after a divorce. Social Security benefits ought to be related not only to paid employment but also to the unpaid work of caring for children, the elderly and the disabled.
campaigning for health, justice, sustainability, peace, and democracy.
The Foundation is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism. It supports a number of movements that contribute to this objective including accurate nutrition instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture-feeding of livestock, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies. Specific goals include establishment of universal access to clean, certified raw milk and a ban on the use of soy formula for infants.
Ten thousand years ago the Agricultural Revolution was the beginning of a drastic change in the human diet that continues to this day. Today more than 70% of our dietary calories come from foods that our Paleolithic (Stone Age) ancestors rarely, if ever, ate. The result is epidemic levels of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis, gastrointestinal disease, acne, and more.
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.
Why Locally Grown?
People worldwide are rediscovering the benefits of buying local food. It is fresher than anything in the supermarket and that means it is tastier and more nutritious. It is also good for your local economy–buying directly from family farmers helps them stay in business
Going vegetarian has never been easier, and we’re here to help! From our fantastic recipes and list of favorite products and favorite vegetarian cookbooks to our free vegetarian starter kit and online shopping guide, PETA has all the information you need to adopt a healthy and humane vegetarian diet!
Gentle Birth-Myths about Childbirth Exposed
Science has not been able to improve upon the human body and the way it was designed to work.
In 20 other countries, more babies survive their first months of life than in the U.S.
Citizens for Midwifery – the only national consumer-based group
promoting the Midwives Model of Care!
CfM works to provide information and resources that promote the local midwife,
as well as midwives and midwifery care across the country!
come to Bornfree!, a site dedicated to the belief that women are the true experts of birth.
Drugs, machinery, and medical personnel are no match for a woman’s own intellect and intuition. Birth is sexual and spiritual, magical and miraculous - but not when it’s managed, controlled, and manipulated by the medical establishment, or hindered by the mother’s own mind.
My hope is that the articles and stories on this site will help women and men to cast off their fears and to begin to believe in their own abilities.
