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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are a SAHM, then all your basic needs are met.  Otherwise, you would be at a paying job.  So what exactly do you want to advocate for? Even in case of divorce, divorce settlements for SAHM usually include alimony and medical insurance to continue for a period of time.

Employees get “benefits” SAHMs don’t get because their work is for someone else.  If you choose to stay home, your own family keeps all the benefits from your work.  That is the upside of staying home.  [/quote]

This is what I was wondering. The first half of the 20th century there were a number of programs that came from the Ag Dept focusing on rural women, e.g. programs to teach them "scientific" methods of things like food preservation but also women were pointed to in the push to bring electricity and phone services to rural families, pointing out how the drudgery of domestic work could be eased with electrical power and isolation eased when telephone lines reached farmhouses. And movements like the settlement houses also worked to help women--but these were programs based on the presumption that when had the responsibility to care for home and family.

Not sure about now, but as divorce rates rose in the 70s and subsequent years I know there were programs with job services to help women re-entering the workforce (the impetus being, I think, women who found themselves divorced without job skills). BUt I don't know what, specifically, OP has in mind in terms of supporting SAHM women. Programs for low income women focus on getting them out of the house and into the workplace (e.g. requirements to work or look for work in order to qualify for food assistance or, for the few who even get it now, TANF).

I do think there should be provisions to somehow credit Social Security for people (women or men) who are out of the workforce because they are caring for a family member. That happened to me, and it turned into 10 years. Because my spouse died and then I went back to work (lived on savings and SS disability benefits for several years, so savings were depleted and of course his ability to earn ended at a relatively young age)--the benefits I will get are more than spousal benefits but considerably less than if I had been contributing during those years, and the hit to savings also means an ultimate hit to other retirement assets.So definitely there should be some kind of tangible benefit to adults who provide unpaid care to an ill or disabled family member when household earnings are affected. I don't pay much attention to child tax credits these days or for that matter to expanded pre-K, but I can see some kind of support for the children where one parent is SAHM to participate in preschool. (not sure where Headstart is at, but under Trump I had heard something about Headstart transportation being cut or even gone, which was appalling--but Headstart is geared to low income families . [/quote]

Great idea! What about inflation?[/quote]

What a stupid response.

But :

[quote]approximately $470 billion
Unpaid family caregiving is on the rise in the U.S., with 41 million caregivers providing the equivalent of approximately $470 billion in unpaid assistance, according to a new report from the AARP Public Policy Institute that suggests high-population, relatively high-wage states such as California, Texas, New York and ...Nov 18, 2019

[b]Family Caregivers in US Provide $470 Billion of Unpaid Care[/b][/quote]

Which works out to $3821 per household per year. 
[url]https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2019/11/new-data-updates-the-economic-value-of-family-caregiving/[/url]

And $11,463 per household where someone is providing that care.

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Again, great idea! How much will the CPI increase from this transfer of wealth? What's the downside?[/quote]

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