Democrats slam plan to pay stay-at-home parents

JD Vance is right about stay-at-home parents — but his solution is all wrong

Vance is right that parents should have more opportunities to spend time with their young children. But instead of paying people not to work, why not give businesses stronger incentives to make it easier for working parents to stay home when they need to?

Trump Admin Plan to Help Stay-At-Home Moms Faces Concerns

Married Stay-at-Home Parents (SAHPs) caring for children could become eligible for up to $9,000 per child annually in federal assistance if a draft proposal reportedly now under consideration in the Trump administration ­— with vigorous encouragement from Vice President JD Vance — becomes law. But Family Research Council President Tony Perkins is waving a yellow […]

The Backlash to the Stay-at-Home-Parent Subsidy Is Overblown

The welfare state may be a serious problem, but a welfare state that does not discriminate against traditional families is an improvement.

The Trump administration’s culture war on childcare is hurting Wisconsin families

Vice President JD Vance is promoting a Trump administration plan to siphon off federal money that helps working parents afford childcare and use it to subsidize parents who stay at home. The man who ran for office mocking “childless cat ladies” is now trying to stir up a cat fight between working and stay-at-home moms. […]

Contributor: JD Vance's convoluted scheme to pay stay-at-home parents

If the administration wants to help families, it should remove the barriers that make raising children so expensive.

Slog AM: El Niño Is Getting Stronger, Sen. Patty Murray Is Going After Trump, and Trump’s Bribing Americans to Vote Republican

Sen. Patty Murray’s pissed at Trump. In an effort to encourage “traditional” families, the Trump administration wants to pay  married, stay-at-home parents with money from the Child Care and Development Fund, which was established in 1990 as a way to help parents—both single and married—pay for childcare so they could go back to work. “It’s […]