Tired of the bad rap given to her stay-at-home mom peers, a Boise, Idaho, mother of three is trying to boost the image of those who have left the workplace for full-time child-rearing.
Through her newsletter, Mother Nurture: The Homemaking Newsletter of the ’90s, Beth Young has created a mailbox community.
While choosing to care for a family full-time has become a less-eyebrow-raising prospect in the post-ambitious ’90s, it deserves more validation as a viable career, says Young, who has a political science degree and who claims 600 subscribers to her eight-times-a-year publication.
A sample of articles: “Treating Homemaking as a Professional Job” and “Using Old-Fashioned Values to Strengthen Modern Families.”
The cost: $20 a year. To subscribe, send a check and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Mother Nurture, P.O. Box 16252, Boise, Idaho, 83715-6252.
