Which puts into question why huge allowances are given to growth industries such as oil, but not to the household sector. Child-centered communities, where neighbourhoods are geared to children and people at least as much as to cars, where community centers provide early childhood development assistance, affordable licensed child care, youth activities. In family law at least, unpaid contribution to the care of children has been recognized, albeit undervalued. In most other policy areas, including the tax system and government benefit programs, motherwork remains unrecognized. The few programs which are aimed at mothers are tied to salaried work.
None are poorer than the children of lone mothers.
To all mothers, Happy Druthers' Day. Rosella Melanson First published in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal May 2000. Rosella Melanson is a writer residing in Moncton. Her column, Subject to Debate, appears in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal.