At a play group for stay-at-home dads and their children in Arlington, Va.

NPR: Stay-At-Home Dads Grapple With Going Back To Work

Some, like Tamara Freedman(ph), a stay-at-home mother with four children, said the army should hit Hezbollah even harder, and Israel should stop worrying about international opinion.

NPR: Most Israeli Citizens Object to Cease-Fire

Stay-at-home parents should qualify for a new government program while they are raising young children--one that provides money for good food, as well as education on cooking, meal planning and shopping--so that one parent in a two-parent household, or a single parent, can afford to be home with the children and provide wholesome, healthy meals.

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Stay-at-home parents who choose to look after their children instead of going to work are being "unfairly" penalised, the Bishop of Exeter has said.

BBC: Bishop of Exeter, Rt Rev Michael Langrish

After being a stay-at-home mom for five years, the mother of three children under age 10, she was ready to get back into action.

FORBES: Stay-At-Home Parents Choose to Start Businesses Instead of Returning to Work

Such towns have more stay-at-home parents who volunteer in schools and more opportunities for holidays that enrich their children than are available to poorer communities.

ECONOMIST: Trade and Central America

The only new policy initiatives in Mr Howard's key note policy speech 10 days before the polls offered more money on an anti-drugs campaign and for pensioners and tax breaks for parents who stay at home to raise their children.

BBC: Australia's 'empty' economic agenda