Benefits: Why Stay Home

Many of the Guides here at About are stay-at-home parents. Learn a little about them, their children, and why they decided to stay at home.

This is one reader's touching account of her greatest reward as a stay-at-home parent.

Guest author Marsha Hall shares the story of her sometimes rocky transition from working mother to stay-at-home mother.

Study of Early Child Care has concluded that "the more hours a child spends during the first three years of life in nonmaternal care the less positive the child's interactions with his/her mother".

Other parents share their reasons for being a stay-at-home parent.

Sometimes we get so wrapped-up in the everyday hassles of parenting, that we overlook the real reasons we became Stay-at-Home Parents.

Information and excerpts from the book Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-At-Home Parent, by Isabelle Fox, Ph.D.

This is the official Dr. Laura Schlessinger site. She is a controversial radio talk host who believes strongly in parents staying-at-home.

In this controversial article by editor Rich Lowry, he says, "We will do everything for "the children": spend untold taxpayer dollars on them, tuck them away in bicycle helmets, get hysterical about any perceived threat to their health or safety -- anything but acknowledge the harm done to them by day care."