At-Home Mothers and All Family Caregivers Need Security in Retirement .

The answers may seem obvious, but to move Congress and the President to pass a law giving Social Security retirement credits to at-home mothers, it is crucial to answer these faqs:

Is this relevant to me?
Who started this website?
Why Social Security Retirement Credits for Mothers and Full-Time Caregivers?
How much Social Security income am I going to receive in retirement as a result of being an at-home mother?
Why does it hurt to leave your paid job to care for your children?
What do we want and why?

Why does this problem exist?

Why would low income women benefit from caregiver credits?

Why would caregiver credits benefit African American and Hispanic women?

Who will pay for this proposal?
How long will it take to succeed in our mission? 
How does an idea like ours become a law?

What is Lobbyline.com?

Our mission is to change Social Security laws to provide retirement earnings credits to at-home mothers and other family caregivers for work done rearing children. This site constitutes a major initiative of Secure Mom Coalition, a dynamic effort that will represent millions of underrepresented moms by serving as an advocacy arm of membership

organizations that work on behalf of mothers.  Melody Webb, the director of Secure Mom, has served as a liaison to Mocha Moms, a support group for at-home mothers, a steering committee member of the Lawyers-At-Home Forum of the Women's Bar Association of Washington, D.C..

This website devotes itself to moms – millions of whom at some point in the past, present, or future care for their children as their primary avocation, full or part-time. Raising their children has been their central employment, the priceless rewards of being primary caregiver their only pay.

The financial tab left from the war and the rebuilding of Iraq coupled with our sense of unease in the wake of 9-11 have fueled a national insecurity. Mothers need to pay special attention to their financial status in this weak economy.  If we don't see the impact of this weak economy now in the form of low wages or job instability, we mothers will see its effects in the future.  For, mothers bear the burden of weak economies - sporadic work histories and low wages - in retirement.  It is reflected in lower savings, lower pensions, and lower benefit levels that are caused by depressed earnings of an anemic economy. The future is now.  Let's start preparing for it.  Let's tell Congress to give us Social Security credits!