I’ve Veronica and I’m a mom with a lot of issues. Every other week I’ll share some of them with you and I hope we have a great discussion. While I will focus my issues around the media’s portrayal of working moms, I won’t limit myself to that either.

My stance is that as a society we are all still adjusting to the idea of working mothers aka women who have small children and work outside the home, either part-time or full-time. Because our society moves at a snail’s pace in reacting to the rapid change that has happened, it confounds a lot of people, especially those in the media, about whether we are selfish or Superwomen. That said, the fact that every mother is a working mother also confounds people. What do you mean that cleaning and nurturing your child is work? That’s what you are built for right? Well, yes…and no.

Unfortunately the way that our economic system is set up, those of us who do leave the workforce or reduce our participation pay a cost at the end of our lives in reduced Social Security or retirement funds. For some feminists that means we shouldn’t leave the workforce at all. Lisa Bennetts and others make that claim over and over in books, articles, and on TV news shows. That reputation followed Bennetts to Work it, Mom! when she recently posted her first of a series of articles on working moms. I, on the other hand, am a bit more radical and don’t call into question if you or I should leave work, but rather if we do, who will take care of US while we are wiping snotty noses. My solution? Social Security credits. It’s not perfect and certainly not if you think that our Social Security system will belly-up in the near future. A personal solution? A legal contract between partners that the working partner will deposit x% of their income to a retirement fund for the stay-at-home-partner.

And that’s just one issue that I’ll tackle in this blog.

If you have an issue you’d like discussed, feel free to leave a comment or send me a message via the Work it, Mom! system. I love reader participation!

Thank you to Work it, Mom! for inviting me to write for this new blog. We’re going to have a lot of fun here!