The Time to Care Guide aims to help Christians advocate for paid family leave in a principled way. It offers concrete tools, like sample letters and emails to public office-holders.
In this Time to Care article, we take a brief look into the lives of five families who have struggled against constraints to find time to rest, play and care for family.
As Amanda and her husband prepare to grow their family, she shares about her experience of advocating for paid family leave in her workplace and how its implementation will impact her growing family.
In this week’s Time to Care article, Maria shares what she has learned about the importance of family time from working in child welfare. She shares how kinship caregivers don’t receive the services that enable them to rest and fully flourish.
As a family doctor, Matthew Loftus saw mothers struggling to care for their newborns due to the demands of their workplace. He shares how our labor laws should include provisions that protect families ability to care for itself in this week’s Time to Care.
The Time to Care Guide aims to help Christians advocate for paid family leave in a principled way. It offers concrete tools, like sample letters and emails to public office-holders.
In this Time to Care article, we take a brief look into the lives of five families who have struggled against constraints to find time to rest, play and care for family.
As Amanda and her husband prepare to grow their family, she shares about her experience of advocating for paid family leave in her workplace and how its implementation will impact her growing family.
In this week’s Time to Care article, Maria shares what she has learned about the importance of family time from working in child welfare. She shares how kinship caregivers don’t receive the services that enable them to rest and fully flourish.
As a family doctor, Matthew Loftus saw mothers struggling to care for their newborns due to the demands of their workplace. He shares how our labor laws should include provisions that protect families ability to care for itself in this week’s Time to Care.
Carol, who works in child welfare for the State of New Jersey, shares why young adults should care about public and workplace policies that support family flourishing.
Kaycie works with adolescents at a faith-based inpatient behavioral health hospital in the Midwest. In this article, she shares the challenges that these families face in finding time to participate in the healing of their children.
When Kim and her husband adopted a young boy with physical and cognitive impairments, her family, friends, church, and coworkers stepped in to help her family during their time of need.
Susan is a mother of two, who cared for her husband after he was diagnosed with a terminal illness and then for her son during a serious bout of depression. Her employer’s paid leave policy made all the difference.
Hope is a social worker. In her role, she provides parenting training and helps families deal with barriers to housing, childcare and transportation - all while struggling to protect her time for her own daughter.
While Peter was planting a church, his pregnant wife was diagnosed with a serious illness. With a time-consuming job, two kids at home, and another on the way; Peter was forced to make tough choices about where he was spending his time.
It's hard to manage being a full-time mom. It’s also hard to manage being a full-time student. Krista is both. Her story highlights the obstacles and daily difficulties that come along with both of these roles.
Not all workers have access to family-supportive policies, which prevents flourishing in times of unexpected distress and hardship. The story of Diane, a newlywed, demonstrates the importance of such policies when unexpected circumstances rock family stability.
We all know what it is like to wish for more time - more time before an approaching midnight deadline, before kids ask for dinner, before "goodbye." But not everyone has access to the time they need to fulfill God's calling for their families.
Time to Careisa new series featuring the voices of families. Through vulnerable conversation and reflection, Time to Care will consider how the sphere of work has encroached on the family, and help us collectively discern what justice requires to ensure all families have the freedom to flourish.
This series will debut in November and is in partnership with Families Valued, an initiative of the Center for Public Justice that advances policies that honor God's call to both work and family life.