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Who is the New Homemaker? She is the person who has discovered that having both partners in the work world is not "having it all." Children, elders and the community have been sacrificed for a generation to the crazy notion that households can run themselves. Well, they can't, and never have. Working parents have struggled valiantly to "have it all," but are increasingly saying "we've had enough"; someone has to be home. Even single parents are exploring ways to spend more time at home and less at work, or to work at home.

Unexpectedly at home, the New Homemaker now finds herself completely unprepared to run that household, with few resources to turn to. Skills and knowledge housekeepers took for granted for centuries have been lost in just 50 years' time. Traditional women's magazines are filled not with solid homemaking advice and resources, but with diets, celebrity interviews, horoscopes, romance quizzes, fashion spreads and the like. Where help is available it's frequently packaged with religious advice to "submit to your husband" that may be appropriate for some women but hardly all.

Practical Advice
TNH will provide the practical advice and resources that will further the rebirth of the household arts--the Domestic Renaissance as we like to think of it. We do this not because we're experts. Quite the opposite. We do this because this is a resource we need ourselves, a resource many of you can help us build so that we can all help each other as we re-establish the hearth fires that have very nearly burned out across this country, to its detriment.

TNH will be unabashedly non-traditional. We prefer cloth diapers to paper, breastmilk to formula, natural to chemical, thrift to convenience, equality to submission; we make our biases clear from the get-go. Mainstream resources are everywhere. TNH is for the rest of us, though we will never lecture; we know that we all do the best with what we have. We hope you will join us in making TNH a home for homemakers on the Internet.

Read the Manifesto for more ranting.

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