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Kids First Parents Association of Australia

ESTABLISHED 2009
CELEBRATING PARENTS PUTTING KIDS FIRST!
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What We Are

We are a non-profit association with these objectives:

  1. To promote the optimal care and well-being of children.


  2. To recognise the enormous social and economic value of parental childcare, including the care work itself and unwaged work within families and the community.


  3. To defend parents' childcare choices without discrimination, including funding inequity.


  4. To ensure childcare information is full and accurate, especially from tax-funded agencies.




    5. What We Do and Why

    We are a communications network of people working to better the lives of children
    and their families. Through our efforts we endeavour to raise the social status and
    support for the time devoted to care giving and the anchor it provides to a healthy society.

    We know that every mother is a working mother.

    We know government has a complimentary responsibility to support and not to
    replace families     in child-rearing. The responsibility of the state is to
    defend families and children from harm by other sectors.

    We focus on examining legal, financial, social and political obstacles that deny
    parents reliable information and equality in their choices regarding the child-rearing
    style they believe is best for their family, be it care by a neighbour, friend, relative, babysitter, parent in a home-based office, tag-team
    parents, parent at home full-time, family day home, daycare or other.

    Kids First aims to provide data that exposes unfair discrimination against family-
    based care-giving of children and those (mostly mothers) who do it.
    Discrimination is widespread.

    We aim to eliminate discrimination in legislation and policy concerning -

    definitions of “child care” that exclude care by family/parents
    definitions of “work” that exclude care-work outside of the GDP sector
    funding for lobbying
    child care funding and subsidies
    taxation
    unemployment insurance
    maternity benefits
    social assistance
    census data
    child and spousal support
    pensions, etc.

    We are a voice for the majority of families that do not use daycare even heard by legislators.

    Kids First networks with other parent support groups here and abroad.
    The movement to value caregiving labour has become a major force in
    sociological studies as well as a focus of the next big push in the
    struggle for women's equality.

    Kids First primarily uses the internet to communicate and is exploring
    options for a legal challenge to discriminatory legislation and policies.
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Our childcare funding is unfair!

Download government figures here


Should stay-at-home mums get paid for childcare?

Download a 5 October 2009 radio interview with
Tempe Harvey the Kids First President. Most Australian kids - those not in daycare - are missing out on their fair share of funding.



Management Committee:
  • Tempe Harvey—President
  • Susan Guy—Secretary
  • Megan Pitcher—Treasurer




Kids First Australia aims to provide transparent, accurate data with references. We apologize for any inadvertent data errors or relevant omissions. We ask that you inform us of any errors you notice. Thank you.
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work with all parties and all interests to seek equality for all families.

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