Old Lyme After 12 years as part of the International MOMS Club, members of one local chapter have decided to cut the cord amid allegations of discrimination directed at its mother organization.
Leaders of the MOMS Club of Old Lyme-Old Saybrook defected earlier this year in order to form the Family Club of the Connecticut River Valley.
Family Club president Jolene Brant, of Old Lyme, said the change was prompted by longstanding discomfort with the MOMS Club s strict focus on stay-at-home mothers only, combined with a more recent dispute over politics and racism.
Brant served as the president of the MOMS Club chapter before spearheading efforts to reorganize as the Family Club. She worked with the other four members of the former MOMS Club executive board to make the transition happen.