After reading an interesting Parents Magazine article and having a lively political conversastion at a pajama party tonight, I am encouraged to write my feelings about this upcoming election and put it out there how I will vote.
The Parents magazine article featured a fellow mother, who described how she was first a Republican, then an Independent, then finally converted to a Democrat. But now she is something greater -- she is a Mom. She will vote for the person who will hold the children's best interests at heart. I agree with her perspective on this upcoming campaign. And I'll take it a step further -- I encourage you to review where Obama stands on many issues that us Moms care about.
There are some key issues that the organization for which I work, the YWCA, works diligently every day in our community to combat, including poverty and domestic violence. Obama was the co-sponsor and helped reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act in January 2006. He is aware of the great poverty in our nation and wants to work to fix the root of that problem, not put a bandaid on. He believes in supporting that single mother who works to provide for her children and give them a better quality life. Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, want to create a law that gives all workers a minimum of 7 sick days so that single mothers can care for their children without fear of losing their jobs.
Obama understand the important that early childhood education plays in our society -- another issue that my organization staunchly supports. He has the Zero to Five plan, which provides critical support to children and their parents.
Title IX, equal pay for an equal day; raising the minimum wage; creating an affordable health care system; ensuring our social security, creating an economic environment for women to save for retirement -- these are all issues that Obama supports for Women and Moms. I encourage you to visit his website and read up on the issues that affect all of women -- many of us who are mothers -- and vote for who I believe is the candidate who has our country -- and our children's -- future in mind.
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Women Want Safety, not Biden's Abuse of Power
Senator Joe Biden proudly proclaims that he was beaten with impunity by his sister as a youth. This is the same sister that raised his two sons after his wife and daughter were killed in an auto accident.
Biden has often claimed that the Violence against Women Act is the greatest achievement of his career. Yet he fails to recognize the role women play as perpetrators of domestic violence. Hundreds of studies show that women commit acts of domestic violence as often as, or more often than men. Many studies also show that lesbian women physically attack their intimate partners at least as often as heterosexual men.
As a result of Biden's Violence against Women Act, the federal government pays states to create laws effectively requiring that men be removed from their homes and families without even an allegation of violence, with no legitimate standards of evidence, when a woman makes a claim that she is afraid.
Elaine Epstein, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association (1999), has said "the facts have become irrelevant... restraining orders are granted to virtually all who apply. Regarding divorce cases, she states "allegations of abuse are now used for tactical advantage". According to Epstein, who is also a former president of the Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association, restraining orders are doled out "like candy" and "in virtually all cases, no notice, meaningful hearing, or impartial weighing of evidence is to be had."
State restraining order laws are starting to fall because they're unconstitutional. The federal law behind them, written by Joe Biden, is likely to fall as well, not because it isn’t popular, but because it is clearly unconstitutional.
Supporting Documentation
Here are some of the facts regarding Biden's abuse at the hand of his sister. During senate hearings held on December 11, 1990, Biden testified to the abuse.
www.ifeminists.net
Senate Hearing Transcript (see p. 171-172)
This recent CDC study indicates that women between the ages of 18 and 28 initiate reciprocal violence against their intimate partners about as often as men. It also indicates that women initiate non-reciprocal violence against their intimate partners more than twice as often as men.
pn.psychiatryonline.org
Here is a link to a bibliography of over 200 studies indicating that women are as violent as men in their intimate relationships:
www.csulb.edu
According to the US Department of Justice, women also abuse, neglect and kill their children at significantly higher rates than men. Here’s some of the data on child homicides.
www.acf.hhs.gov
Research clearly indicates that lesbian battery is at least as common as heterosexual battery.
www.musc.edu/vawprevention
lesbianlife.about.com
Cathy Young reports on the Elaine Epstein quote and the broader issue at Salon.com here:
www.salon.com
and provides in depth analysis here:
www.iwf.org
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