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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