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Their parents tend to do better because they can go seek work, seek education. it is a policy issue when you show up, when you have children showing up to kindergarten who don't know their letters, who aren't read to, who can't write their name, and these are things that children and headstart learn. you save money later teaching the kids sooner and it's better for the family. why would you cut head start? >> i think it's important to say what you were saying before, when we say, when republicans say they're pro family, we're pro certain kinds of family. i think it's important to get behind th...

>> i went to a protest and wound up reporting from the protest, bare-breasted with my own nursling. a woman had been thrown out of a art museum for nursing in a corner. so washington, d.c. moms converged on the smithsonian museum and i looked around and i interviewed a lot of the african-american mothers who showed up during the three hours i was there. and the stories were the same. black women who have traditionally provided domestic work, child-rearing of other children, wet-nursing of other children, there was a time after the so-called civil rights movement -- i say "so-called" a lot. in ...

This is the number of hours fathers spend doing house work. and what you see is basically there's some significant gains between 1965 and 1985 and it flat lines. part of the reason that the tradeoffs have to happen is because fathers have not really stepped up in the same way. they are spending more time with their kids. panel la, i wonder if you can give us a comparative perspective on the role of fathers in all this in france. >> french fathers, you'll be even happy to know do less child care and less keening up around the house. >> but interestingly french mothers in my perspective, my view...

The term today, meant to evoke a government that acts like a meddlesome governoress, denying us our freedom and agency and full sentist. but the nan judge state is a fitting name for a state that gives mothers the support that a nanny can, relief, another set of hands, a set of watchful, trusted eyes. a society even without an romney's privilege or a big bank account, don't have to mother alope. as one of the millions of parents negotiating the difficult world of balancing work and parenthood, that kind of nanny state sounds mighty appealing. right now joining me we have jimmy lebay, contribut...

Children report, the u.s. has the least favorable environment for breastfeeding. save the children calculated a score for 36 industrialized countries, based on maternity leave laws, rights to nursing breaks at work and policy features, norway came in first, the u.s. came in last. the affordable care act requires workplaces with more than 50 workers to create rooms where women can pump or breastfeed. and there's a whole lot more needs to be done. you should know before mother's day was an occasion for cards and flowers and brunch, not that anything is wrong with brunch, it was founded as a ra...