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That think this is absolutely a good idea and others who think it is absolutely not. >> when i first watched your piece today, poppy, i was almost speechless and i wanted -- we'll talk to a clinical psychologist in a moment. but you're seeing this with both gay and straight, men and women, right? >> absolutely. and the guy in our piece that started family by design, the website, told me he's actually seeing a vast majority of straight men and women that are doing this. and that even surprised him. you know, this is interesting if you look at the numbers, brooke. it tells us a lot. let's pull t...

People feel insecure in traditional companies in their jobs, they feel less willing to ask for time off to look after children. another very important factor is, that there's been many of the traditional male industries, the manufacturing, construction, things like that, which have been so badly hit in the recession. the areas where there are more women employed like health care. are still growing employment, retail as well. that's one factor which is leading to the shift in the balance. >> and rehema, one of the factors is that the college-educated, middle class women are beginning to catch u...

1960. some of the major factors, a couple, you have mormoe men bei laid off and an increase in single moms. a pew study also shows this. that most americans don't necessarily approve of the new changes. 51% according to pew say they believe kids are better off when mom stays at home. let's talk about this. joining me now, maggie, career consultant and radio host. and donna richardson, in the big d in dallas today. ladies, welcome to both of you. the topic fascinates me. let me just say that first and foremost. i want to start here first with the stigma, that, you know, not talking about workin...

But the problem is even though we have great laws in california they do now, maryland, new york, connecticut, you can name many states, as long as those guns can cross state lines without having a background check attached to them, we still need that legislation. >> reporter: but the study found that handguns, not assault weapons, were used in the overwhelming majority of gun violence, jon. jon: some eye-opening numbers there. there's another study out, the pew study, that finds americans are badly misinformed about gun violence, right? >> reporter: yeah. this pew study finds that 56% of ameri...

Hispanic, a pew study would show. it would probably benefit democrats greatly to have the new voters on the rolls. jon: if good politics is good policy and if this thing gets passed by the congress and signed into law, then you see benefits for both parties? >> no, look, i think right now you've got to look at what happened in 2012, the white vote in the united states has declined to under 75% of the vote now, that is a place where republicans have always done well. mitt romney won up near 60% of the -- of those votes. that vote declines, it's all about death rates and birth rates, and the his...