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The week, towards a real nanny state. there are two big differences between last mother's day and this one. one political, the other personal. the political difference is not only does this mother's day take place during an election year, it hits a few weeks after motherhood, the value of mothers and women's work more broadly were at the center of a news cycle. hoping to revive this theme ann romney wrote an op-ed called three seasons of motherhood. it extolls the crown of glory that all mothers wear. the personal difference for me of course is the birth of my daughter. today i'll be celebrati...

Tends to happen in a social cohort that is very upper middle class, very privileged and highly educated. a lot of these trade-off discussions and the culture of incredibly intense time-committed mothering and the sort of professionalization of mothering in a weird way. as an activity that you bring the totality of your capacity as intellectual into. that is a conversation that's happening in a specific cohort. i don't want to overgeneralize this. because i think the conversations can get blinkered. that said, it's a real issue. it strikes me as one of the points of contention about where femin...

Than it was in the 1960s when i was growing up. when you used to be able to have mom and home and dad at work. now mom and dad both have to work, whether they want to or not and they usually have to have two jobs. weed into good child cares in society. to start a child care center not off where people live, but where they work. and that is something which we helped create. a company called bright horizons. >> mitt romney, 1994 talking about a big private equity success which was helping early funding for bright horizons, a popular and successful day care business. part of the reason i think th...

♪ woman don't treat me so mean ♪ i guess if you said so >> how does the conversation about women and mothers transfer into political arguments about policies is what i'm curious to hear from you, both. i want to give someone statistic that i feel that one of our producers found that to me embodies the challenges that parents of both genders face. this is child care. child care costs more than double public college tuition in new york. more than double public college tuition. and college tuition is not cheap. in 2010, the average annual cost of public tuition in new york was $5,790. child c...

Tea party governor and one of the cuts currently on the chopping block is significant cuts to the head start program. which is obviously a program for three and 4-year-olds to get a good start. but it's part of sort of a child care network. so we're obviously having a big conversation about child care costs, child care costs are acute. my husband and i are dealing with the cost of hiring a babysitter and it's significant and we do make decisions about how we're going to balance things and how we're going to manage it. and it's something that if you're working a low-wage job, i honestly don't k...