And, by the way, then as now, the teen birth rate was dropping. The out-of-wedlock rate was increasing as a percentage of a smaller number of teen births in general, but they played us there too, in order to raise the specter of a potential welfare boom.<\/p>\n

Still think we’re post-racial? \u00a0We may be post-conscious, but certainly not past creating public policy based on less overt but no less effective forms of racism.<\/p>\n

Oh, and note to leaders of both major parties:\u00a0 women of all colors will have won the war against them when politicians stop treating their issues like ammunition and their bodies like battlefields, and political leaders start acting like women are people.<\/p>\n

I don’t mean just folks<\/em>, I mean the people<\/em> who still carry the primary<\/em> responsibility of raising children with limited services such as daycare, many of whom must also<\/em> work outside the home where they make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes.\u00a0 A little respect is in order here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The b.s. that passes for news is enough to give a person the information superhighway version of road rage. Hardly a word of substance had been uttered about moms until\u00a0 Hilary Rosen‘s statement that work-at-home mom of five Anne Romney never worked \u201ca day in her life\u201d became ammo in the war over women(s’ votes). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,65,66,1445,67,44,68,69,70,71,72,73],"coauthors":[1367],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-anne-romney","tag-bill-clinton","tag-chicago-welfare-queen","tag-collection","tag-hilary-rosen","tag-mitt-romney","tag-national-center-for-health-statistics","tag-personal-responsibility-and-work-opportunity-reconciliation-act","tag-republican-southern-strategy","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-war-on-women","tag-welfare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racefiles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racefiles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racefiles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racefiles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racefiles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racefiles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9721,"href":"https:\/\/www.racefiles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/9721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racefiles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racefiles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racefiles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racefiles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}