The Unique Voice of Hillary Clinton: on Families & Children

No tea and cookies for her, but no insult intended

I’ve made my share of cookies and served hundreds of cups of tea. It never occurred to me that my comment would insult mothers who choose to stay home with their children. Nor did it occur to me that the headlines would reduce me to an anti-family “career woman.”

Men should be full participants in child-raising

Women and children need men to be full participants in the raising of children, and men need the opportunity and joy of being those participants in their own families.

The primary obligation of both parents is to take whatever gift God gave you in the person of that little boy or girl and pay attention to that child’s needs, to respond to that child, to stimulate that child, to be there for that child, and to learn the kind of personality your child has so that you’re allowing your child to flourish.

Change what kids see in the media

I don’t think there is any doubt that if you give children a steady diet of what they get on most programming, it is going to distort their view of the world.