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If nothing else, the recent spate of poor women of color being arrested for letting their kids go to parks alone has raised awareness of the scarcity of affordable childcare in this country. Now lets do something about it! The demonization of poor mothers but particularly of black mothers was used to sell the welfare reform policy signed into law by Bill Clinton, the precise policy that made it necessary for mothers like Debra Harrell to go to work at McDonalds and not to be home with their children, a policy that shoved parents into work and did nothing to provide them with childcare. This same stereotype of the lazy bad welfare queen serves to reinforce our idea of childcare as a private responsibility rather than a community good, and thus leaves us all without a childcare system that works. m.thenation/blog/181333-how-end-criminalization-americas-mothers
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:33:50 +0000

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