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Something Else
The Media Didn’t Tell You
By Kate Burch
County News Online
would like to welcome Kate Burch to its family of contributors. A brief
bio for Kate is posted below. Watch for her columns each Friday on CNO.
If, like me, you are pleased to see a recent trend (or mini-trend) for
more mothers to stay home with their babies and young children, you
will be un-pleased to know that President Obama’s new plan to help
middle-class families most definitely does not help families that have
only one employed parent.
His plan would triple the existing child-care tax credit for two-earner
families with children under age five and a combined income of less
than $120,000, and it would establish a new $500 tax credit for
families in which both spouses are employed. Families who choose to
have a parent at home--and about one-third of families with young
children do—would get no tax relief.
According to the Pew Research Center, 60% of Americans say that
children are better off when a parent stays home with them, while only
35% believe that children do just as well without a stay-at-home
parent.
A few months ago, Obama made a speech which was widely regarded as
demeaning the child-rearing role when he said that leaving the
workplace to stay home with the kids is “not a choice we want Americans
to make.” It may be that his intended meaning was that mothers
should be able to afford to work if they wish and not be prevented from
doing so by the cost of child care. On the other hand, organized
labor has been doing its darndest to rule out any possibility of
affordable child care for many.
A more ominous interpretation of his speech and his proposed tax policy
is that the President, and much of his party, are hostile to the
traditional family and want the indoctrination of your babies and
grandchildren to begin ever earlier.
Kate Burch is a
conservative woman and information junkie who cares passionately about
political and social trends that she fears are bringing about our
nation’s loss of position as the “Shining City on a Hill.” A retired
clinical psychologist who currently lives in Dayton, Kate now spends
much of her time involved in attempting to inform and educate people
about these matters through work on the Political Education/Legislative
Board of the Ohio Federation of Republican Women. Kate is a wife,
mother, grandmother, and cat lover. She also loves sewing,
quilting, and cooking.
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