In the Childfree News Blog, I post an article and follow-up letter to the editor about MomsRising:
Childfree News: Reader Responds to Bias Against Moms
The author the letter to the editor made some very good points. The truth is, the campaign for workplace equality doesn't need to enact change to be successful. We could very well justify our mandate just by combating the powerful forces evidenced by the MomsRising movement.
It makes sense that these women would be campaigning for more perks. Hell, if I could get such popularity for one of my choices that I could get employers to subsidize it, I can't say I'd turn down the opportunity. The problem begins when these women are given such unstoppable political clout that no one is there to say when.
It seems like this is where the childfree are needed most - when a movement is so unstoppable, so supported by both parties and major players that no one stops to ask what the cost is, whether the program makes sense, and whether basic fairness is being subverted. With Moms Rising gaining heavy momentum, we need to be here to remind people that there is a limit to how much society can give, give, give to parents who want to take, take, take.
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Time to put Blogger's Word Verification in place?
More on topic, perhaps a nice template letter is needed? Do we send it to our local newspaper's editorial page editor? Some of them may have an Internet content editor. Usually they have a community voice piece somewhere. This same letter could be sent to our congressional representatives. To our choice for president in 2008.
I wonder if Hillary Clinton discussed this topic in her book It Takes a Village? Are childfree adults even in her ideal "village"? I bet they're never mentioned.
Even more direct, should we go to the mommy bloggers, search for this topic on their site and weigh in there? Now that would be an organized movement!
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