Romney's Equal Pay Answer: Two Solid Minutes of FAIL

[SheilaT]

41. I got married in 1980

and had two kids and was a happy stay-at-home mom the entire time they were growing up. Among the reasons I stayed home was that I saw there was absolutely no support out there for a working mom. It made me angry then, it makes me angry now. I also didn't have any kind of career I was dedicated to, so it wasn't hard to give up paid employment.

But I was 32 when I got married, so I didn't exactly go from my parents' home to my husbands'. My mother worked as a nurse most of my life, and when I was 14 she left an abusive, alcoholic husband, moved us five kids across the country to start a new life. It's a scarily common story.

As someone else in this thread has already pointed out, the change that needs to be made is for corporations and businesses to understand that personal life really is more important than the job. Unfortunately, too many of those running the corporations and businesses are a lot like Romney: they're workaholics whose life IS the job; they have a stay-at-home spouse who manages the home life; they can afford an army of servants and personal helpers, which means they haven't a clue what life is like for the vast majority of workers, whether single, married, divorced, with or without children.

It's partly a generational thing, but it is clear that Obama gets it about working moms.