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CreekDog

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6. you shouldn't oppose helping poor families afford diapers

Reply to pretzel4gore (Reply #5)

Thu Sep 1, 2016, 02:12 PM

Sep 2016

the money provided could also help pay for a diaper service.

the changes you are seeking aren't going to change the short term need for diapers and therefore the difficulty affording them that this law seeks to ameliorate.

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California Passes First-Ever Bill To Give Poor Families Money For Diapers [View all] arithia Sep 2016 OP

Great News.........nt Stuart G Sep 2016 #1

Wonderful!!!!! etherealtruth Sep 2016 #2

Proud of my state. byronius Sep 2016 #3

Me too. Hekate Sep 2016 #16

Excellent BumRushDaShow Sep 2016 #4

no no no! pretzel4gore Sep 2016 #5

you shouldn't oppose helping poor families afford diapers CreekDog Sep 2016 #6

uuh... arithia Sep 2016 #7

why is the world so darn stupid? pretzel4gore Sep 2016 #23

My nieces and nephews were raised with cloth diapers and so are their children being raised csziggy Sep 2016 #8

Not every low income family has daily access to a washing machine. Tikki Sep 2016 #9

True - my Mom and Dad struggled to keep a working washer until my little sister was grown csziggy Sep 2016 #10

You put them in a bucket to soak and wash by hand mostly Drahthaardogs Sep 2016 #18

Sure. And Mom stayed at home to do it. And apartment buildings had washlines strung from ... Hekate Sep 2016 #21

Once you used the word Drahthaardogs Sep 2016 #22

Well aren't you the stuffy one. I call my grandson kiddo, too. Hekate Sep 2016 #24

to distract from the need for this kind of support or to oppose it in any respect is wrong CreekDog Sep 2016 #11

Where did I suggest any such thing? I was responding directly to pretzel4gore csziggy Sep 2016 #12

Are you aware that it's ADULTS who generate far more diapers for the landfills? Hekate Sep 2016 #14

We should start paying folks not to have children. roamer65 Sep 2016 #13

See my post #14 regarding adult diapers Hekate Sep 2016 #15

Less children=less adults. roamer65 Sep 2016 #19

And before that happy day arrives, what do you plan to do about hygeinic necessities? Hekate Sep 2016 #20

Good! Now if we can get everyone to throw them in a garbage can and not litter! Quantess Sep 2016 #17