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Marry Rich. That’s the Republican
Plan for Moms.
March 18, 2024

The Republican Party is making
yet another appeal to mothers,
hoping to get them in Donald
Trump’s camp ahead of this year’s
presidential election. As Alabama
Senator Katie Britt put it in her
State of the Union rebuttal, “we
are the party of hardworking
parents and families. We want to
give you and your children the
opportunities to thrive — and we
want families to grow.”

Don’t buy it. Judging from
Republicans’ actual policies,
their real message couldn’t be
more different: If you care
about your kids and their future,
marry rich.

The failure to change America’s
policies amounts to an endorsement
of the status quo, in which being
a mother is dangerous, difficult
and expensive. The probability of
dying during pregnancy or soon
after childbirth has increased
every year for the past twenty,
soaring in the first two years
of the pandemic. One in six
mothers raise their children in
poverty. One in 12 must witness
their children suffer from food
insecurity. Most with kids under
six work, spending on average a
fourth of their household income
on child care — or settling for
unpaid, low-quality care from
friends and family that leads
to a steep disadvantage in
school.

Republicans have a simple solution
for the challenge of being both a
mom and a worker: Stay at home.
Focus on the traditional female
role of raising the kids. Yet for
most mothers who do so, it’s not
a choice. They typically need and
want a job, but report that they
can’t find or maintain one, in
part because child care is so
scarce and costly. They’re more
likely than their employed
counterparts to lack a higher
education and to be in poverty.
Staying home is evidence of the
economic insecurity associated
with motherhood, not a solution
to it.

Marry rich. If you think about it,
that’s effectively the Republican
platform. Take off the table
everything they oppose — paid
leave, paid sick days, strict
health insurance regulations, free
child care and labor rights for
moms — and that’s what remains,
the only sure-fire solution to the
woes of motherhood that plague the
rest of us.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-18/marry-rich-that-s- >the-republican-plan-for-moms?srnd=undefined&embedded-checkout=true

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