[USA]: Moms with young children and nursing babies need your help with the DNC!

[bialogue]

We're answering a call to action from the National Organization for Women ~ Pacific Shore OC branch and their venerable (and out bisexual we're mighty proud to say) organizer Zoe Nicholson. It seems that children will not be allowed access on the floor of the Democratic National Convention and that daycare will not be provided for delegates who

Comments

[livtheobsession]

I know this is sort of going to be a unpopular opinion and I totally understand that providing childcare is a HUGE deal for a lot of women. Still, I don't think that it's mandatory that the convention allow children inside.

[noodledays]

of course it's not mandatory. doesn't mean it's the decent and respectable thing to do for the party that purports itself as the party looking after women.

[fortunaestcaeca]

+1

[redstar826]

A baby I could understand because they would likely sleep right through it. But, I just can't imagine a 4 year old finding the convention remotely interesting. Poor kid would probably be bored out of her mind on the convention floor.

That said, I'm surprised there aren't some sort of arrangements for delegates with small children.

[alltheshooting]

There should absolutely be on-site child care and I'm gobsmacked by the comments suggesting this isn't an issue. Way to exclude mothers from politics and make them feel unwelcome in feminist spaces

[pinkminx]

Way to welcome mothers, especially poor and disenfranchised mothers without good support networks, to politics. It's great to see all these comments espousing some type of Capitalism Lite as feminism, only, you know, not.

[cellared]

+1 all over the place.

[lauredhel]

I wonder how they think they're going to get away with banning nursing children?

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_14/GS_14-190.9.html

"(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a woman may breast feed in any public or private location where she is otherwise authorized to be, irrespective of whether the nipple of the mother's breast is uncovered during or incidental to the breast feeding."