Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.