It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter verified paper trail.

Even though mother's issues are not front page news they touch us all personally, some more than others and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.