We need to make raising children a pathway to power for women

RAISING children is a passion.

Thu, 16 Aug, 2012 - 01:00

It is a passion experienced more often by women than by men.

I know I will probably get hate mail and be snubbed at parties for saying this. When I have said it before, on radio and on TV, the reaction has been intense.

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