We ruffled a few feathers with this piece in our October issue. The main – okay, the only – complaint was that we covered a couple of moms who were volunteering for Barack Obama’s campaign but that we didn’t include any parents involved with the McCain campaign.
Perhaps, in hindsight, we should have done so. But, in our defense, the clear premise of that piece was not to promote one candidate or another, but rather to look at what motivates parents to become politically involved. (Indeed, the article contained several other examples, including two moms who are committed to nonpartisan issues and one father who serves on a local school board. Another mom provided an essay on what motivates her.)
What our writer discovered as she interviewed parents was that these volunteers often were not politically involved until after they became parents. They told us that, in essence, the experience of raising a family made them more aware of the plight of others (especially children), and made them more concerned about the types of policies being pursued on the state and federal level and what their impact would be on families as well as the future of the planet.
If you read the article, do you have any negative – or positive – feedback for us?
(You can read the article in its entirety by clicking here and then going to page 22.)

October 22nd, 2008 | Category: Metro Parent