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Patsy T. Mink: “It goes exactly against the best scientific information, which says the best nurturer of the child is the mother of the…”

On the recordMarch 24, 1994
It goes exactly against the best scientific information, which says the best nurturer of the child is the mother of the child. So to break up this relationship in a forceful manner by mandating a law that requires this seems to me an abrogation of our public policy stances, which has always been to support the family. We always stand up and say, ``I am for the family,'' and we debate how much we excel in terms of your beliefs in the family and mine. And yet when it comes to something like welfare reform, we somehow feel that we can abrogate these fundamental beliefs, and I think that is wrong.
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Patsy T. Mink
Hawaii
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Addressing concerns about welfare reform and its impact on family structures.

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