According to new Ohio studies, there are no mothers of children under 18

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According to the new study, Ohio is one of 29 states without a minor child in Congress.

Vote the Mama Foundation, Non -profit, which examines the political participation of mothers in the United States, Recently released A study showing 7.2% Congress members are mothers of children under 18, which is an augment of 8.3% compared to the last congress. 22.9% of the Congress are fathers with underage children.

“Legislators are rewriting their spontaneous experience, and now too few legislators in Congress know how it is navigated in the care of children, school pick-ups and the cost of raising children in America” Vote the founder and general director of the Mama Foundation, Liuba Grechen Shirley, said in a statement. “The US does not support parents.”

The report showed that almost 30 states are not in the congress of minor children: Ohio, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Northern Karolina, Northern Dakota, Northern Dakota Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

“It’s not just a gap in the national team; it’s a crisis,” said Shirley in a statement.

According to the report, American representatives Ohio. Greg Landsman, Max Miller and Mike Carey, together with Senator Jon Husted, are fathers of minor children. Landsman is a democrat, while Miller, Carey and Husted are republicans.

According to the survey, there are 39 mothers of minor children and 124 daddies of minor children. 69.2% of mothers are democrats, and 61.3% of juvenile fathers are Republicans.

Mama voting report from last year, which was only about 6% of state legislators Ohio They are mothers with children under 18, taking 37th place in the country. While Last year’s report, Eight 132 state legislators of Ohio are children under 18 years of age.

According to the California, Florida and New York report, they have the most mothers of minor children with four.

Delaware, Idaho, Mississippi, New Hamppshire, New Mexico, Nevada, Wisconsin and Wyoming do not have parents of underage children in the congress.

Vote, my mother had eight recommendations for Congress:

1. Create a reasonable voting schedule that does not require members to leave families at unpredictable moments.
2. Normalize parents who make a decision about life in their district or in the capital based on what is best for their families.
3. Let members vote according to proxy or practically so that they can perform their duties remotely when they or their families have increased care needs.
4. Normalize Congress members using campaign funds in order to pay for childcare or depending on the dependence and let them apply the campaign funds to cover security costs.
5. Normalize federal candidates using funds for campaign to pay pay and cover dependent care.
6. Create an official family policy to allow members to care for families without a stigma.
7. Install the changing tables in the bathrooms of all members, regardless of gender, and ensure the availability of pumping pumping in all legislative buildings.
8. Expand children’s and Senate care centers to reduce waiting lists and better meet the needs of legislators and employees.

Herring reporter Megan Henry on BlueSky.