it's about our kids
Presidential Candidates and Child Policy -- 2008
Children are America's future. While parents and communities bear the major responsibility for raising children, government has a crucial role to play - in health, education, and social development.
Child policy issues, however, can easily be overshadowed in Presidential campaigns and don't always receive the attention they deserve. Candidates themselves may not speak out on important child policy issues; and when they do, their statements may attract little press or attention.
The itsaboutourkids.org website is designed to raise child policy issues to the prominence they deserve. In particular, it builds upon the opportunity Iowans have to meet with Presidential candidates and raise child policy issues.
Within this site you will find:
- Presidential Candidates' responses to a survey on child and family policy issues such as child health care, early education, and family economic security;
- Contact information for Presidential Candidates;
- Links to state and national child policy advocacy and research organizations;
- Links to Candidates' websites with additional information about their positions on other important policies related to children and families; and
- Resources for persons attending Presidential Candidate events in Iowa and information about preparing for and attending the Iowa caucuses.
This website has been developed by the Child and Family Policy Center, a nonprofit research and policy organization in Des Moines, Iowa.