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...talk about the importance of the early years of children and their families. She's very well-schooled in what children need, especially poor children," says Brazelton, whose expertise in early-childhood rearing has helped the Clinton formulate family policy...
...Brazelton says Clinton is the voice behind much of the family welfare legislation of her husband's administration. The author of 26 books and a syndicated columnist, Brazelton criticized President Clinton and other lawmakers in 1997 for adopting welfare reform that adversely affected the nation's children...
...Still, Brazelton describes himself as "a consistent admirer" of the First Lady...
...helped bring in [the Family and Medical Leave Act] in 1995 to show how much [the administration] cared about families," Brazelton says. "It only affected 5 percent of families, but it made every CEO in the country stop and think about what they were doing in terms of family policy...
...Brazelton also credits Hillary Clinton with the progress that the Kennedy-Hatch bill and the Kerry-Bond bill have made in Congress. The former legislative proposal seeks to provide health insurance for children in low-income working families; the latter seeks to provide health and education funding for young children...