It Takes A Village
by Hillary Rodham Clinton · first published 1995
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For more than twenty-five years, First Lady Hiliary Rodham Clinton has made children her passion and her cause. Her long experience with children - not only through her personal roles as mother, daughter, sister, and wife but also as advocate, legal expert, and public servant - has strengthened her conviction that how children develop and what they need to succeed are inextricably entwined with the society in which they live and how well it sustains and supports its families and individuals. In other words, it takes a village to raise a child. This book chronicles her quest - both deeply per
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In the 1990s, while first lady, Clinton served on a task force for public healthcare [0], and she wrote a book entitled It Takes a Village arguing for this and other state intervention. Regardless of how left she is compared to parties in other countries, this immediately placed her on the left of the USA's partisan divide. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_19...…
Perhaps all documents should be watermarked “grammar improved by Microsoft Word” or “Animation effects provided by Keynote” or have films watermarked with “Automatic Color Correction provided by DaVinci.” It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton: “Ghostwritten by Barbara Feinman.” If we want to watermark GPT, fine — then let’s watermark absolutely everything not directly and personally created by the claimed creator. But we’re…
on “OpenAI won't watermark ChatGPT text because its users could get caught” ↗…me one of the most interesting things about this issue is how it trended recently because someone actually read and thought for a moment about what Hillary Clinton wrote about in her best-selling book "It Takes a Village", about how they used prison labor during her time in the Arkansas governors mansion: http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-prison-labor-african... the fact that this was only widely noticed 20 years…
on “Louisiana records give insight into businesses that utilize prison labor” ↗No, it was a tongue-in-cheek reference to Hillary Clinton's book, "It Takes A Village," which is often cited, correctly or not, as a touchstone of government-knows-best parenting. Apologies for the USA-centric reference :)
on “‘Unsubstantiated’ child neglect finding for free-range parents” ↗I agree that it is propaganda, but ghostwriting is kinda common for politicians. Reagan's famous "Tear done this wall" speech was written by Peter Robinson. [1] Hillary Clinton's book "It Takes a Village" was written by an uncredited ghostwriter named Barbara Feinman. [2] There are many other examples. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Robinson_(speechwriter... [2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Takes_a_Village
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