We’ve certainly heard a lot about the presidential and vice presidential candidates’ roles as parents. What we haven’t heard, however, are their views on work life policy, New York Times reporter Lisa Belkin points out in her blog, “Motherlode: Adventures in Parenting.”

“Ask people with children what most shapes their worldview, and being a parent would likely be high on the list,” Belkin writes. “And yet we don’t make our political decisions as ‘parents,’ don’t base our vote on the candidates views of how to help families juggle life and work, don’t see parents as an interest group.”

Belkin interviewed Ellen Galinsky, president of the non-partisan Families and Work Institute. Galinsky thinks its time for voters to ask about the candidates’ position on things like workplace flexibility, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the “time famine” that many working parents experience.

How does your perspective as a mom, dad or grandparent influence the way you vote?

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