Article snippet: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand attacked former vice president Joe Biden over his record on women’s issues in Wednesday night’s debate, bringing up a stance the former Senator from Delaware took in the 1980s in opposition to expanding child care tax credits to high income families. Gillibrand used an op-ed written by Biden from that time period explaining his stance to suggest he was not supportive of working mothers. “What did you mean when you said, when a woman works outside the home it’s resulting in, quote, ‘the deterioration of the family,” Gillibrand said, referencing the headline of the op-ed. “At the very beginning, my deceased wife worked,” Biden countered. “My present wife has worked all the way through, raising our children.” Biden’s first wife and daughter were killed in a car crash in 1972. As he talked about the legislation he supported in the Senate that he argued helped women, he also hit back at Gillibrand, suggesting she was only attacking him to score political points. “I don’t know what’s happened except that you’re now running for president,” Biden said. Gillibrand’s campaign posted a copy of the op-ed on Twitter following the debate. In it, Biden argues that low income families shouldn’t be asked to subsidize day care for upper income families who can afford it on their own. “I do not believe it fair to ask a family of marginal income, choosing to provide the primary care for their children, to subsidize an upper income family’s day care,” Bide... Link to the full article to read more