in case the SCHIP decision didn’t do enough to help women and children (/sarcasm) you can always count of dubyah to come riding in like a heroic cowboy to save the day (ok…now /sarcasm).
now, it has been five years since i have been on WIC. (actually i was declined in CA b/c i was far enough below the poverty level, but would have been if my husband had still been around to leech off of me…oish!) i am not overly aware of how well it is meeting the needs of women, infants and children today, but this sure as shit isn’t going to help things.
i am willing to bet the program is doing the best they can. five years ago, i worked w/ a guy who was raising his baby alone b/c the mother took off and never looked back (yes, it happens sadly) and was trying to get on WIC, but was declined numerous times b/c, they told him, it is called Women, Infants and Children. i wrote to my congressman again, and the WIC office itself tearing them a new one for such an outrage, and eventually he was approved (not b/c of me, but i am sure my rage helped). i like to think that things like that don’t happen anymore, that fathers who are actually in the same exact financial situation that some mothers find themselves don’t meet such silly restrictions. same standards for the same qualifications, no matter who it is. see? feminist issues help teh menz too! duh!
