>> is getting people to start having a conversation, what i want for my government would' i care about it's not for people who spend all day reading politico. it is for people who just feel intimidad by those people. are people who care about their country but don't even have a way interestre talking about . at tjes ir oi education. megan is really fortunate to have come from a family that is always with heavily involved in it. you know, i was a born democrat, but the way i wsor in i r - never really spent a lot of time thinking about it until i was older. once i started doing it and thinking about what i believe or even if i believe what i believe, not sme questions started to occur

this book is about havg a goo . >>inif you like my past and politics has been bringing a different audience. i to college is al thti. manclle tuntme ey ssentit li r o. everything is so polarized and they don't want to be a part of it and they don't use their voice heard because why? we can use humor to get a very serious message aoss, i thi mn in mely powerful. th is ur third book, megan right? >> at first and second book -- one was a memoir aboutmy mp.

>> my cond book is called you are not doing it right. >>o-authors coming out in the summer of 2012, "america, you sexy bitch", a love letter t freedom. 2.u fobeon cpa >> you're watching an interview from book expo america. the publishing industry's annual trade show. for more iformation, visit book expomicco >> for the next half hour, we will talk about the new book by bay buchanan called "bay and her boys: unexpected lessons i lened as a (singlemom" . this washste yca es grqt ics for tax reform here in washington.

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september, i came back and that was, six or eightwes, rea >>t'go. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> i expected more from the books that i got donas well. >> this ga in new yok -- [iibcns >> there were some stories in the second second chapter that i thought should be in the first chapr. centhig track, [idi conversations]y.

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he is ovin to california for a possible job. butyoste now. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> i was hing that the side -- it'sot going to happen, but tu well aue eron nalecner it's nice to meet you. thank you very much. my husband is around her and she will tell you the same thing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

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d give them that in the home. so i did everything i could to compensate for that. but i knew that that was a terrible loss for them. soeaheook from thisng perspective. you know, it doesn't matter to me. if you're single a single mom, we are all in it together. it's all the same now. tbo read about a gal that i knew, i knew she was married and had children. and i ran in her. and she said i am so embarrassed beg divoed i f keai. be agl .ft d ijt wanted to show her that you can't be a failure. singleoms can't now.

they can't fail. those are al aualemotio atov oav through. the dude as quickly as you can because you have children, and they need to know that you are in charge of your life. then they know that they don't need to worry. yo are.ecaeeli you figure all those things out. you want them to have a great childhood that is the e [inaudible question] [inaudible question] >> thatcpa reayket stt tm.

they realize that they're not going to take -- they're not going to make the assumption -- [inaudible convrsatio] [inaudle ert] once it became clear, that is when it kind of started looking to make phone ls -- i'sbe rydlbee. they know exactly where they want to be. the party is more unified than i can ever remember for sure. >> does anythi ce inhe approacho b >> ihink he's been focusing his attention. -- you see that they set out

with the agenda is going to be. buthissue swe thex oe broken failed policy of the president, and i think that that is something we need to talk abut. it thank you forcmgut [lte [iibonat] udcneti ud conversations] [inaudible cnversaon nale ovrsat] [inaudible conversations] [inaudiblecovtio]

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this one's a one needs a great deal to meit is my life and story for my kids. more importantlyi wrote it for other pep r mm. w et fm grandfathers say how much they lod it and it reminded them of when they were being raised and how their dad traveled and their mom played with them -- and i have astory in my book about a bb gun, kids ne nd honge gehog other. [laughter] he says he wrote a story about the bb gun. i remember. i have three brothers and my dad came home,nt.us bows and arrows. and my brother medialy un t a b ro iryferent than a bb gun. a lot of people remembering some great times that they had been raised in raising their own children. but i will tell you wt i actually wrote this ook.

as iasaisi ere ti n the world of single moms. when i was pregnant with my third child -- i was three months pregnant with stewar. i was raised in a choc faly twros well. we have this great home. and we had at least 11 people at the dinner table. at the end of the table seven nights weewas dad he was alwste wn chnhe oe eiomgo to college and thinking that i have the greatest family in the world. it's not that we were perfect, as pat will tell you. we were far from perfect. we had a lot of interactio and energy. bui thought it was the st wofu a d kydpl a critical role in not home. when i became a single mom, i started thinking about how i had

such a great childhood and i so hoped to give y kids the same ye d hthio anymore. how can i possibly give them the kind of life that i had? >> as i write in the book, you know, when i became a single parent, i became a better sinle parent. be agl e mn t time, i always said, you know, i'm going to put my kids first. this is how it's going to be. but i didn't know what it meant for your children first until mein mom. your life is secondary. at least one television shows, i have my own program for a while. people would come on and write stories and write articles. they would say that the key is that wen have to have their iv m, rat

ac thlvtio and they used a look at these people -- and simply talking about? in my home -- woody talking out camino? gh >> this is it. my time is their time. my space is there space. i lmyd.put a tv in myeroom nehi nw twere calling on the house, we picked the movie -- the majority picks the movie. you know? idhi.togh rd e no i g t pte time. there was a tv upstairs, and that is where we all hung out. we got that out, and we we took

to be the den. i learned this from my dad. he told m one day ice e s a ightwan ghshool. he was down there sitting in a chair and relaxing and he said to me, out of nowhere,eold the story about how his dad left him when he was in third gra, i k as. ands aam rbrd school in maryland and said he was leaving. and he talked about how it affected him and h he was telling me how he would look ahead for a tall,edhaired man sc, wol n o a as father. and i thought to myself, here is a man that is enormously successful. a wonderful family. s lregn is anrehe is, six years after

the episode, talking about the day his father left him. and i thought, my goodness, you can't say the boys are not going to be affected. soav dmeg.fiv i have to see what it is that i can give them that they gave me and my brothers and sisters. as did my mother. and so, you kw, ts wh i i mykd fi st oopittle bit. when i was raised in those days, i would be on television a lot because i already had one of her career in politics. and i would watch my friends and tesiite stalofou statistics. the statistics are correct and they would say look, here are the more statistics and fas that show without question, it

is far better for children to be raised with two parents in the home. have the nmb hr u iemr likely -- five times more likely to be incarcerated, three more times likely to have real illnesses if they don't have a mom and dad in thhm - oatlnge tstanu the for us? will i do? serv or one of four dessert? it's going to end up that way, why not? [laughter] loitthstor ther n children. something that i agreed with. and i understand that if they went off message an they said if you don't have done in the home -- here is something you woul do, hih s meg w umi e gu fore of father.

for whatever reason, there was never a message of hope and encouragement for singlemoms coming from the conservative side. there never was. itas always how impotant the father s we aermont we have proof on our side. surely we have a message and we want those women out there, and men, who are raising their children alone to succeed. we want their children to thrive, oo. need to figure out why that is and what parents can do to compensate. that is where i started out and i started looking at it and i said well, if indeed the dad is so importa home, but maybe i can give my kds tesecondt a inire. ieapit to never badmouth their father. i didn't talk about what happened or why. they were four years old and two years old. and i just always try to say good things about him.

if they were starting talk out thes th o five, six, seven years old -- if i could say something positive i did. he was a marvelous athlete, and so i would tell them your dd is an amazing athlete. i would tellhem a little quick twhu te i h them repeating the story to their friends. because they wanted to be proud to havetheir dad as their back. they wanted that. and so i did mybest him and alole t m evheulr on ild h in' m wednesdays i wouldn't say that that's it -- i said if you are free on thursday, come by on thursday i did whatever i could to encourage the relationship and i did the best that iud >> how old are your kids?

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[inaudible conversations] i ssyible conveatio] s ipeta to enforce upon yourself. it gives you a greater instinct on how things are ong it i angtait it is an amazing tradition. going to church with appart every sunday. he gives them a likelihood to thve. okn w a sitting here all day long, working, finding something to put on the table and geing up the next day. that is why i wrote the