and moynihan, senator dan all patrickman moynihan of number, spoke about the dysfunctional family during his tenure at the nixon administration, and he was roundly -- you economy, insulted for it, and it's gotten worse. it's gotten much worse since the late 60ss and i think that's the problem is the family, the difference funkal family. the -- the dysfunctional family the mother with no man around and five kids. >> host: david, leave it on those two points. thank you very much. bernadine dohrn, his second point was about the family, and your center at northwestern is called? >> guest: children and family justice. yes. children need families, and they need families that are strong and sustained and consistent and where the adults have a life of both work and art and intellectual challenge that is good. i don't think every family need as man but every family needs more than one person. you need a team of people, obviously to raise a single child, and you need a massive effort to invest in our common future, our children. i think one of the things that has kept us paralyzed in the last 30 y

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district was enthusiastically supported by both new york senators, democratic senator daniel patrick moynihan and republican senator dick motta. now if you watch tv or read newspapers or blogs to know that judge sotomayor has been called names as always happens in these supreme court nomination processes. she has been called names by talking heads on tv and radio and in most cases these commentators may have read the case or two others or even read a speech and took a sentence or so out of context and have decided that they are entitled to make a sweeping judgment about her judicial litmus based on a few words have been taken out of context. i think just about everything in the nominee's professional record is fair game to consider. after all we are obligated to determine whether to confirm someone to in incredibly important position with lifetime tenure. that is a constitutional duty that i take very seriously. with but that said, when people get upset about a few items in a few speeches that a judge has given i have to wonder, do a few statements that someone has made in public for which th