To the editor:

Through all of Hillary Clinton’s difficulties and criticisms she has picked herself up, dusted herself off, persevered, and forged ahead even stronger.

She realizes that expectations of her are high since she’s a woman. Her Methodist background reminds her to “Do all you can by all means you can, and in all ways you can.”

For 50 years she has worked tirelessly to make lives better for children and their families. Examples of some of her work are: her Yale post graduate study led to her article “Children Under the Law,” and on the board of Arkansas Children’s Hospital she helped create the first advanced neonatal clinic in the state. She served on the board of the Children’s Defense Fund. As First Lady she worked with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch to help create CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) for 8 million American children.

As President of the United States, Hillary, along with her other countless endeavors, will continue her quest for children with, for example, family and medical leave, affordable child care, increase in pay for child-care workers, universal Pre-K, improving K-12 education, instigating her college plan that would decrease student debts and stopping the path from school to prison. (hillaryclinton.com and hillaryclinton.org)

Many children get lost in the shuffle in this fast paced, materialistic and sometimes mean world. Children should be our first concern.

Thank you, Hillary, for being a model and advocate for children.

HELEN HOOVER

Kingston