I knew when I read the story’s title that I would find the missing information somewhere in the story and was not surprised when I found it halfway through the story.  Poor Heather Peele, who is struggling with child care for her daughter while she works, is a single mother.  That was the missing information.  I do not know Peele’s personal situation, but I have read enough stories like this to tell me her problem is self-inflicted, so I put back into my eyes the tears I initially shed.  Instead of Senator Murray and others like her working on legislation to increase access to affordable child care, they should be working on programs to prevent Heather Peele and others like her from having kids they can’t afford.