She never married and doesn't have children! How can She be a good Governor?

Hi Sarah, For many countries these voting trends do vary. Like, in India, many people are more inclined to vote to a party and the candidate is not of much Importance. From the points mentioned above, Indian politics has no such reservations on whether the candidate is married or a bachelor (We have had a Prime Minister and the President) who were both UnMarried and personally I feel they were the best we had in recent times. Now, the other aspect - We never become parents from our birth. This means that we never know what it actually takes to become parents but the day we have a child, we become parents - My point - no need of extra training to become better parents. It is inborn quality and is realized the day we become parents. Same here, in this case. It is just about realization and then getting to work on that realization for the betterment of the society and nation or state. Regards, theSids.

I never vote for anybody who has children or is in any kind of a relationship or has pets or hobbies. How can they possibly do justice to such a serious job if they spend any of their time on outside interests? Oops. Forgot to say sarcasm alert. Seriously, the only reason their family life, or their personal life would affect how I vote is if it contradicted their professed values (ie a guy running on a "family values" platform who is having an affair) or if it were something illegal or seriously immoral.

You don't have to be married to be a good governor. you don't need children to be one either. you only have to know what people need and how best to get it for them to be a good governor.

First I would disagree that it's equal now, since really it's stupid demanding people to be married or have kids to get elected into office. It really doesn't matter about your personal life choices unless they are choices that are illegal as far as I'm concerned. A candidate's family only influences how I vote when said family does irresponsible or stupid things and the candidate goes on about how those ideas or actions shouldn't be done by others but be hypocrites that it's in their family (Palin is guilty of this), or that the candidate is obviously forcing their family out there just for the press.

Hey, I think you're forgetting something. Even if she doesn't have a family of her own, it doesn't mean she doesn't grow in one. Family values isn't learned by having a family on your own, what you believe about family values is learned inside the family of your own. and points of views are also learned here. With this said, yes, family background does influence me personally. If a person (politician) does comes with a very disturbing family background (like for example, all family members are politicians and got cases of corruptions) then this person (even if he is a good person) the doings of his family would over shadowed everything. People might think that if that person is sitted his family would take advantage of the power. and gosh.. it does happens.. Former Philippine president Gloria Arroyo, I want to believe that she means good deed to his fellow filipino but her family (sons and husband) all sucks!

Hi, Different countries maybe differ on each government.Ia m from philippines and our president is a single man and i dont think that its the issue here.As long as the politician wether a man or a woman does not matter if married or not what is important is that they are doing all their respective duties to serve for their country and fellowman.MARIED OR NOT IS AN ISSUE HERE IN OUR COUNTRY.

It doesn't matter to me one bit whether or not a candidate is married or has children. That's really pathetic that anyone would judge someone in that way. It would be just as wrong if someone used the fact this other woman has 6 children and therefore wouldn't have the time to serve against her. Annie

Not in the least...I look over what they do..stand for....not that any of it makes any difference but if you have one that at least tries to make changes that better then someone who doesn't show up or has a poor record while in congress or in the business world.

The more I think about it, the more I think that it shouldn't make a difference. If there's a difference, I think it should make the candidate without children to be able to focus more on the job at hand. Raising children would one less stress on the mind of that elected official. It's funny how we take such a thing as 'family values' and use it incorrectly, just because it's been accepted in the field, such as in politics.