On night two of the second Democratic presidential debates, Gillibrand cites an article that Biden wrote in 1981 criticizing a bill offering high-income families tax credits for day care. She quotes a line from the article to claim that Biden had argued that mothers working outside the house could lead to “deterioration of the family.” Biden denies that was his view and cites his own experience raising his sons as “a single father” after the death of his first wife. Gillibrand continues to push him to answer for the article, but Biden chooses to remind her of her support for him in previous political contests. Gillibrand’s attack, which was scrutinized by fact-checkers, is in line with her attempts to center gender equality and woman-centered policy issues in her presidential campaign.