My Mother — Margaret Charlap (Cohen) Rubin — "Peggy Rubin" — was a graduate of Wellesley College who — after having three children — earned her MSW Degree at the School of Social Work of the University of Maryland.
Peggy Rubin then worked full-time as a Policy Analyst for the PA Department of Welfare, commuting to Harrisburg each day. Her focus was on eradicating abusive treatment of mentally ill patients in state hospitals and implementing "patients rights" hearings that enabled mentally ill people to testify on their own behalf.
Peggy then did policy and civil rights work for the PA Developmental Disabilities Council.
In national, state, and local political elections — Peggy Rubin — was one of the leading Democratic Party Organizers in Central Pennsylvania.
My Mother is a Liberal Democrat — from A to Z: "Liberal Democrat" is probably how she would identify herself first — before anything else.
She is adamently pro-choice and served as Executive Director of Planned Parenthood of York, PA as well as Chairperson of the Central PA Planned Parenthood Board of Directors.
As a child, teen, and college student, I was as liberal as my Mother and the rest of my family.
However — during the past twenty years — while on some domestic issues I remain politically liberal — I have moved toward the Center overall — and I plan to register as "Independent" going forward.
My parents — and I — are squeaky clean — American Citizens. While my parents were liberal Democrats — they were also personally conservative — always ethical — and always self-disciplined in their lifestyle — and so am I.
We do not respect cheating, corruption, or personally abusive behavior — by anyone.
Additionally — due to childhood traumas — I do not like to be around wild scenes.
Years of ballet — from early childhood to puberty — also hard-wired me to be self-disciplined.
My Mother, Peggy, was faithfully married to my Dad — from the day of their marriage on June 15th, 1958 — to the day of his unexpected, wrongful death, on March 18th, 2018 — when an unknown nurse told my mother that she could go rest and leave my Dad alone with her — and my Dad died minutes later.
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My Mother now lives in Washington D.C. She has metastatic breast cancer — which returned in 2020 — after she had been cancer-free for over 15 years.
