More importantly, he has helped me understand that the Right and the Left agree on a lot more than I thought they did. We spoke about paid leave, child care, income equality, abortion, and how the Right and Left’s approaches to family policy have converged and diverged. Overall, I think family policy is an arena in which there is tremendous capacity for more bipartisan dialogue and, hopefully, ultimately, action. ES: Any big trends you have noticed on the Left or Right when it comes to how we are talking about family matters? PTB: For a long time, conversations around family policy on the Right tended to center on more cultural things.