She asked those in her audience to realize the importance of putting family first in their priorities, regardless of their work and lifestyle situation. She didn't say that mothers need to stay at home, nor fathers. She didn't say that we can't be fully developed as persons in our own right though we have children. What she did say was to make the family a most important priority. That means that, as employees, we should make this clear when we interview for a job.
Family comes first.
That means that, as employers, we should tell those persons we hire that we understand when children need extra attention, when they're sick, etc. Parenting, according to Barbara Bush, is an important job. And parenting indeed does need to be elevated to a level of supreme importance in our society. Somewhere between the early days of the Women's Movement and the selfishness of the 80s and 90s, we became lost. We became addicted to our jobs, our careers, our money and the toys that money could purchase.