Claim: "When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote  an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, 'create the deterioration of family.' He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, 'avoiding responsibility.
Fact-check: Fact-checking the Joe Biden, Kirsten Gillibrand debate spat
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Amy Sherman
Date published: 2019-08-02T00:00:00