The Power of Age-Appropriate Sex Ed. Immigration. Maternal Mental Health. Mother’s Day Actions in DC
On the Radio Show This Week
- We start out covering the importance of age-appropriate sex education and why it’s a fundamental plank of a healthy democracy
- After that, we dive into two new reports from CLASP that detail the harmful ripple effects of out-of-control immigration enforcement on the safety and development of our youngest children
- Following that segment, we recognize Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, discussing the prevalence of perinatal mood disorders and how to break the stigma
- Finally, we close the show with an update on MomsRising’s Mother’s Day advocacy events in Washington, D.C., where moms are bringing their "receipts" to the Hill to share how moms are experiencing an affordability crisis; and are demanding solutions for families
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Special Guests
Jaclyn Friedman, EducateUS, @educateusaction.bsky.social; Suma Setty, Senior Policy Analyst & Kaelin Rapport, Policy Analyst, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), @clasp_dc, @clasp.org; Jessie Colbert, Massachusetts Mind the Gap Coalition; Lauren Hipp, MomsRising, @MomsRising @MamasConPoder.
Key Highlights and Expert Quotes From This Episode
“Every authoritarian regime tries to undermine sexual and gender freedom, and sex education underlies that. They don't want us to know our bodies. They don't want us to know how to have what a healthy relationship feels like. They don't want us to have healthy communities and healthy conflict resolution skills because then we can stick together, and they want us divided.”
— Jaclyn Friedman, Founder and Executive Director, EducateUS
“Having mental clarity and physical well-being when they're cutting health care and attacking your conscious mind - that's the superpower. To run around sick and stressed out is to fall into the trap they've laid for you. You taking care of you is the best way to take care of us.”
— Jessie Colbert, Coordinator, Massachusetts Mind the Gap Coalition
“Stories is what people connects people into the data and to what is actually happening, right? There is an emotional connection and there's an opportunity to open that up, that experience up, um, to find relatability, to understand those bridges across experience. Because while we may have unique experiences, there is a connection across all of our stories in terms of what the public policy and what our government is or is not doing for us.”
— Lauren Hipp, National Director of Early Learning and WA State, MomsRising
“I would also say that it's really important to pass the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act, um, which is a bill that was introduced into Congress, which basically limits ICE enforcement in places that are important to community and child well-being. So places like schools, hospitals, um, daycare centers, playgrounds. These are places that it people shouldn't be afraid to take their children to the hospital. And we actually did hear many instances of that in our interviews and focus groups that they've been featured in the reports of parents double-guessing or, you know, just second-guessing whether they should take their sick child to the hospital. That should never be a choice that people have to make—whether to take their child to a hospital, make sure they get, um, adequate medical, um, care or potentially be separated from their child.”
— Suma Setty, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
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