Category: Healthy Relationships
They Are Human Beings: Children Deserve Consent in Sex Education
There’s something deeply wrong in the way we talk about “sex education [...]
Discomfort Is Data: Rethinking How We Teach Sex Education to Children
Teaching consent means we must also practice it.Too often, when ch [...]
Lucy Diggs Slowe: Defender of Boundaried Spaces for Black Girls in Higher Education
Because safety has always been part of the curriculum—if we make it so [...]
And a Little Child Shall Lead Them” — What the Montgomery County Children Tried to Teach Us
We often say we care about children.We create programs, pass laws, bui [...]
Children Can Learn About People Without Being Taught About Sex
Let’s begin with a truth that seems to be getting lost in today’s deba [...]
A Timeline That Puts It All in Perspective: The History of Sex Education in U.S. Schools
To understand the heated debates around sex education today, it helps [...]
Representation Is Not a Justification for Adultification
Listen, there is nothing new under the sun.In my earlier caree [...]
The Children Tried to Tell Us: Reflections on the Supreme Court Decision and What It Should Teach Us
The fact that this even had to reach the Supreme Court should trouble [...]
Being a Safe Adult Is a Commitment—Not Just a Title
Too often, people call themselves “safe” because they mean well or l [...]
The Silent Epidemic: Why 1 in 7 Children Live with Domestic Violence
The Hidden Reality in Our Homes
We often think of childhood as a time [...]