Category: Safety
Child Abuse Is Not a Team Sport
And we’re not playing sides when kids are the ones getting hurt.
Le [...]
Discomfort Is Data: Rethinking How We Teach Sex Education to Children
Teaching consent means we must also practice it.Too often, when ch [...]
When Safety Fails: The Crisis of Campus Sexual Violence
Too many students pack their dreams into suitcases, head off to coll [...]
Before We Go Deeper, Can Our Children Read the Page?
There’s a Reason Enslaved People Were Forbidden to Read.
Literacy is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Let’s Take a Breath: Why Sex Education Is Not Like Math or History
There are some who are genuinely wondering:“Why can parents opt [...]
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 [...]