Author: unitedfamilies

2 Good Things in ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

The House of Representatives completed an overnight session on May 22 with a vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It passed by one very small margin—215-to-214.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., immediately condemned it—and expressed anger that it would restrict federal funding of abortion. “A few hours ago, while most Americans were fast asleep, House Republicans rammed through their so-called Big, Beautiful Bill through the House of Representatives, in the dead of night, in the hopes that nobody would notice,” he said on the Senate floor.

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Planned Parenthood Used Tax Dollars to Train Teachers to Push Trans Agenda on Kids

America’s eighth-largest school district handed taxpayer cash to Planned Parenthood to train teachers that biological sex is a “myth,” according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Philadelphia School District (PSD), which oversees almost 200,000 students, paid Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania (PPSP) nearly $40,000 in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HIV grant funds to provide up to 70 trainings which decry biological sex as a “myth,” support medical child sex-changes and normalize men in women’s sports, according to documents obtained by the DCNF through a public records request. Planned Parenthood delivered Comprehensive Sexual Education to more than 1.3 million participants during the 2023-2024 fiscal year, according to its latest annual report, dubbing itself as America’s “largest” sex education provider.

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YMCA Scrubs Transgender Guidance After Parent Group Raises Alarm

The YMCA scrubbed guidance from its website saying that its campers should have access to bathrooms and cabins based on their gender identities after a campaign from a conservative parent group warned about the organization’s transgender policies. On Wednesday, The Daily Wire exclusively reported that American Parents Coalition had warned its followers that YMCA camps across the country allow boys who identify as girls into female facilities. By Friday, the YMCA had either scrubbed or restricted access to much of the content on its website related to gender ideology and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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How to Pull Two Levers in Supporting Incarcerated Dads’ Mental Health

As I’ve mentioned more than once in this blog, there’s an opportunity for human service organizations to support incarcerated dads. Corrections and corrections-related systems and facilities are facing a massive shortage of personnel, some of whom run rehabilitative programs. I was reminded of this opportunity when I ran across a recent meta-analysis of 32 studies on the impact of prisoners’ social connections on mental health—specifically anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The studies had a combined sample size of 10,613. Given that men constitute the majority of the prison population, and a substantial proportion of these men are dads, this research provides valuable insights relevant to incarcerated dads.

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