Jay Inslee on Families & Children

	Jay Inslee on Families & Children Democratic WA Governor; Former Rep/ (WA-1); withdrew from Presidential primary Aug. 2019

Allow youth in shelters to seek gender therapy & abortions

SB 5599 : Supporting youth and young adults seeking protected health care services.

Chrisitan Broadcasting Network analysis (05-09-2023): Opponents said it elevates state authority over parental rights, allowing minors to pursue medical gender-changing interventions and abortions without parents' consent. State Sen. Marko Liias, the bill's sponsor, told KOMO News, the measure protects transgender and at-risk youth by removing barriers to safe shelter. The shelters would not be required to report to parents if teenagers were seeking gender-changing hormone therapies or abortions.

Legislative outcome: Passed House 57-39-2 on Apr/12/23; passed Senate 29-20-0 on Apr/19/23; signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on May/9/23.

Source: CBN.com on Washington State voting records SB 5599 , May 9, 2023

Increase number of mental health workers for youth

My budget will increase the number of school counselors, nurses, psychologists and social workers available to serve K-12 students. Anyone who works with kids will tell you these services are needed now more than ever. Young people in foster care and their families have also been uniquely impacted by the pandemic. My budget offers $80 million to pay providers more for housing and support foster youth with complex needs; and help young people transition out of foster care or juvenile justice. Source: 2022 State of the State Address to Washington legislature , Jan 11, 2022

Sex-ed in elementary school thru 12th grade

A controversial bill requiring comprehensive sex education for students in kindergarten through 12th grade was signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee. The bill passed both houses of the state Legislature earlier this month despite a concerted effort by Republicans to derail it. It will take effect in the 2021-22 school year for grades six through 12, and in the following years for all grades.

The bill's sponsor said the new law will improve safety for children across the state. "This is about making sure younger children know what kind of touching is inappropriate, whether by peers or predators," she said.

But the bill's opponents say the curriculum is too explicit. Several of the bill's opponents say sex education should be restricted to grades seven through 12.

Supporters of the bill say no student will be required to participate in any of the sex education classes, with the bill providing families the ability to opt their children out.

Source: KOMO-FM on Washington legislative voting record S.5395 , Mar 27, 2020

Expand early education with 'birth to 3' preschool program

For anyone who cares about equity in education, early learning is the best way to secure a strong start for every child, regardless of their family's economic circumstances. In the past six years we've nearly doubled the number of children in early learning programs to more than 15,000. My budget builds on that to expand preschool with a new 'birth to 3' preschool program. And it would create a statewide referral system to connect families with early learning services and facilities. Source: 2019 State of the State address to Washington legislature , Jan 15, 2019

Give parents tools to balance work and family.

Inslee adopted the manifesto, "A New Agenda for the New Decade":

Strengthen America’s Families
While the steady reduction in the number of two-parent families of the last 40 years has slowed, more than one-third of our children still live in one- or no-parent families. There is a high correlation between a childhood spent with inadequate parental support and an adulthood spent in poverty or in prison.

To strengthen families, we must redouble efforts to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, make work pay, eliminate tax policies that inadvertently penalize marriage, and require absent fathers to pay child support while offering them new opportunities to find work. Because every child needs the attention of at least one caring and competent adult, we should create an “extended family” of adult volunteer mentors.

Family breakdown is not the only challenge we face. As two-worker families have become the norm, harried parents have less time to spend on their most important job: raising their children. Moreover, parents and schools often find themselves contending with sex- and violence-saturated messages coming from an all-pervasive mass entertainment media.

We should continue public efforts to give parents tools to balance work and family and shield their children from harmful outside influences. For example, we should encourage employers to adopt family-friendly policies and practices such as parental leave, flex-time, and telecommuting. Public officials should speak out about violence in our culture and should press the entertainment media to adopt self-policing codes aimed at protecting children.

Goals for 2010

Cut the rate of out-of-wedlock births in half.
Recruit a million mentors for disadvantaged children without two parents.
Provide affordable after-school programs at every public school.
Make every workplace “family-friendly.”
Promote policies that help parents shield their children from violence and sex in entertainment products.

Source: The Hyde Park Declaration 00-DLC4 on Aug 1, 2000

Rated 15% by the Christian Coalition: an anti-Family-Value voting record.

Inslee scores 15% by the Christian Coalition on family issues

The Christian Coalition was founded in 1989 by Dr. Pat Robertson to give Christians a voice in government. We represent millions of people of faith and enable them to have a strong, unified voice in the conversation we call democracy.

Represent the pro-family point of view before local councils, school boards, state legislatures, and Congress
Speak out in the public arena and in the media
Train leaders for effective social and political action
Inform pro-family voters about timely issues and legislation
Protest anti-Christian bigotry and defend the rights of people of faith.

Our ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization`s preferred position. Source: CC website 03n-CC on Dec 31, 2003

Sex Ed including both abstinence and contraception.

Inslee signed H.R.1551&S.611

Authorizes grants to states for sex education programs, including education on abstinence and contraception, to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Expresses the sense of Congress that states are encouraged, although not required, to provide matching funds to receive such grants.

Requires the Secretary to provide for a national evaluation of a representative sample of such programs for effectiveness in delaying the initiation of sexual intercourse and other high-risk behaviors, preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease, and increasing contraceptive knowledge and behavior. Requires states receiving such grants to provide for an individual evaluation of the state`s program by an external, independent entity.

Source: Responsible Education About Life Act 09-HR1551 on Mar 17, 2009

TV shows should have explicit viewer advisories.

Inslee co-sponsored bill that TV shows should have explicit viewer advisories

Declares that each of the four major television broadcast networks and their affiliates, independent television stations, the Public Broadcasting System, and cable programmers and operators should:

not telecast programming containing dramatized violence;
superimpose explicit viewer advisories throughout programming containing dramatized or documentary violence;
provide explicit audio and on-screen viewer advisories immediately prior to transmittal of such programming;
not transmit programming promotions or advertisements that contain violence;
develop a standard scheme for classifying programming on the basis of the amount and type of dramatized violence it contains; and
educate and inform viewers about the harmful effects of exposure to television violence.

Source: H.RES.202/S.RES.122 93-SR122 on Jun 18, 1993

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