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The National Sleep Foundation’s annual survey gave teenagers an ‘F’ grade for practicing healthy sleep behaviors, which is impacting their mental health.
Good sleep hygiene and mental health are inextricably linked, each one influencing the other. Bad sleep typically leads to depressive symptoms, and depression often contributes to bad sleep.
More than a third of teens have reported feeling depressed, and nearly three-quarters of them say that sleeping poorly worsened their mental health. At the same time, the vast majority of teens who slept well reported minimal to no depression symptoms.
John Lopos, CEO of the National Sleep Foundation, said that amid America’s current youth mental health crisis, ‘it’s important to put more evidence behind the strong connection with sleep, especially in our kids.’
Inform Your Representative about KOSA: Essential Child Protection Legislation is the Time
Please contact your representative in Congress to bring the Kids Online Safety Act to their attention. KOSA would establish protections for children from harmful algorithms and encourage safer online communications. With 65 cosponsors in the Senate, we are STILL advocating for its support as it may soon move to the House for consideration and debate!
Poor Things? Let’s dig in. You’ll see what I mean.
“…Media can take experiences that are relatively rare and uncommon and make them seem far more common than they are in reality. That can be dangerous, particularly if in so doing, these stories are inadvertently encouraging behavior that is genuinely evil.
Such appears to be the case with the Disney Searchlight film Poor Things, starring Emma Stone which has been nominated for 11 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actress, and will be streaming on Hulu starting March 7th, ahead of the Oscars.
Poor Things is a kind of Frankenstein tale about a pregnant young woman, Bella Baxter, who commits suicide by jumping into a river. A scientist-surgeon brings her back to life by putting the unborn, but still living, baby’s brain into Bella’s adult body, making her physically a full-grown woman, but mentally an infant.
Read more here.
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PASSED!!!! Washington is among a handful of states where there is no current age requirement to marry. Children of any age can be legally married with permission from a judge, and 17-year-olds only need parental permission.
However, a bill that aims to add a minimum age requirement of 18 is sitting on Gov. Jay Inslee’s desk and could be signed – SIGNED- as early as Thursday morning. It comes after the legislature broadly supported and passed the measure amid passionate testimony from survivors.
The Bill to End Child Marriage, HB 994, has PASSED in the Virginia Senate with overwhelming supportl. On to the Governor’s desk for final signature. Thank you for the early work and to all the nonprofit organizations and advocates who banded together, you are loved and appreciated. And to #survivors everywhere, this is a beacon of hope for future generations — thank you for your faith and hearts!
Learn more here from our colleagues at Unchained At Last.
“National Women’s History Month was established by a presidential proclamation to draw attention to and improve the focus on women in historical studies. It began in New York City on March 8, 1857, when female textile workers marched in protest of unfair working conditions and unequal rights for women. It was one of the first organized strikes by working women, during which they called for a shorter work day and decent wages. Also on March 8, 1908, women workers in the needle trades marched through New York City’s Lower East Side to protest child labor and sweatshop working conditions, and demand women’s suffrage. Beginning in 1910, March 8 became annually observed as International Women’s Day. Women’s History Week was instituted in 1978 to begin adding women’s history into educational curricula. In 1987, the National Women’s History Project successfully petitioned Congress to include all of March as a celebration of the economic, political, and social contributions of women.”
The Biden administration is overseeing an “alarming” rise in exploitative child labor nationwide — a trend spurred by the ongoing migrant crisis at the southern border, according to Sen. Bill Cassidy.
In a pair of letters to officials at the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services (HHS), Cassidy (R-La.) pointed to reports of an 88% uptick in illegal child labor since 2019, including in “dangerous jobs” such as meat processing.
Federal watchdogs have also disclosed that the Biden administration “weakened” officials’ “ability to vet sponsors” who receive migrant children in the US and “protect” those children “from risks such as trafficking,” he noted.
Now the lawmaker is demanding answers from the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division and HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement about how the agencies plan to protect unaccompanied children from exploitation.
