IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1484 
Recognizing the importance of evidence-based parenting and caregiving 
education in elementary and secondary schools. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024 
Mrs. RAMIREZ (for herself, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. CARSON, Ms. 
GARCIA of Texas, and Mr. DOGGETT) submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the importance of evidence-based parenting and 
caregiving education in elementary and secondary schools. 
Whereas evidence-based parenting and caregiving education 
in schools provides students critical information and tools 
that can empower them to be agents of change that can 
result in positive social, emotional, and economic out-
comes; 
Whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ac-
knowledges that parenting takes many different forms 
and that there are positive parenting practices that work 
well across diverse families and in diverse settings, in-
cluding responding to children in a predictable way, 
showing warmth and sensitivity, having routines and 
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household rules, supporting health and safety, and using 
appropriate discipline without harshness; 
Whereas studies have shown that parenting and caregiving 
programs created to promote healthy cognitive, emo-
tional, and social development can improve the prospects 
and quality of life for children; 
Whereas parenting and caregiving programs can provide crit-
ical information on child development and safety, pro-
mote positive parenting and caregiving behaviors, teach 
effective discipline strategies, and reduce levels of child 
abuse and neglect; 
Whereas adaptive behaviors are defined by the American Psy-
chological Association as the level of everyday perform-
ance of tasks that is required for a person to fulfill typ-
ical roles in society, including maintaining independence 
and meeting cultural expectations regarding personal and 
social responsibility; 
Whereas positive parenting and caregiving practices are di-
rectly linked to adaptive behaviors in children and can 
help avert adverse outcomes, especially among at-risk 
children; 
Whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
states that many factors can increase or decrease the 
likelihood of someone experiencing and perpetrating vio-
lence and defines risk factors as characteristics that may 
increase the likelihood of experiencing or perpetrating 
child abuse and neglect; 
Whereas positive parenting and caregiving education can in-
form and make families aware of strategies and tools to 
prevent child mistreatment, which can interrupt healthy 
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development in children and lead to maladaptive func-
tioning; 
Whereas research has shown that the damaging consequences 
of abuse and neglect can reshape a child’s brain, result-
ing in consequences that last throughout their life, influ-
ence the child’s amygdala, which regulates emotions, par-
ticularly fear and anxiety, and change the functioning of 
the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for thinking, 
planning, reasoning, and decision making, which can all 
lead to behavioral and academic problems; 
Whereas, according to the World Health Organization, child 
maltreatment can cause severe short- and long-term 
physical, sexual, and mental health consequences, includ-
ing head injuries and severe disability, post-traumatic 
stress, anxiety, depression, and sexually transmitted in-
fections, which can contribute to social problems includ-
ing substance abuse, perpetrating or being a victim of vi-
olence, smoking, obesity, and unintended pregnancy; 
Whereas research has shown that the adverse effects of abuse 
and neglect on a child’s brain and behavioral development 
are not static and can be reversed with intervention and 
positive changes in a child’s environment that take place 
when the abuse ends and after the child is given the sup-
port they require; 
Whereas, according to a recent study through the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, the total national eco-
nomic burden associated with child abuse and neglect 
from 
Federal 
fiscal 
year 
2018 
is 
approximately 
$563,000,000,000; 
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