Parenting, Policies and Laws, and the Social Determinants of Health

Here’s a thought.

Kids who experience parenting behaviors and practices generally recognized as supporting the healthy development of children often grow into kind, responsible, hardworking, ethical adults who don’t behave in ways that harm themselves and others.

Over the years Congress created policies and laws that are detrimental to public health.  Now we are faced with the monumental task of changing those policies and laws.  If Congress had been made up of people who had experienced parenting behaviors and practices generally recognized as supporting the healthy development of children would they have created those harmful policies and laws in the first place?

I wonder.

This sure makes me think about the preeminent importance of parenting education.