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Overview / Children

Project 2025 Has Many Policies That Negatively Impact Children.

Almost all of the policies in Project 2025's has an impact on American children. These policies represent significant changes that would affect many aspects of children's lives, including their education, health are, family situations, and daily life. Overall, Project 2025 aims to cut funding from many areas of government that currently support children and families.

Almost all of the policies in Project 2025's has an impact on American children. These policies represent significant changes that would affect many aspects of children's lives, including their education, health are, family situations, and daily life. Overall, Project 2025 aims to cut funding from many areas of government that currently support children and families.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

  1. Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP): CHIP is health insurance for families that covers check-ups, immunizations, doctor visits, prescriptions, dental and vision care, inpatient and outpatient hospital care, laboratory and X-ray services, and emergency services. This coverage ensures that children receive necessary medical care, but Project 2025 plans to cut funding to this program, which means fewer children have access to healthcare services.


  2. Head Start: Head Start is an early childhood education program for low-income preschool children that prepares them for kindergarten. Project 2025 plans to cut federal funding for these programs and let each state determine funding, plans, curriculum, and program standards. That means no consistent standards or funding for America's children.


  3. Food stamps (SNAP): Project 2025 will make it harder for people to qualify for SNAP, which means fewer low-income families and children will be eligible for food assistance. SNAP currently helps more than 41 million Americans per month afford food and necessities, but Project 2025 thinks they aren't worth helping.


  4. Foster care and adoption: Project 2025 mentions speeding up permanent placements for foster children, with the goal of reducing the time children spend in the foster care system before being placed in permanent homes. However, there are no specific details on how they would accomplish this. There's no mention of how this might impact the screening or evaluation of potential adoptive or foster families or the long-term effects on children's wellbeing from faster placements. There's also no details on how this proposal would balance speed with ensuring safe, suitable homes for children.


  5. Opioid crisis: Project 2025 recognizes the opioid crisis as an issue affecting families and children, but it doesn't provide a comprehensive plan for addressing it. The focus instead is on "prevention and treatment," but without specific policy proposals or funding commitments.

  1. Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP): CHIP is health insurance for families that covers check-ups, immunizations, doctor visits, prescriptions, dental and vision care, inpatient and outpatient hospital care, laboratory and X-ray services, and emergency services. This coverage ensures that children receive necessary medical care, but Project 2025 plans to cut funding to this program, which means fewer children have access to healthcare services.


  2. Head Start: Head Start is an early childhood education program for low-income preschool children that prepares them for kindergarten. Project 2025 plans to cut federal funding for these programs and let each state determine funding, plans, curriculum, and program standards. That means no consistent standards or funding for America's children.


  3. Food stamps (SNAP): Project 2025 will make it harder for people to qualify for SNAP, which means fewer low-income families and children will be eligible for food assistance. SNAP currently helps more than 41 million Americans per month afford food and necessities, but Project 2025 thinks they aren't worth helping.


  4. Foster care and adoption: Project 2025 mentions speeding up permanent placements for foster children, with the goal of reducing the time children spend in the foster care system before being placed in permanent homes. However, there are no specific details on how they would accomplish this. There's no mention of how this might impact the screening or evaluation of potential adoptive or foster families or the long-term effects on children's wellbeing from faster placements. There's also no details on how this proposal would balance speed with ensuring safe, suitable homes for children.


  5. Opioid crisis: Project 2025 recognizes the opioid crisis as an issue affecting families and children, but it doesn't provide a comprehensive plan for addressing it. The focus instead is on "prevention and treatment," but without specific policy proposals or funding commitments.

Department of Education

  1. School choice: Project 2025 will take federal funds away from public schools and give it to private or charter schools. This would impact the quality of education for public school kids, increase segregation between lower income and higher income families, and challenges for children with special needs who rely on federal funding for their schooling and services.


  2. Homeschooling: Project 2025 will allow any parents to take their children out of school and instead teach them at home. It does not present any guidelines, requirements, standards, or other policies that home school must abide by. Lack of standardized education would lead to gaps in knowledge or skills for some homeschooled children, reduced socialization that would affect their social development, and the risk that children would not receive adequate education if parents are unprepared or neglectful. This could also make it harder to identify cases of educational neglect or abuse. As these children age, they would have a more difficult time transitioning to higher education or the workforce due to their lack of standardized credentials.


  3. School curricula: Project 2025 would make it illegal to teach about critical race theory (Black History) and gender identity, limiting students' exposure to diverse perspectives on race, gender, and social issues. Without education on these important topics, students are denied the ability to understand different perspectives and the complexities of race and gender issues in society. Students who identify with or are affected by these issues will feel that their experiences and identities are being invalidated or erased from the educational narrative. Lack of education on these topics would perpetuate stereotypes and biases, leading to increased discrimination and bullying.


  4. Student loans: Project 2025 would cut federal funding for student loans, making it harder for students, particularly those from low-income families, to obtain loans for college, and limiting their access to higher education. Families would face greater financial burdens, leading to increased debt, higher interest rates on private loans, and more risk on taking on loans all together. Without access to affordable loans, some students might forgo higher education altogether.


  5. Title IX: Project 2025 positions this policy as a way to "protect womens' sports" by ensuring biological females compete only against other biological females in school sports. This policy is meant to exclude transgender students and athletes from participating in sports aligned with their gender identity. These policies will lead to isolation, discrimination, bullying, violence, and mental health issues. Transgender students, or students who do not identify with their gender assigned at birth, may decide to forego participation altogether. Implementing such policies will lead to legal challenges and ethical debates about the rights of transgender students, creating a contentious environment in schools.

Department of Justice

  1. Juvenile justice: Focus more on rehabilitation for young offenders, which could change how children in trouble with the law are treated.


  2. Child trafficking: Increase efforts to stop child exploitation, potentially protecting more children from abuse.

Department of Homeland Security

  1. Immigration: Change policies affecting immigrant children, including those who come to the U.S. alone.

Department of Labor

  1. Childhood poverty: Try to reduce poverty by helping parents find jobs, which could improve some children's living conditions.

Other Agencies

  1. Gender-related healthcare: Ban gender reassignment procedures for anyone under 18, affecting transgender youth.


  2. Technology addiction: Take action against tech companies that make addictive products for children, potentially reducing screen time.