National Child Abuse Prevention Month, 2025
President Donald J. Trump's proclamation designates April 2025 as National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
The proclamation stresses the importance of protecting children, condemning child abuse and neglect, and emphasizing the role of strong families.
It also explicitly denounces what it characterizes as harmful gender ideology impacting children's well-being.
The President calls on all Americans to support efforts promoting children's safety and development.
Arguments For
Protecting Children: The proclamation emphasizes the importance of protecting children from abuse and neglect, a widely accepted societal value.
Strengthening Families: It highlights the role of strong families in preventing child abuse, promoting family unity and parental responsibility.
Swift Justice for Abusers: The proclamation commits to bringing perpetrators to justice, emphasizing accountability and deterring future abuse.
Combating Harmful Ideologies: The proclamation expresses opposition to what it terms the harmful influence of gender ideology on children, aiming to protect children from potentially confusing or harmful influences.
Public Awareness: Designating a national month raises public awareness about child abuse prevention, encouraging individuals and organizations to take action.
Arguments Against
Broad Definition of Child Abuse: The inclusion of “gender ideology” as a form of child abuse is a controversial assertion and lacks widespread scientific consensus. This may alienate some readers and harm relationships between the government and certain communities.
Lack of Specific Actionable Steps: The proclamation calls for action but lacks specific, actionable steps for individuals or organizations to follow to prevent child abuse.
Potential for Misinterpretation and Misuse: The condemnation of specific ideologies could be misinterpreted and misused to justify discriminatory practices or limit access to healthcare services.
Limited Impact on Systemic Issues: The proclamation primarily focuses on symbolic action and may not address the root causes of child abuse, such as poverty, social inequality, or lack of access to crucial resources.
Potential for Politicization: The proclamation's tone and content are likely to be politicized, creating division rather than unity around the issue of child abuse prevention.
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
America’s children are the foundation of our families, the heirs of our freedom, and the stewards of our national promise. This National Child Abuse Prevention Month, we commit to empowering every child in America to lead a fulfilling life of dignity and love — and we pledge to bring every abuser, predator, and evildoer who threatens the health and safety of our children to swift justice.
As citizens, each of us is entrusted with the sacred responsibility of caring for the most vulnerable among us, especially children uniquely at risk of trauma and abuse. My Administration recognizes that the most powerful safeguard against child abuse is a stable family with loving parents, and that there is no substitute for a strong mother and father. For this reason, I am working every day to fortify our families and embolden our Nation’s children to live their lives full of happiness, health, and success that they so dearly deserve. I call on every American to take steps to prevent child abuse and neglect before it occurs. By doing so, we can reduce the risk of depression, suicide, substance abuse, and developmental challenges in our youth.
Sadly, one of the most prevalent forms of child abuse facing our country today is the sinister threat of gender ideology. Proponents of the gender ideology movement are outrageously indoctrinating our children with the devastating lie that they are trapped in the wrong body — and that the only way they can be truly happy is to alter their sex with hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and sexual mutilation surgery. The evil and backwards lies of gender insanity are robbing our children of their happiness, health, and freedom, while imposing unimaginable heartbreak on parents and families. As I stated during my Joint Address to the Congress last month, my message to every American child is simple: you are perfect exactly the way God made you.
As President, I proudly signed Executive Order 14187 prohibiting public schools from indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology, while also taking action to cut off all taxpayer funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation of our youth. To further protect our children, I have taken historic action to secure our southern border and end child trafficking — and am working diligently to make our young people healthy again.
This National Child Abuse Prevention Month, we pledge to stop the atrocity of child abuse in all its forms. We affirm that every perpetrator who inflicts violence on our children will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Above all, we vow to give our children the tools they need to fully embrace God’s gift of life, and to carry that radiant torch of American Liberty generations into the future.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 2025 as National Child Abuse Prevention Month. I call upon all Americans to invest in the lives of our Nation’s children, to be aware of their safety and well-being, and to support efforts that promote their psychological, physical, and emotional development.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.
The proclamation declares April 2025 as National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
It emphasizes the importance of protecting children and preventing abuse.
The text highlights the role of strong families and commits to bringing abusers to justice. The proclamation also condemns what it describes as the harmful effects of 'gender ideology'.
The President calls on Americans to support measures aimed at children's well-being and development.
DONALD J. TRUMP
This section simply shows the President's signature on the proclamation.
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