Thank you so much, Chelsea. I couldn't agree with you more.
What we have, right now, is a real conundrum. We have all-time inflation and an all-time affordability crisis. Everybody needs money and investment, but, if we intervene at crisis too much, we're not actually going into prevention. At the same time, there are all these people in the middle of a crisis. It is a very challenging situation—trying to help everyone. I often think about it.
Visualize walking through a field. You're a soldier, and you can only save two people, yet you have to save everyone.
How do we do that? How do we make the best federal policy decisions to ensure we have healthy adults? That's why I think this particular study is so critical...when we look at housing and youth.
I have one question. I don't know who wants to answer it.
We know the mental health of the mother is critical. I don't know whether you are all familiar with what, I think, is the number one book, right now. My daughter wanted me to read it this weekend, and whenever my daughter tells me to read a book, I say, “Okay", because it's obviously important to her. It's called I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy. I don't know whether you are all familiar with this book. It's very powerful.
I guess my question is.... I look at you, Gabrielle. You talk about acknowledgement followed by action.
How do we prevent the removal of the mother, who is not intentionally parenting traumatically or harmfully, because it's generational trauma? How do we take care of the mother and offer resources so she, herself, can heal and, in essence, not repeat the patterns she learned?