The first Congressional Dads Caucus is set to be announced Thursday at a news conference on Capitol Hill. The caucus, its members say, will advocate for policies and legislation to help support American working families.
The members of the caucus each bring their own personal experiences to the group’s work, they say. For Castro, his decade in Congress has spanned the births of all three of his children; he has grappled with the logistics of paid family leave and dealt with the harrowing uncertainty of the baby formula shortage.“A lot of the policies we’ve debated during these 10 years, I’ve lived them firsthand,” he says.
“I’m very proud that I was a stay-at-home dad, and I’m very proud that I fought hard to take parental leave even though we didn’t have paid parental leave at that time,” he says. “I’m proud I fought hard to make that available for federal employees. Those are the kinds of steps that I hope to bring to this conversation.” The caucus, he says, “is more than a dads club — I think this can be really substantive.
Mothers in Congress have historically taken the lead on these sorts of issues. When the Moms in the House caucus formed four years ago, Jennifer Lawless, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, told The Post that she appreciated the group’s intent to advance family-focused policies and support working moms in Congress, but she also felt the existence of a mothers-only group reinforced the idea that these issues and challenges belong to mothers alone.
Gomez agrees about the necessity of working together, he said, and expects that the two caucuses will do that when it comes to legislative and policy efforts. But he also thinks it’s worthwhile to maintain two distinct groups.“There are issues that men can never assume to fully understand,” he says. “There are lived experiences of mothers, when it comes to carrying a child, birthing a child, the postpartum experience, the fourth trimester.
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