Sen. Merika Coleman, D-Pleasant Grove, listens to debate in the Alabama Senate on a bill to extend immunity to in vitro fertilization programs on Feb. 29, 2024 at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama. Coleman had young children when she was first elected to the Legislature in 2002; a new report says Alabama is the only state without women with school-age children serving as legislators. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector)
Alabama is the only state whose Legislature has no mothers of school-age children, according to a new report.
The New York-based Vote Mama Foundation said in the report that as of February, 7.9% percent of lawmakers were mothers of minors. Alabama is the only state to lack any legislators who are mothers of young children or teenagers.
But Sarah Hague, chief program officer for the foundation, said that the current numbers reflected a nearly 50% increase in representation of moms of minors over 2022.
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