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Under H.B. 6454, prescribing puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones would be treated as a more severe form of child abuse than starving or abandoning a kid.
"This is inhumane," one child told state inspectors.
When it comes to gender identity issues, some conservatives make a mockery of liberty and parental rights.
You're more likely to be struck by a meteor than to have your kid abducted by a stranger.
A Tucson mother who briefly left two kids alone while she ran an errand won a temporary reprieve in court.
Former Judges Mark A. Ciavarella and Michael T. Conahan are now serving lengthy prison sentences for what became known as the "kids-for-cash" scandal.
Sarra's name was added to the government's official list of unfit caretakers after she briefly ran an errand without her kids in tow.
The mayor promised to reopen city playgrounds, but more of them are currently closed than before he took office.
A kid roaming the streets on his own is like an endangered species: once common, now rare, and worth trying to bring back.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis thinks drag shows represent "child endangerment."
Presidents once treated congressional authorization as a requirement for the U.S. to enter conflicts. What went wrong?
Many parents are on the child abuse and neglect registry, and they don't even know it.
"I really think I'm allowed to stay here," I explained, in vain.
"The suspect then intervened, deployed pepper spray and sprayed the victim, before fleeing the scene on foot," according to the police.
In Japan, even very young children are seen as capable.
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"We certainly don't want parents getting in trouble because their kids were playing on the playground," says Gov. Jared Polis
"There are no known stories of any abductions here," says Anna Hershberger.
The broken foster system for Native American kids is finally up for Supreme Court scrutiny.
ACLU: “The agency’s new rule substitutes parents’ judgment as to what medical care is in the best interests of their children for the judgment of the government.”
Reason reported last year on how minors are particularly susceptible to being coerced into false confessions.
These orders aren’t about safety. They’re a complete rejection of the legitimacy of these procedures, and a denial of individual liberty.
"If this study doesn't put the nail in the coffin of academic training to little children, it's hard to imagine what will," says psychologist Peter Gray.
A new study of 915 childhood COVID-19 hospitalizations found that most involved underlying conditions.
"[T]he Fourth Amendment applies equally whether the government official is a police officer conducting a criminal investigation or a caseworker conducting a civil child welfare investigation."
"The market was asking that anyone who didn't need to go into the store to please stay outside," she says.
British political scientist David Runciman says the answer is "yes." And he makes a stronger case than you might think.
"This is fantastic progress in understanding childhood as the right time for children to learn to recognize and mitigate risk."
"When my daughter was 12 she'd walk down the streets of Shanghai to get donuts," says the mom, Megan McMurry.
Unvaccinated children have as much protection as vaccinated adults.
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"We thought they helped people."
"In Tinker, this Court held that "[i]t can hardly be argued that … students … shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." Yet [the school district] argues that students shed much of their freedom of speech even outside the schoolhouse gate, so long as their off-campus speech is reasonably expected to reach campus."
A blanket ban on medical procedures for minors is not a prescription for human liberty.
In 28 states, there's no minimum age for arresting kids.
even when the parents had originally agreed not to vaccinate, and one parent later changed his mind.
"If you're on that registry, you're bad."
As usual, at this point in the litigation the key questions focus on procedure.
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