Arizona Mom Threatened With Prison, Placed on Secret Blacklist For Letting Kids Play At the Park
"The market was asking that anyone who didn't need to go into the store to please stay outside," she says.
Parental Rights
De Blasio's New York Shouldn't Treat Unvaccinated Kids as Second-Class Citizens
Requiring kids as young as 5 to either get vaccinated or stay home is not as smart or as necessary as de Blasio claims.
Mom Sues Cops Who Arrested Her for Leaving 14-Year-Old Daughter Home Alone
"When my daughter was 12 she'd walk down the streets of Shanghai to get donuts," says the mom, Megan McMurry.
The Good and the Bad in the 666 Bills That Took Effect This Week in Texas
While libertarians will be inclined to applaud some of the new laws, others exemplify familiar conservative excesses.
COVID-19 Vaccination Should Not Be Legally Required for Parenthood
Only in extreme circumstances should a court come between a parent and their child.
The Secret To Vaccinating Children: Off-Label Vaccinations
It’s legal for doctors to give kids the Pfizer vaccine, but Pfizer isn’t allowed to say so.
COVID Closures of Private Schools May Have Been Unconstitutional
So holds a Ninth Circuit panel (by a 2-1 vote), evaluating the California closure rules.
After a False Abuse Allegation, Child Services Took This Mom's 3 Children Away
"We thought they helped people."
Mom Faces Felony Charges For Taking a Drug Prescribed by Her Doctor While Pregnant
"I didn't think it was a big deal," says Kim Blalock. "My son is perfectly fine."
Do Nannies Have "Justifiable Expectation" That They Won't Be Audiorecorded at Work?
No, says the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, though over a dissent.
School Calls Child Services on Mom Who Was 7 Minutes Late to Pick Up Her 10-Year-Old Son
"I'm getting it out there to make people aware," said JaNay Dodson in an interview.
Court Can Let Pro-Vaccination Divorced Parent Vaccinate Child,
even when the parents had originally agreed not to vaccinate, and one parent later changed his mind.
Murky Laws Make It Too Easy To Label Good Parents 'Neglectful'
Everyday parenting decisions should not put people at risk of getting arrested, losing their kids, or being listed on a state registry for child endangerment.
Mother Forbidden from Mentioning Her Own Name in Criticizing Custody Decision—and the Penn. S. Ct. Upholds This
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court 5-2 majority concludes that the injunction is "content-neutral," quite erroneously, I think.
Public Schools Are Losing Their Captive Audience of Children
Pandemic chaos is driving families to flee government institutions in search of education that better suits their needs.
Bureaucrats Declare War on Learning Pods. They'll Lose.
Flexible education crafted to meet family needs is destined to prevail over failing government schools.
545 Migrant Kids Snatched by the U.S. Government Are Still Missing Parents
Plus: What Jeffrey Toobin teaches us about Section 230, Wisconsin's Foxconn boondoggle, Breonna Taylor juror speaks out, and more...
Colorado Couple's Adoption Plans Wrecked by Child Neglect Charges for Briefly Letting a Kid Nap in the Car
"If you're on that registry, you're bad."
Interesting Custody Case Involving a Child and His Grandparents vs. the Father
As usual, at this point in the litigation the key questions focus on procedure.
Court Strikes Down Injunction Banning Divorcing Parents from Disparaging Each Other
An important decision from the Massachusetts high court.
Court Upholds Mandatory Newborn Health Screening Program,
rejecting Fourth Amendment and substantive due process arguments against it.
'Taking Our Baby to the Hospital Was the Single Most Harmful Decision We Made'
Child services falsely labeled this dad an abuser and took his adopted newborn.
Policing Parents and Kids: The Year's 8 Most Paranoid Moments
And five examples of parents wisely letting their kids go—and grow.
Want the Government To 'Defend Families' From Porn? Child Protective Services Should Be a Cautionary Tale.
The new right naively thinks a government more empowered to "protect children" would be good for families. Nope.
300 Families Say Child Services Wrongly Accused Them of Abuse and Unjustly Stole Their Kids
"It’s an epidemic across our nation," one parent told NBC.
