Category: Parental Rights/ Parenting
Heritage Foundation Special Report: Saving America by Saving the Family
Looking forward to the next 250 years: The family is the foundation of civilization, and marriage—the committed union of one man and one woman—is its cornerstone. It is the seedbed of self-government.
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Climate Anxiety Needlessly Fuels Fertility Crisis
Among U.S. adults under 50 who say they’re unlikely to ever have children, roughly one in four cite environmental concerns, including climate change, as a major reason, according to the Pew Research Center.
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Passive Parenting is Leaving Kids Unprepared for School
A growing reluctance among adults to set and enforce limits leaves schools to manage the consequences of this avoidance.
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Recess Is Becoming Too Safe
A cursory glance at school handbooks and local reporting reveals rules against unstructured running, jumping off swings, running up slides, twisting on swings, swinging sideways, sitting on top of monkey bars, and more.
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The Joy of Being the “Default Parent”
Children’s natural preference for their mother is a biological reality.
… the “default parent” has the joy of being, albeit temporarily, her child’s almost sole source of comfort and rest. The mother has the immense privilege of satisfying all of her child’s needs in the first year or so of his or her life.
School District Accused of Forcing Kids to Hide Bibles
An organization that provides Bible programming to public school children is suing a Washington state school district, alleging officials are improperly targeting its Christian program.
Joel Penton, CEO of LifeWise Academy, told CBN News his organization allows parents to opt-in for their kids to go off-site during lunch, recess, and other non-essential periods from public schools during the day.
“We’re not looking for fights,” Penton said. “We’re looking to teach the Bible to kids.”
Calls to pregnancy support helpline broke records in 2025
According to the organization’s press release, Option Line is a confidential, around-the-clock helpline for individuals and couples seeking pregnancy help or who are seeking abortion. The professionally trained staff provides consultations to callers and connects them to local pregnancy help organizations as well. The staff also offers “compassionate listening [and] accurate information” to the more than 3,700 callers they speak with each day — including nights, weekends, and holidays.
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Proposed Executive Order Would Protect Parental Rights
A pro-family, pro-child coalition urged the Trump administration this week to issue an executive order protecting parental rights and the religious freedom of Christian parents and foster parents.
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Massachusetts father wins injunction against school that pushed LGBT books on 5-year-old son
The father objected to the content of certain books concerning sexual themes and contended that his child has been compelled “to participate in classroom instruction that promote[s] sexualized and ideological messages directly contrary to his family’s faith.” He also contended that as a parent, he had the right to be notified before his son is exposed to objectionable sexual material and to be able to opt his child out of lessons and other classroom activities involving those materials.
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Missouri’s Prison Nursery Program ‘changes lives’ of moms and their babies
A program that results in moms being able to keep their babies and learn how to parent with the support of fellow mothers, even while incarcerated, is clearly a win for both the moms and babies. “I get to go to a job every day where I get to look at and hug babies and still do something meaningful,” Perkins said. “It changes lives. A lot of these ladies would not have been able to keep their babies.”
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An Impossible Life
Nothing should grow that quickly, yet it happens with every baby. Every time. And, somehow, all those multiplying cells align themselves, plugging into the right places to form a tiny, pumping heart, brain, eyes, kidneys, hands, feet, and all the rest. That’s how we all begin. Impossibly.
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GOOD NEWS: Mississippi Looks to Reform, Establish Education Freedom
The Magnolia Student Accounts put parents back in the driver’s seat of their children’s education. It recognizes a simple truth: Families know their children better than bureaucrats do, and they should have the freedom to choose education options that match their kids’ unique needs.
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