Category: Parental Rights/ Parenting

A federal appeals court ordered a local Ohio school district to dismantle a policy banning the use of biological sex pronouns to refer to transgender students in a ruling on Friday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit sided 10-7 in an en banc ruling with Defending Education, a parental rights movement group that works to “fight indoctrination in classrooms,” per their mission statement

At a Senate hearing this September, three parents recounted heartbreaking stories about how popular AI companions emotionally manipulated their teens and encouraged them to harm themselves and take their own lives. Only one of the parents was lucky enough to figure out what was happening in time to save their child. The other two tragically lost their teens. In each case, the victim was a teenage boy.

Texas voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Proposition 15, the Parental Rights Amendment, with more than 72% in favor. The measure, which passed alongside all 16 other constitutional amendments on the ballot, enshrines parents’ fundamental authority over their children’s upbringing directly into the Texas Constitution, marking the first such explicit protection in any U.S. state charter.

Parents of young children in the U.S. report finding parenthood to be increasingly difficult and stressful, even though life, by nearly every metric, is much better for us than it was for our ancestors. Why? There are probably many factors, and in our next three essays, we will explore a few of them. First, we will consider the burgeoning trend of “gentle” parenting and its cousin, “intensive” parenting, considering why these modes of parenting prove not only untenable for parents but stressful for kids.