Category: Parental Rights/ Parenting

Across the country, recovery housing programs are helping men overcome substance use disorders and rebuild their lives. But what happens when recovery goes beyond sobriety and addresses men’s role as fathers?

A jury has found Meta and Google liable for $6 million in damages in a landmark case that alleged the popular social media apps are designed to addict children. The plaintiff in the high-profile case against the social media giants was a 20-year-old woman known as “Kaley” who said she became obsessed by Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube apps when she was a child because the apps were purposely designed to be addictive.

‘You could check on your kid, it could be kid-friendly videos, and then three minutes later it could be totally something dark because of the algorithms they start creating.’

The ruling reinforced a principle that has appeared again and again in American constitutional law: The parent-child relationship occupies a privileged position above and beyond the interventions of outside adults and institutions.

In this series on godly parenting, we have described the footers for our parenting house as our personal well-being — especially our relationship with God. A parent with a vibrant relationship with God is far more likely to be an excellent parent than one who is conflicted about his or her relationship with the Eternal.

A jury in New Mexico determined on Tuesday that Meta misled consumers about the safety of its platforms and put children in harm’s way by failing to protect them from sexual predators.