Category: Parental Rights/ Parenting
Michelle Obama Tells Women to Leave Their Kids and Go to Work
Obama urged working mothers to pursue their passions outside the home, assuring them that their children would not be “broken” by the decision, while criticizing society for opposing abortion without providing adequate support for new mothers. Never mind that tons of government programs, private charities, as well as thousands of churches and pregnancy centers provide a whole host of resources for pregnant and parenting moms.
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‘Uneducated’ Homeschoolers Might Just Take Over the World
So until public schools get their act together, homeschoolers shouldn’t be given any grief about how they operate, because if the bar really is public schools, then the bar is on the floor.
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Meta blocks AI chatbot from discussing abortion with minors
Meta won’t allow its AI chatbot to discuss abortion with minors, according to a report from the progressive outlet Mother Jones. Citing internal Meta documents, Mother Jones reported that Meta’s chatbot policy guidelines for interactions with minors prevent the chatbot from advising them on “content that provides advice or opinion” about “sexual health” or offering information helping them obtain an abortion.
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Indiana Protects Religious Freedom of Adoptive and Foster Care Families
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun signed a bill on Wednesday protecting families and faith-based adoption and foster care organizations from discrimination based on their sincerely held religious beliefs. The bill (HB 1389) stipulates that state government agencies may not discriminate against any adoptive or foster parent “who raises, or intends to raise, a child in a manner consistent with [their] sincerely held religious beliefs.”
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Texas can enforce ban on ‘sexually oriented’ drag shows for children, court rules
A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has finally cleared the law to take effect in March, in a victory for the protection of children against LGBT depravity.
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Vermont stops forcing foster parents to adhere to LGBT ideology, restores licenses
Vermont has adopted new guidance eliminating a requirement that foster parents embrace LGBT ideology and has restored the licenses of foster parents who had theirs revoked over their religious beliefs, bringing an end to several lawsuits.
ADF Senior Counsel Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse called the new developments “an incredible victory for children in Vermont’s foster-care system.”
Study Falsely Claims Abortion is Safer Than Childbirth
Maria Steenland, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health, claims, “Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.”
Steenland et al’s assertion that abortion bans will increase maternal mortality is not supported by good evidence. It is instead an example of why abortion proponents routinely oppose the laws and regulations necessary to provide for adequate surveillance of abortion related injuries. Junk data makes it easier to pretend that abortion is safe.
Hard Parenting, Better Relationships: New Evidence
Parenting feels easier when parents feel their partners and the surrounding community are more supportive, per new IFS survey.
When parenting is too hard, fewer children are born.
Parents who want better relationships with their kids often feel pressured to relax expectations and rules (and our findings certainly don’t mean case-by-case exceptions are bad!), but the truth is that the hard work of maintaining household norms and rules pays off.
Colorado bill would remove children from parents who refuse to affirm “gender identity”
Colorado Democrats have advanced legislation that would empower courts to remove children from parents who decline to affirm their child’s claimed “gender identity,” treating biological reality as potential grounds for custody loss.
Similar cases have unfolded in Indiana, Montana, Texas, and Arizona, where states removed minors from “non-affirming” homes and placed them in facilities promoting medical transition.
Minnesota trans lawmaker claims porn sites are ‘educational’ for ‘queer kids’
Minnesota Democratic state Rep. Leigh Finke, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, told a legislative hearing that pornography websites can serve as “educational” content for “queer” children.
Finke has a long record of advancing radical gender policies, including authoring Minnesota’s 2023 “trans refuge” law that shields child sex-change procedures from parental consent requirements.
Spain’s far-left Podemos pushes mandatory sex ed for toddlers
Spain’s radical-left Podemos party is advancing a non-binding motion in Congress to impose mandatory comprehensive sex education across all educational stages, starting from Early Childhood Education at age three through Baccalaureate and Vocational Training.
The curriculum would incorporate a “gender perspective, human rights, sexual diversity, and the prevention of male violence,” developed with specialists in “sexual health, feminist pedagogy, and LGBT rights.”
Fed up With Screens, Parents Are Demanding a Return To Pen and Paper in the Classroom
Not so very long ago, school districts and education leaders told us that technology in the classroom was essential to the success of our students. “An iPad on every desk” became the new “chicken in every pot” slogan, as experts tried to convince us that technology could be a panacea for the nation’s test scores.
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