Category: Parental Rights/ Parenting
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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Our Schools Are Failing. Here’s How to Find a School That Works
The decline is nationwide. As a lengthy investigation in The Atlantic found, “America’s students are getting much worse at math. . . math scores are [now] close to where they were in the 1970s. . .losing 50 years’ worth of math-education progress is a clear disaster.” The decline began around 2016—more about that below—and was accelerated by the pandemic.
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“Addictive” Meta Battles Child Protection Allegations in Court
In a high-stakes legal appearance, Zuckerberg expressed regret over Meta’s sluggishness on child safety issues—while simultaneously spreading blame to rivals Apple and Google.
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Safe House Project: How one group is empowering everyday people to combat trafficking
Kristi Wells, co-founder and CEO of Safe House Project, spoke with Live Action News about the organization’s efforts to end child trafficking, how abortion intersects with trafficking, and what the pro-life movement can do to make a difference.
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Plastic surgeon apologizes for failing to ‘speak up’ against youth trans surgeries at major NYC hospital
I can only imagine what the parents were going through. I mean, they’re told that their child is going to kill themselves if they don’t have these surgeries.
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Pro-life advocate draws attention to Alberta rule denying care for premature babies due to cost
“Put plainly: babies born younger than 23 weeks’ gestation are left to die.”
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