Top Five Accomplishments of 2025

It was an excellent question: What were our biggest accomplishments of 2025?

I was having lunch with a friend the other day, and in the interest of catching up (in a very “January” sort of way), he asked, “So, apart from the ALEC thing” (which we had been discussing already), “what was your (PRF’s) biggest accomplishment of 2025?”

Before I get to my answer, I should explain that “the ALEC thing” refers to my trip to the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) in Fort Worth in early December. I attended in part to champion a model bill protecting the due process rights of parents (as well as children and relative care givers) when the State feels that family separation is necessary but doesn’t want to bring the children into formal foster care. In such instances, the agency will recommend parents send their children to live with a relative for a time, and our model bill would govern such arrangements. 

This model bill was drafted by lawyers, policy experts, and persons with lived experience. What’s more, the drafting team spanned both sides of the political aisle. To carry a bill that has input from the ACLU and other left-leaning organizations into a right-leaning coalition like ALEC is a rare gift that, frankly, sets the Parental Rights Foundation apart from other pro-family organizations. And that makes “the ALEC thing” a definite inclusion on my list of “biggest accomplishments of 2025.”

So, what does the rest of that list look like? (Note to my friend: I’ve had more time to think about this since lunch, so I’ve filled out the list a little more.)

First, there’s the passage of a state Parental Rights Amendment to the Texas Constitution. Now, I want to be careful not to take too much credit for that. Although their amendment borrows some language from our own, and although we fully supported it as it was going through the legislative process and onto the ballot, other organizations, especially Texas-based organizations, took the lead and did most of the heavy lifting. (These organizations included Family Freedom Project, Texas Home School Coalition, and the Texas Public Policy Foundation, to name a few.)

We did weigh in favorably and help, though. And since its passage, we have been privileged to sign onto an amicus brief for the Texas Supreme Court helping to guide their application of this new constitutional provision to parental rights cases the Court is currently deliberating.

Since Texas is the first state in the country to successfully adopt a Parental Rights Amendment to their constitution, that accomplishment certainly merits a mention on my list for 2025.

Next, there’s the passage of Senate Bill 143, the Parents’ Bill of Rights, in Indiana. The accomplishment may seem less impactful at first blush—Indiana is now one of about twenty states with similar laws protecting parental rights, not a lone outlier like Texas. But the new law will make all the difference for families in Indiana. 

And it was such a long time coming. I got to witness the faithful and selfless dedication of our state volunteer (I called her “Esther” in this article from October) beginning all the way back in 2018, and despite various trials along the way, she (and her family) never gave up. Thus, I simply must include this accomplishment—in many ways her accomplishment—on this “biggest accomplishments of 2025” list. 

Moving from the States to Congress, the next big accomplishment of 2025 was the reintroduction of the Parental Rights Amendment, H.J. Res 127, by Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) on September 19. To date, the resolution has twelve cosponsors, which is just shy of twice as many as its predecessor received in the last Congress (seven). You can see that list of cosponsors here. 

If your congressman isn’t yet on the list, why not email or call and ask them to sign on today? Simply tell them you’re a constituent and that you support H.J. Res. 127, the Parental Rights Amendment, and that you would like them to sign on as a cosponsor. They can do so by reaching out to Worth Loving in the office of Rep. Mary Miller.

And that brings me to the last item on my list, and perhaps our biggest accomplishment of the year: the Supreme Court’s ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor.

Like the Texas PRA listed above, obviously we can’t take credit for the Supreme Court’s ruling per se. We certainly didn’t write it for them.

But what we can take credit for is an excellent amicus brief written by our founder and former president, Michael Farris, on behalf of the Parental Rights Foundation, National Religious Broadcasters, Wagner Faith and Freedom Center, and Concerned Women for America. In it, Farris leaned on the Supreme Court’s own history of parental rights jurisprudence and argued that the Court “has promised parents that public schools must adhere to religious neutrality.” Parents do not send their children to school to be indoctrinated into viewpoints the parents don’t share. Rather, they send them to school to receive an education.

The result of the case, with our brief in consideration, was a wholesale win for parents who send their children to public schools. It was the most significant parental rights case in a quarter century, and it was one of the most favorable in the storied history of such cases. Today, religious parents (of all faiths; the litigants in Mahmoud included Jewish, Muslim, and Catholic families) can feel a little safer sending their children to public school, knowing their right has been restored to direct the upbringing and education of their children.

Yes, my friend asked an excellent question. And as I thought it through, I realized: with your partnership and support, we accomplished a lot in 2025! Thank you for standing with us, and empowering us to stand with you.