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Rethinking Foster Care and Child Safety, with Kelley Fong and Frank Edwards
In this episode, Kelley Fong, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine and author of the award-winning book Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services, and Frank Edwards, Associate Professor at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice, join us to discuss their new study examining the relationship between foster…
Read MoreCall Now to Support the Parental Rights Amendment (HB148) in Alabama
Call Now to Support the Parental Rights Amendment (HB148)! House Bill 148, sponsored by Kenneth Paschal, would add a Parental Rights Amendment to the Alabama Constitution, affirming that: Parents have the fundamental right to direct the education, upbringing, care, and control of their child. HB148 was placed on the agenda of the Alabama House Judiciary Committee…
Read MoreSupreme Court Upholds Parental Rights with Mirabelli Injunction
On Monday, March 2, 2026, the United States Supreme Court struck another note in favor of parental rights in its decision to vacate an interlocutory stay order of the Ninth Circuit in the case of Mirabelli v. Bonta. Yes, that’s a mouthful. And I’ll explain what it all means in a moment, but the TL;DR…
Read MoreAlabama Bill Targets Abuse Registry Reform
Our Central Registry Due Process model bill has made its way to Alabama! On Tuesday, Alabama Rep. Kenneth Paschal introduced House Bill 464 (HB 464) to amend the state’s legal code governing child welfare investigations. The bill would protect innocent parents by keeping any cases where child abuse or neglect is determined to be “not…
Read MoreFlorida Bill to Restore Parents’ Rights in Medical Decisions
All over the country, parents just like you are frustrated over their inability to access their child’s medical records. Age twelve or thirteen is far too young for your child to be making major medical decisions, and both you and your child’s doctor know it. Yet, somehow, you can’t see your child’s medical records without…
Read MoreAmendments Introduced in Two More Southern States
Two more Southern states this year will have the opportunity to adopt Parental Rights Amendments to their constitutions, following the lead set by Texas in 2025. In Georgia, Representative Todd Jones and four cosponsors have introduced House Resolution 1023 (HR 1023), proposing an amendment to the state constitution to protect parents’ “fundamental right to direct…
Read MoreAction Needed in Indiana for Reasonable Childhood Independence
Several years ago, we had the privilege of weighing in on a model bill being drafted by lawyers at Let Grow to protect “reasonable childhood independence.” This model preserves the right of parents to decide when their children are ready to take a walk or play at a nearby park, without being accused of neglect.…
Read MoreNew Jersey Blinked
The holidays weren’t even behind us yet when the first warning over parental rights legislation was sounded in New Jersey. Assembly Bill 5796, which would require every homeschooling family to visit with a school official for a “welfare visit” on an annual basis, was scheduled to be heard in the Assembly Health Committee on Monday,…
Read MoreUrgent State Alert: New Jersey
The New Jersey Assembly’s Health Committee is taking up a bill on Monday to require every homeschooling family in the state to meet with their local school officials once a year for a “health and wellness check.” Assembly bill 5796 would require school officials to annually assess the wellness of homeschool students, though it fails…
Read MoreFlorida’s Office of Parental Rights, with Attorney General James Uthmeier
In this episode, James Uthmeier, Attorney General of Florida, joins us to discuss the creation of the state’s first-in-the-nation Office of Parental Rights within the Attorney General’s Office. Established earlier this year in response to a growing number of parental complaints, the office works to ensure Florida’s parental rights laws are upheld and that parents…
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