Updates
Answering Your Questions
A few weeks ago we planned to answer your questions about parents’ rights in the final episode of the Parental Rights Podcast. While we had an urgent news story come up instead, we still wanted to go through your questions and answer them as best we could. Where listeners asked similar questions, we’ve combined those into…
Read MoreDon’t Buy the Hype That Child Abuse Is Sky-Rocketing
Perhaps you’ve heard the dire predictions: with more children at home, more parents out of work, and fewer eyes on the students because schools are closed, child abuse and neglect will skyrocket during this COVID-19 pandemic. But now there are refreshing warnings: warnings from both the federal government and private sources, to caution us not…
Read MoreBlacklisted for Not Seeking Unnecessary Treatment
Cases like this are why the Parental Rights Foundation works to demand due process through child welfare reforms. Recently, a West Coast couple had their names added to their state’s child abuse and neglect registry for not getting their child medical attention that the child didn’t need. If that sentence made sense to you, you…
Read MoreFormer Magistrate Addresses “Educational Rights”
This week the Parental Rights Podcast features William Wagner’s discussion with our president, Jim Mason, about a Michigan law that would establish a “right” for all children to receive government-controlled education. Wagner is a former diplomat, federal prosecutor, and magistrate judge, a distinguished professor emeritus of law, and the president of Salt and Light Global.…
Read MoreSupreme Court of Texas Hears Parent’s Rights Case
The Supreme Court of Texas held oral arguments on April 22 in the case of In re C.J.C., case number 19-0684, dealing with parental rights. The case challenges a Texas law that allows a third party to sue a fit parent for visitation if the question at law is considered a continuation of an earlier custody…
Read MorePodcast Targets COVID-19 Crisis
In January of this year, the Parental Rights Foundation launched “the Parental Rights Podcast” to keep you informed and help you educate others on the state of parental rights and family freedoms in America. At that time, we could not have imagined the country would be closed down, state by state, in response to some…
Read MoreDoctors Choking on Bad Medicine
At a Wisconsin hospital, a doctor—a doctor!— and his family are finding out the hard way that the medical system is stacked against innocent families. And he has plenty of company. If you’ve followed us for any length of time, you already know I’m no fan of the new “pediatric child abuse” subspecialty adopted by…
Read MoreSpecial Announcement: Podcast Debuts Today!
Today is the day we launch the Parental Rights Podcast! Soon you will be able to stream or download from iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or Stitcher, but today you can get the earliest access to the premier episode right here at Parentalrightsfoundation.org. The first installment, hosted by Parental Rights Foundation President Jim Mason and Executive…
Read MoreSupporting Families in the Texas Supreme Court
He’s all she has left in the world, but he can’t protect her alone. He’s going to need our help. From the day she was born, Jaime (all names changed for privacy) was her dad’s princess and his world. And even when things between parents Brad and April fell apart, they still worked together to…
Read MoreThank you – you make it happen!
This year we set our most ambitious Giving Tuesday goal yet, and we missed it by only $3,400. All told, this Giving Tuesday raised $26,600.00 for the Parental Rights Foundation. Our goal for one-day giving was $30,000: half from matching grants secured in advance, and the other half from all of you. While we fell…
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