Parental Rights

“On Friday, the U.S. Department of Education released updated regulations for Title IX. The result is bad for parents, potentially harmful for children, and turns the protections for young women on their head.” - Breakpoint

“The new survey shows that 58 percent of white evangelicals say there should be a requirement for children attending public schools to be vaccinated, while 40 percent say parents should be able to choose” - CToday

ERLC and Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention are backing parents seeking legal standing to contest the Eau Claire (WI) Area School District policy that “permits staff to conceal from parents their child is identifying at school as a gender different than his or her biological sex.” - BPNews

“The fight over ‘book banning’ and who has the final word in a child’s education has taken some nasty turns of late. Everyone needs to take a step back and put the debate into some commonsense context.” - Acton

“My daughter calls me from the school and says, ‘Mama, can you bring me some dry clothes? I got baptized today,’” one parent told The Fayetteville Observer. “I said, ‘What?’” - CPost

“Last year, a coalition of organizations, including the Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Policy Alliance, Colson Center, and the Heritage Foundation, teamed up to issue a Promise to America’s Children…. Today, we join again, this time to issue a Promise to America’s Parents.” - Breakpoint

“the intellectual superstructure is already in place to chip away at parental authority over children’s lives. This may not result in the immediate removal of children from Christian homes, but instead the denial of Christian parents to oversee the development and upbringing of their children as they see fit” - Eikon

“Under the bill, school principals would have seven business days to review complaints from parents that a given book is obscene and ‘lacking in serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors.’” - C.Index

“Parents suing a Wisconsin school district over a policy that allows officials to withhold knowledge of students’ efforts to change their gender identity from their families will have their case brought before the state supreme court.” - CPost

“A five-day trial for Hoogland on a similar but separate contempt of court charge is scheduled to begin on April 12. During that trial, Hoogland is expected to be allowed to share his side of the story unrestrained by orders restricting his freedom of speech, according to sources.” - C.Post