Parental Rights

“An Ohio couple on Friday (Feb. 16) lost permanent custody of their teenage daughter because they didn’t want her to undergo sex-change treatment.” BPNews

“Medina County Probate and Juvenile Judge Kevin Dunn terminated the medical guardianship for the girl, ending a legal battle over the limits on parents’ rights to make medical decisions.”

“Because the Nauglers wouldn’t let the police officers or a representative from CHFS speak with their children without a warrant, the parents were deemed to be not cooperative, according to the report.

“It was a one-mile walk home from a Silver Spring park on Georgia Avenue on a Saturday afternoon. But what the parents saw as a moment of independence for their 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter, they say authorities viewed much differently.” Washington Post

Justina Pelletier should be returned to her family

“Farris says that all the court options to save the Romeikes from being deported have been exhausted, but HSLDA is working on a congressional solution.” CPost

“The appeals court reported Feb. 21 that it has slated oral arguments in the case for April, with the court to get two very different opinions of the Christian parents from Germany.”

(“Uwe and Hannelore Romeike fled to America in 2008 because the German government would not let them homeschool their children.”)



Delaware became the first state in the in the nation to effectively outlaw corporal discipline of children by their parents… the legislation creates a definition of the term “physical injury” in the child abuse and neglect laws to include “pain.”