Parental Rights Are a Cornerstone of American Law
COMMENTARY: No school counselor, government agency or ideology can replace the presence of an attentive and loving parent.
Results from Tag: 'parental rights'
Supreme Court Rejects California’s Presumption Against Parents
COMMENTARY: In a 6-3 decision, the justices lift a stay blocking enforcement of a state policy that allowed schools to facilitate a child’s gender transition without parental knowledge or consent.
Supreme Court Asked to Block California School Gender Secrecy Rules Amid Ongoing Lawsuit
Dec. 22, 2025, ruling struck down the secretive policies on First Amendment grounds and held that parents ‘have a right’ to the ‘gender information’ of their children, while teachers themselves also have the right to provide parents with that information. But a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit blocked that order Jan. 5.
Texas Voters to Decide on Parental Rights Amendment in November
The Lone Star State already ranks among 26 states with a Parents’ Bill of Rights enshrined in state law.
Why Did Denmark Make Mothers Pass a Parenting Test (with Math Problems) to Keep Their Babies?
For Catholics, the tests raise deeper questions about parental rights and the relationship between the state and the family.
A Hat Tip to America: Religious Freedom and Parental Rights in the US and Germany
EDITORIAL: The Supreme Court’s recent Montgomery County decision and the Archdiocese of Hamburg’s new pro-LGBT sex-education policy starkly contrast the two nations’ very different situations.
Mahmoud Decision Furthers US Supreme Court’s Protection of Parental and Religious Liberty, Legal Scholars Say
‘The effect of this opinion will be to alert government agencies that parents’ constitutional rights to direct the religious upbringing of their children are alive and well under our Constitution …’
SCOTUS Justices Appear to Support Maryland Parents in Religious-Rights Case
COMMENTARY: In ‘Mahmoud v. Taylor,’ the court has the opportunity to safeguard the central role of parents in forming their children.
During Oral Arguments, Supreme Court Seems to Support Parental Opt-Outs for LGBT Coursework
Catholic, Ethiopian Orthodox and Muslim parents sued the Montgomery County Board of Education in May 2023 after the body ended its policy of notifying parents of coursework promoting homosexuality and transgenderism and allowing the parents to opt out.
What’s at Stake in Mahmoud v. Taylor: The Right to Raise Your Own Child
COMMENTARY: In a time when parental authority is under siege, this case could reaffirm what the Constitution — and common sense — have always made clear: Children belong first to families, not the state.
