Category: Parental Rights/ Parenting

New Research Shows How Fatherhood Uniquely Boosts Child Health

New medical research from a group of Penn State scholars provides new evidence on the unique importance of a father’s role in boosting the physiological health of his children. Appearing in the journal Health Psychology, this longitudinal research is the first of its kind to document how warm and engaged fathering in early childhood raises “children’s later cardiometabolic health.”

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‘Going No-Contact’ Is a Blood Sport

Unfortunately, such estrangements are increasing across America. “Ten years ago, a parent who had not met a grandchild or had been cut out of an adult child’s life was a rarity in counseling offices like mine,” writer and therapist Paula Rinehart recalls. “Now the experience is becoming far more common.” Rinehart cites a recent YouGov poll estimating that 38% of Americans are estranged from a sibling, parent/child, or grandparent/child.

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushes radical abortion agenda

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled plans to open two new clinics dubbed “Elevate You,” specifically for young people aged 16 to 25, under the guise of providing behavioral health, primary care, and “reproductive care”—including abortions.
Pro-life advocates decry this as a taxpayer-funded push to normalize the destruction of innocent lives, prioritizing death over true support for mothers, families, and life-affirming alternatives.

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Nintendo game pushes non-binary, bisexual characters on kids

Nintendo’s latest release, “Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream,” rated PEGI 3 and marketed for all ages, has sparked outrage for allowing young players to create non-binary and bisexual characters. The game offers gender options including male, female, and non-binary, with dating preferences that can include one gender, more than one, or none—effectively promoting LGBT identities in a title accessible to three-year-olds.

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Media watchdog hopes ‘bellwether’ case brings a reckoning

“I have seen how these tech platforms have specifically hired psychiatrists, psychologists, neuroscientists,” the watchdog relays.
“The allegation is that these people have been hired specifically to figure out how to hook kids and adults on the platform.”A potential landmark case currently winding its way through the California court system could hold Big Social Media accountable for intentionally designing their platforms to be addictive to children and teens.

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Mom demands Big Tech accountability, says federal law blocking justice for deceased son

A California mother whose 16-year-old son died by suicide following severe cyberbullying joined anti-sexual exploitation advocates and bipartisan lawmakers in demanding the reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which they say Big Tech uses as a loophole to avoid accountability for distributing offensive or explicit content.

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France moves closer to banning social media for minors under 15

The French National Assembly overwhelmingly passed legislation last week that would ban children under 15 from using social media.
“With this law, we are setting a clear limit in society. We are saying something simple: Social media is not harmless,” MP Laure Miller, who authored the bill, said after it passed.
“Banning social media for those under 15: this is what scientists recommend, and this is what the French people are overwhelmingly calling for,” Macron said.

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