Category: Parental Rights/ Parenting
Parents Group Issues Urgent Warning as WSJ Report Reveals Meta’s AI Chatbots are Grooming & Sexually Exploiting Kids
As AI chatbots become more prevalent across social media platforms, ParentsTogether Action, with support from the Heat Initiative, have issued an urgent advisory warning to parents about the potential risks to their children’s safety. Meta AI, which is available to kids via WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook, may engage in sexually exploitative grooming behaviors with users they perceive as children, according to both independent testing and a Wall Street Journal investigation.
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North Dakota’s Missed School Choice Opportunity
The North Dakota Legislature passed House Bill 1540, a bill to create a universal education savings account that would have empowered families with more education options. With the accounts, families could have used a portion of their child’s education funding for private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, special needs services, or other approved educational expenses. The legislation would have put parents—not politicians and bureaucrats—in the driver’s seat regarding their children’s education.
Unfortunately for North Dakota families, Armstrong vetoed the measure.
‘BRIDGE TOO FAR’: Colorado House Minority Leader Warns Transgender Custody Bill Is ‘Huge Violation of Parental Rights’
“As parents, we have the God-given right to raise our children in the way that we see fit,” House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese, a Republican, told The Daily Signal in an interview Friday. “We all take issue with the notion that if you don’t subscribe to a certain ideology, that that could affect your parental rights or even custody of our children.”
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What’s Holding Women Back from Starting a Family?
Media influencer Brett Cooper did something last year that most people her age won’t: she got married. “It’s the most grounding experience I’ve ever had,” she told a crowd gathered at the University of Virginia for the National Marriage Project’s spring conference, cosponsored with the Wheatley Institute. Cooper is 23 and had celebrated her one-year anniversary the week before the event. The conference topic was: “In Pursuit: What do marriage and motherhood have to do with the happiness of women?”
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The Radicalization of UN Youth Forum
The recently concluded UN Youth Forum platformed young voices advocating for some of the most controversial UN policies and programs, promoting young people as key agents for the achievement of the abortion and gender ideology agendas. Panelists asked for the development of technologies that promote abortion access, AI systems that normalize non-conventional gender roles and sexual identities, and apps that offer widespread access to sexuality education.
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Abortion Pill Used to Kill 26-Week-Old Unborn Baby
ight To Life UK is calling for an immediate end to the ‘pills by post’ at-home abortion scheme, after a jury was told that one of the UK’s largest abortion providers, MSI Reproductive Choices (previously Marie Stopes) supplied pills through this scheme, which the jury heard were used to end the life of an unborn baby through an abortion at 26 weeks gestation. Right To Life UK is also calling for a full inquiry into the abortion provider, MSI Reproductive Choices, whom the prosecution told the court had provided the abortion pills that were used for the abortion at 26 weeks gestation through the at-home abortion scheme.
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Education Freedom Meets Religious Freedom
The court has just heard Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which families from a variety of faiths—Muslims, Jews, Christians—are fighting imposition by the Board of Education in Montgomery County, Maryland, requirements that children learn material about gender ideology. As reported by the Becket Fund: “These parents are simply asking to be notified when the books will be read to their children and to be given an opportunity to opt out.”
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Trump admin: We ‘will not tolerate’ states using gender ideology to strip parental rights
A Colorado proposal that would punish parents for not using preferred pronouns is an example of government overreach, warned the U.S. Department of Education. Speaking to the Daily Signal, U.S. Department of Education (DOE) spokeswoman Julie Hartman declared that “children do not belong to the government. They belong to parents.”
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The Cultural Rebellion of Parenting
Parenting itself, particularly the loving, authoritative parenting that is going extinct, can be a strain of rebellion or resistance against the woke agenda which has permeated culture in recent years. Author Neil Postman explained the five steps to such parental rebellion as he wrapped up his book, “The Disappearance of Childhood.”
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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.
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Defending Faith and Parental Rights in the Classroom
Maryland’s Montgomery County Board of Education is denying my husband and me the ability to exempt our daughter from storybooks and instructional materials that promote a narrow and ideologically driven view of gender and sexuality. The school even refuses to inform us when these books are introduced or discussed, leaving us in the dark. Tomorrow, we will take our fight—Mahmoud v. Taylor—to the Supreme Court, asking for the restoration of our fundamental right to guide our child’s education in alignment with our faith.
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Florida attorney general announces lawsuit against Snapchat for allegedly empowering child predators
The law signed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered social media companies to restrict access to children under the age of 14, but Snapchat has continued to allow full access to minors, according to the lawsuit.
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