Category: Parental Rights/ Parenting

Back to the Basics Is the Key to Teaching Our Children to Read

Between 1900 and 1950, literacy among Americans 14 years and older rose dramatically. The 1950 Census found that illiteracy was below 3% in two-thirds of the states and below 10% in all states. These studies defined illiteracy as a complete inability to read English or any other language. Seventy-five years later, that definition has changed a bit, but literacy in our country is growing worse.

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Court Dismisses Abortion Group’s Lawsuit to Overturn Missouri’s Parental Consent Law

In a decisive victory for life, parental rights, and the rule of law, a Missouri court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a radical abortion group that sought to overturn the state’s commonsense parental consent law. This is a major win for Missouri families – and for the ACLJ, which filed a legal brief in this case defending the right of parents to be involved in their children’s most serious life decisions.

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SCOTUS May Hear Colorado Family’s Case: Can Schools Secretly Transition Students?

On Monday, the United States Supreme Court met privately to consider cases for the new term beginning next week. Among them is a case involving a Colorado family whose daughter was secretly transitioned by a public school district. The case has garnered national attention in the ongoing debate over parental rights in education. The family is hoping the Court will take the case and use it to affirm parental rights against school districts that attempt to usurp the authority of fit parents to direct the care, upbringing and education of their children.

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Parents’ rights group files complaint against Planned Parenthood’s ‘gender affirming care’

A parents’ rights group in Washington has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho over its “gender affirming services.” A letter sent to the FTC said the Washington Parents Network is comprised of over 3,000 parents across the state; that letter alleged that Planned Parenthood is profiting from the dangerous ‘gender affirming’ drugs being given to children.

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Judge denies Planned Parenthood’s request to halt Nevada parental notification law

After Roe’s overturn in 2022, Nevada began implementing previously dormant laws, including the one requiring parental notification for an abortion. The abortion industry quickly stepped in to challenge the law, and it was temporarily blocked. A federal court lifted that injunction on July 22, allowing the law to go into effect. But the day before, on July 21, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte had filed another lawsuit against the law in an additional effort to have it blocked.

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LONG-DISTANCE GRANDPARENTING: HAVING AN IMPACT ACROSS THE MILES

It would be wonderful if all grandparents lived near their grandchildren and had easy access to them, but in today’s world, that is rarely the case. If you are a long-distance grandparent, here are ten ways to stay connected.
One of the great joys of growing older is becoming a grandparent! And one of the great heartbreaks of grandparenting is being separated from your grandchildren for long periods of time as a long-distance grandparent.

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