Category: parental rights

Walmart Displays Explicit Items Near Children’s Toothbrushes per Corporate Policy: Employees

HIXSON, Tenn.—Walmart employees don’t necessary want to display explicit adult items a few feet from children’s princess and superhero toothbrushes. But store layout is strictly specified by corporate policy, they told an Epoch Times reporter, who asked about the choice at stores in Dalton, Georgia, as well as Signal Mountain and Hixson, Tennessee. Another Walmart…


Billboard Chris Urges Oklahoma to Pass Laws Against Child Sex-Change Surgery

Activist Billboard Chris thinks that until recently, Republicans have feared the political fallout of opposing sex-change procedures on children. Now, he said, they see that fighting radical gender ideology has public support. “They realize this is a winning issue for them to talk about when they talk about it truthfully and with compassion,” he told…


With States Hands-Off, Homeschooling Takes Off

South Dakota epitomizes the rapid growth of homeschooling in America. Guided by the principle that parents, not the government, have the right to determine what and how their kids are taught, homeschooling families have overturned existing rules and batted down attempts over the last decade to impose new ones in many states, including South Dakota….


Texas Widens Investigation Into Complaints Parents Denied Access to Their Teens’ Medical Records

Texas is investigating claims that hospitals and medical-records companies deny parents access to their child’s data once they reach the age of 13. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Nov. 17 that he is expanding his investigation into Epic Systems Corporation, an electronic medical records company in Wisconsin. “Too many companies are taking marching…


Texas Bills Seek to Protect Children from Drag Performances, Sex Change Procedures

Texas Republicans this week pre-filed a slate of bills to pursue at the next state legislative session in January that seek to prevent children from seeing drag shows and would classify sex-change procedures for minors as child abuse. State Rep. Jared Patterson (R-Frisco) on Nov. 14 filed HB643, which seeks to reclassify businesses that permit drag performances…


Michigan Democrats Sweep Races for Statewide Education Posts

From the publicly elected State Board of Education to the boards of trustees of three universities, the Nov. 8 election put Democrats even more firmly in charge of education policy in Michigan. Voters filled every one of the statewide elective education positions on the ballot with a Democrat, despite a robust conservative parental rights movement…


South Korea to Allow Abused Children to File for Removal of Parental Rights

The State Council of South Korea has approved an amendment to the Family Litigation Act allowing abused minors to directly petition for the termination of parental rights, according to the Ministry of Justice. The revised bill, which was approved at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, is aimed at strengthening the procedural rights of minors in…


British Feminist Against Transgenderism Tours US: ‘Land of Free Speech’ Doesn’t Feel Free

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—British feminist Kellie-Jay Keen is touring the United States to raise more awareness that gender transition is “mutilating children’s bodies” and “the sterilization of those children.” At the same time, she didn’t feel that the United States was so free. “I want people to be fully knowledgeable about what [gender transition] is that…


Activist Says Parents Should Fight Laws Permitting Sexually Explicit Books in Schools

Sexually explicit books, such as “Gender Queer,” infiltrate schools across the country because of a legal loophole, according to Indiana-based parental rights activist Alvin Lui. Lui is the president of Courage is a Habit, a group dedicated to keeping children from being exposed to radical gender ideology. In 43 states, it’s permissible to show materials…


School Board Elections Are Dirty – But They Don’t Have to Be

Commentary School board elections this year were more organized—and dirtier—than ever. Teachers’ unions ran sophisticated campaigns to elect slates of “progressive” trustees, complete with vitriolic attack websites, as angry parents began to organize in response to progressive excesses. Stakes are high: School boards control billions in public spending, and can indoctrinate children with their chosen…