Category: parents

Capitol Report (Sept. 26): WH Responds to Biden’s Low Approval; CCP Ambassador Attempts to Influence US Lawmakers

A new poll finds a majority of Democrats don’t want President Joe Biden to be the party’s 2024 presidential nominee. How is the White House responding? Is the recession worsening? Signals are intensifying as a key economic gauge drops for the sixth straight month. To discuss the latest economic trends and how the federal government…


Culture War Erupts in Texas Town Over Drag Bingo Event Hosted by Christian Church

Katy, TEXAS—Outside a drag bingo event hosted by a pro-LGBT church in Texas, a microcosm of America’s culture war played out with liberals and conservatives screaming at each other across a boulevard on Saturday. About 300 Texas conservatives lined an entire block to protest the First Christian Church in Katy, which sponsored a sold-out family…


Parents Take Their 4 Kids on Year-Long World Tour Before 3 Lose Their Vision From Rare Genetic Disease

The parents of four children under 12—three of whom are diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that could leave them blind in the future—have embarked on a year-long, round-the-world tour to fill their children’s minds with rich visual memories. Montreal-based couple Edith Lemay and Sebastien Pelletier noticed that their eldest daughter, Mia, began showing signs…


Parents Want Gay Sex How-To Book Removed from Texas School District

Parents in Katy, Texas, are pushing school libraries to remove books with sexual content, including one with step-by-step instructions on how to have gay sex and use sex apps to find partners. The book was featured on The Katy Railway, an Instagram site fighting to remove sexualized content from schools in the highly-rated Katy ISD…


Capitol Report (Sept. 22): Texas Governor Declares Cartels ‘Terrorists’; Democrats, Republicans Clash Over Police Reform

Long-awaited action on police reform unfolds in Congress: a package of bills that Democrats say is the answer to rising crime, but Republicans say the timing is telling. We spoke with Idaho Congressman Russ Fulcher about the Democrats’ efforts to fund the police and what he is hearing from the American people in his state…


California Teachers Union Conducted Research Targeting Parent Group, Emails Show

Recent emails that were revealed through a public records request show that California Teachers Association (CTA) conducted opposition research targeting Parent Association, a grassroots parent group that worked to get schools reopened during pandemic lockdowns. Opposition research is the practice of collecting information on a political opponent or other adversary that can be used to…


California Teachers Union Ran Opposition Research on Parents Seeking to Reopen Schools, Emails Show

The largest teachers’ union in California apparently conducted political opposition research on parents who fought and won a legal battle to keep their local schools open, newly surfaced emails suggest. California Teachers Association (CTA), a labor union boasting a membership of 310,000, advocated keeping schools closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. In December 2020, it demanded…


Woman Adopted as a Newborn Meets Birth Parents After Almost 2 Decades: ‘They Chose My Family’

Hannah Jennings’s birth parents were young high schoolers when they had her, back in 1999. At a tender age themselves, they kept the pregnancy a secret. The teen parents did what they felt was best for their baby: placing her with adoptive parents, and hoping they’d give her the life she deserved. Eighteen years later,…


The Song of the Birds (1935)

A destructive little boy with an air rifle shoots a baby bird and is mortified when the bird’s parents, and all the other birds, go into mourning. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it…


‘This Is About Power’ Critical Race Theory Trainer Tells Pennsylvania Educators

Far-right white people are in a moral panic over Critical Race Theory (CRT) because they fear losing political power. These are the sentiments taught to Pennsylvania educators about parents who attend board meetings in opposition to CRT. The training was a webinar presented by Justice Leaders Collaborative, a Michigan-based social justice training organization that did…