Children's Rights
The CHAT act won’t protect kids, but it might break the internet.
Congress is quietly drifting toward an ID-verified internet. The Children Harmed by AI Technology (CHAT) Act of 2025 is Washington's newest attempt to regulate speech through mandatory age checks. Rather than protecting…
Parental Rights Over Children’s Religious Practice
From two interesting (and little-known) 1840s American cases that point in somewhat different directions. In Commonwealth v. Armstrong, 1 Pa. L.J. Rep. 146 (Ct. Quarter Sess. Lycoming County 1842) (Lewis, J., apparently…
Pennsylvania mom placed on child abuse registry for letting 13-year-old babysit
When single mom of two and home health aide Alice (a pseudonym) needed to run a brief errand, she tasked her 13-year-old brother (whom she is also the caretaker for) with babysitting her nearly 1-year-old child. For this, she…
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