Children's Rights
Parental Custody Rights, Homeschooling, Religiosity, Views on “LGBTQ+ Community,” and More
Reed v. Reed, an appeal decided Wednesday by the Pennsylvania Superior Court (Judge Mary Jane Bowes, joined by Judges Mary Murray and Jill Beck), involved a paternal grandfather seeking shared legal custody and partial…
10 times that 2025 tried to stop kids from growing up
Free-range parents may remember 2025 as the year that proved just how hard it still is to give kids any independence. There were arrests, investigations, panics, and new rules that seemed designed to keep childhood on…
N.Y. State Police Attempt to Get “Red Flag” Gun Ban Order Against 11-Year-Old Girl Was “Legally Frivolous,” “Needlessly Risk[ed] Further Injury”
From N.Y. State Police v. K.L., decided by Ulster County (N.Y.) trial court judge Julian Schreibman on Dec. 12: Often referred to as the "Red Flag Law," Article 63-A created ERPOs . Although an ERPO is a…
Mother’s Telling Children She Thinks Thor Actor Chris Hemworth Is Their “Spiritual Father” Didn’t Preclude Award of Custody to Her
A short excerpt from the long opinion in Trent v. Trent, decided today by Nebraska Court of Appeals Judge Michael Pirtle, joined by Judges Lawrence Welch and PaTricia Freeman; the court affirmed the trial court's grant…
Americans need more and better ‘third places.’ User fees can help.
America is lonelier than ever. Recent surveys find that nearly half of Americans report feeling lonely, and 21 percent express experiencing "serious loneliness." Close friendships are also in free fall across the…
Court Allows Mother’s Relocation with Son to Saudi Arabia Because Son and Both Parents Are Muslim
In Coffee County (Alabama) Circuit Court Judge Henry T. Reagan II's decision Nov. 19 in Wasmiah v. Raymond, a divorcing "husband request a court order preventing the wife from relocating the minor child to Saudi…
Court Allows Mother’s Relocation with Son to Saudi Arabia, Partly Because Son and Both Parents Are Muslim
In Coffee County (Alabama) Circuit Court Judge Henry T. Reagan II's decision Nov. 19 in Wasmiah v. Raymond, a divorcing "husband request a court order preventing the wife from relocating the minor child to Saudi…
Tradwives are feminists, too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJgXVrbuLbA When Millennials invented the girlboss, Gen Z responded with the tradwife, complete with homemade Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereals and BMIs of 18 after popping out a half-dozen kids. …
W. Va. High Court on Placing Children with Amish Foster Families
From Thursday's decision in In re M.B. (written by Chief Justice William Wooton): M.B.'s Right to Formal Education Past the Eighth Grade We begin by recognizing that this issue is unique: whereas the relevant…
An Indiana mom left her kids home for an hour. Her husband’s ex-wife called CPS.
Since this summer, Indiana mom of three and stepmom of two Hannah Bright has had three calls made to child protective services about her by her husband's ex-wife—all for activities that posed no danger to the kids.…
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