Children's Rights
Atlanta mom let her son ride to the park alone. Georgia called it neglect.
With schools closed for Election Day 2025, Mallerie Shirley's 6-year-old son was riding his electric scooter to and from the local playground—about a third of a mile away—on the bike trail just outside their Atlanta…
Should Child Protective Services Intervene More?
Naomi Schaefer Riley and Martin Guggenheim debate the resolution, "Government-run child protective services should intervene more in the lives of children." For the affirmative is Riley, a senior fellow at the…
Ninth Circuit Suspends Injunction Blocking California Policy Limiting Teachers’ Disclosure to Parents of Student’s Changed Gender Identity
A short excerpt from the Ninth Circuit's order yesterday in Mirabelli v. Bonta (Chief Judge Mary Murguia, joined by Judges Andrew Hurwitz and Salvador Mendoza): Plaintiff-Appellees are four parents and four Escondido…
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…
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