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Bipartisan Coalition Letter to Protect Parental Rights
Dear Champion of Parental Rights, This morning United Family Advocates, the bipartisan coalition with whom we are working on family law reforms, put our finishing touches on a letter to Congress outlining things we hope to add and to avoid in the upcoming re-authorization of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA). The 16-page…
Read MoreParental Rights Amendment Introduced Today!
Dear Champion of Parental Rights, Rep. Jim Banks (IN-3) is introducing the Parental Rights Amendment in the U.S. House today, joined by fifteen cosponsors. Maggie McKneely is ParentalRights.org’s federal relations liaison on Capitol Hill. “Despite the negative, partisan atmosphere in DC right now,” Maggie reports, “the Parental Rights Amendment has garnered a lot of positive…
Read MoreMandatory Home Visits Coming to Oregon?
Dear Champion of Parental Rights, Are the headlines true? Are universal mandatory home visits coming to Oregon in the near future? At first read, it appears Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s latest budget proposal would introduce over the next six years a program of mandatory in-home visits for every family with a newborn child. Not just…
Read MoreParental Rights To Be Addressed in State Legislatures
Dear Champion of Parental Rights, State legislatures all over the country reconvened this week (or last), and in some of them the issue of parental rights is, if not front and center, at least high on the agenda. Sadly, in recent years many states have taken up bills that would further erode parental rights, such…
Read MoreWe Have A Sponsor for Parental Rights Amendment!
Dear Champion of Parental Rights, It’s time! Today is the day to call Congress in preparation for the introduction of the Parental Rights Amendment (PRA) in the U.S. House. Last month we met with Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), and he agreed wholeheartedly to become the lead sponsor of the Parental Rights Amendment in this new…
Read MoreWe Are Changing the Culture!
Dear Champion of Parental Rights, Thanks to you, we are doing something very few non-profits have accomplished in all of history: we are changing the culture for families in America. When a child services investigator knocked on my door on April Fool’s Day 2003, it was no joke. We had no idea who “called us…
Read MoreWe’re Getting Through!
What do a California school of social work, a vaccine apologist, and the government have in common? No, it’s not just that they’re the traditional enemies of parental rights. Rather, in the last two months ParentalRights.org has been invited into conversation with all of them! As a nation we see too many children suffer unnecessary…
Read MoreThank you! We Did It!
Thanks to you, we once again exceeded our goal for #GivingTuesday, and I don’t mean by a little. All told, this Giving Tuesday raised $30,733.50,including $2,140.00 to our educational arm, the Parental Rights Foundation. (Gifts to the Foundation can only be used for education regarding parental rights and policy, while the remaining gifts to ParentalRights.org…
Read MoreLast-Minute Matching Grant
Clarification: The last $2,000 grant earns money for Parental Rights Foundation, which means the money will go to education, not lobbying. However, we can earn that grant through your donation to either ParentalRights.org (which we can use to lobby) or the Foundation. Every three days, roughly 2,000 children are taken from their homes over allegations…
Read MoreBreaking: Grammy Winner Going Live at 3:00 Eastern
We have just received word that multiple-Grammy-winning singer/song writer and Motown Pastor Marvin Winans will be going live from Detroit with a special parental rights message at 3:00 today. The message will be in the form of a Facebook Live video from our ParentalRights.org Facebook page, the site also hosting our #GTRoadTrip throughout the day.…
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