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Are You On Board?
Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday, and your Parental Rights Foundation and ParentalRights.org are poised to make it our biggest day of giving ever! This year, generous supporters have pledged to match up to $45,000 in gifts. That means that for every dollar given, ParentalRights.org or the Parental Rights Foundation will receive $2. That’s why we’ve set our…
Read MoreGiving Thanks
As we enter this holiday season, we at ParentalRights.org and the Parental Rights Foundation have so much to be thankful for! We are thankful for this year’s successes in protecting parental rights, like the new Parents’ Bill of Rights passed in Florida that went into effect on July 1. ParentalRights.org was in the forefront in…
Read MoreParentalRights.org, Foundation Introduce New President
We are pleased to announce that on November 29, 2021, William A. Estrada, Esq., will be joining the Parental Rights Foundation (PRF) and ParentalRights.org as our first-ever full-time president. ParentalRights.org founder Mike Farris served in a part-time capacity from 2006 until 2017, when he became president and CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom. Jim Mason succeeded…
Read MoreNOLA Case Shows Need for Reforms
“The parents here did exactly what medical professionals ask a new parent to do: if you find something strange with your infant, report it.” So wrote New Orleans Juvenile Judge Mark Doherty in a recent case that nevertheless put two innocent young parents on the state’s child abuse registry. Specifically, new mother Tess Strickland noticed…
Read MoreALEC: The Time Is Now to Halt Anonymous Child Abuse Reports
According to national figures, nearly 3.5 million children are the subject of a Child Protective Services (CPS) investigation each year. Only 17% of these investigations result in a finding of abuse or neglect. In 83% of these cases, the investigation is closed as unfounded or unsubstantiated. Among anonymous reports to child abuse hotlines, that number…
Read MoreMust See Parents’ Rights Video
On Saturday, August 28, Parental Rights Florida and the other champions of their recently passed Parents’ Bill of Rights celebrated the victory together. Part of their dinner included this eight-minute video of their accomplishment. The Florida Parents’ Bill of Rights demonstrates what can happen when the right people grab hold of the right idea at…
Read MoreEmpowering Volunteers to Bring Change to the States
I was sitting at my desk on a Monday morning in 2009, skimming the news for parental rights stories, when I got a call from someone I’d never met. Her name was Teri: she was a concerned mother in Oklahoma, and she had just heard then ParentalRights.org president Michael Farris on a radio show over…
Read MoreBig News! Florida Passes Parents’ Bill of Rights
In our largest 2021 parental rights victory to date, the Florida legislature passed House Bill 241, the Parents’ Bill of Rights, on Thursday, April 22. The measure passed the House by a vote of 78 to 37 on April 1, while a bill with the same content, S.B. 582, worked its way through the Senate.…
Read MoreParentalRights.org and The Parental Rights Foundation
ParentalRights.org is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit political action organization. We work to pass legislation that will protect families by preserving parental rights, stop legislation that endangers those rights, and generally raise awareness of these issues in the public eye. The Parental Rights Foundation is a related 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The Foundation does not promote legislation, but instead…
Read MoreHappy New Year from ParentalRights.org
After an unusually long year, ParentalRights.org would like to wish you and your loved ones a Happy 2021!! May you find peace and joy as we start the year ahead. Warmly, Michael RameyExecutive
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