PARENTAL RIGHTS
The right to direct the care and upbringing of your child is one of the most fundamental and longstanding constitutional rights. The Fourteenth Amendment provides that no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” U.S. Const. Art. XIV. Parental rights are protected under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Today, governments continually seek to replace the role of parents. For instance, liberal states are now passing laws preventing parents from being involved in their child’s medical decisions as it relates to life-altering gender reassignment treatment and surgeries. School districts are now preventing teachers from speaking to parents about issues pertaining to their child’s sexual orientation. Schools are even forcing children to read pornographic materials with no educational value.
As our culture becomes increasingly devoid of God, it is more important than ever to ensure parents are responsible for caring, raising, and educating their children. Proverbs 22:6 instructs parents to “[t]rain up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”