parental rights

I'm starting this thread continuing from here: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=12414676 It is my belief that both children and fathers are lacking in rights. For fathers: 1) paternal certainty 2) a choice to "opt out" of responsibility (child support) for...

Should the state have any say in what parents name their children? New Zealand apparently does:

A lot of people around the world are robbed, subjugated, tortured, and even murdered by despotic governments and/or totalitarian religious thugs. So it's a fine thing for a free nation to have a tradition of sheltering political refugees who are facing certain imprisonment or death at home for...

US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum While it seems a social issue at first glance, it's really doubly political: international, as well as the propriety of government demanding how you educate your children.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223528/Parents-banned-supervising-children-playgrounds--case-paedophiles.html Is it just me, or does it seem that more and more, governments are trying to take on the role of parents and incrementally squeezing actual parents out of the loop when it...

Why should Rifqa Bary stay in Florida, was she brain washed to join an islamic, ooops, I mean Cristian cult? What gives, parent's rights and all that? http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/osceola/orl-mike-thomas-rifqa-092209,0,5602933.column

A family who has given all their kids names related to Nazis has had their kids removed. (Although admittedly, the government hasn't said exactly why they were removed, nor whether the parents actually were racists, etc....) http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/01/14/8020031-ap.html ...state...

How many times do we have to be sickened by this sort of "parental" behaviour? http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gy_FocuLcPyslOqVeaOFan8yo7eQD8VLUSO01 I truly hope this couple is convicted of child abuse, and their other children are taken away from them.

This is a 3 1/2 page arguement paper I wrote for my college english class on father's rights and abortion. Just giving you a heads up on the length of it before you decide to read on. Abstract Women have many more reproductive and parental rights termination options than men, contrary to the...

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/miamiherald/living/people/women/13298084.htm?source=rss&channel=miamiherald_women a New Hampshire law that requires a minor to notify a parent before ending her pregnancy. Lower courts struck down the 2003 law, saying it was unconstitutional because there was...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=8&u=/ap/20041209/ap_on_re_us/parental_snooping "Striking a blow for rebellious teenagers, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that state law prohibits parents from eavesdropping on a child's phone conversations. " Guess this kind...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030506/ap_on_re_us/surgery_debate_5 From the article: Surgeons say 2-year-old Noshin Hoque will probably die within a year or two unless the tumor growing deep in her brain is removed. But the operation itself will probably kill her or leave...