{"id":1729032,"date":"2022-11-08T06:09:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1729032"},"modified":"2022-11-08T06:17:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:17:49","slug":"how-safe-are-your-parental-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-safe-are-your-parental-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"How Safe Are Your Parental Rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-safe-are-your-parental-rights%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1729032&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pexels-ben-mack-5707681-e1667844113967.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Michigan voters will decide Tuesday whether children in that state can obtain puberty blockers at Planned Parenthood facilities without parental consent.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/12\/michigan-is-hiding-a-childrens-constitutional-right-to-genital-amputation-in-its-abortion-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Proposal 3<\/a> would also give Michigan children a constitutional right to be castrated or surgically sterilized \u2014 again, without the consent of a parent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Parental rights have become a fiercely contested battleground.\u00a0Historically, your right to determine what\u2019s in the best interest of your child has gone without question.\u00a0It\u2019s the oldest, most fundamental liberty we know, enshrined in <a href=\"https:\/\/parentalrightsfoundation.org\/legal\/parental_rights_history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">legal doctrine since 1690.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But too often today, ideology determines whether your parental rights will actually stand in court. If a parent opposes her child\u2019s desire to pretend to be the opposite sex, courts increasingly treat that parent\u2019s rights as expendable. The sexual confusion of children overshadows parents\u2019 rights to remain in their children\u2019s lives as a potent force.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a courtroom down the hall, however, the rights of neglectful or drug-abusing parents are treated with kid gloves, under the theme of family preservation. Activist courts stand ready to protect your parental rights, but only when your narrative matches their own.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018I\u2019m God in this Case\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Less than a year ago, Abigail Shrier shocked <a href=\"https:\/\/abigailshrier.substack.com\/p\/child-custodys-gender-gauntlet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">readers with her story<\/a> of a California judge who stripped a father of his parental rights because he showed insufficient support for performing\u00a0irreversible medical procedures on his sex-confused son.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These cases are popping up <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2018\/02\/20\/ohio-judge-strips-custody-parents-not-letting-daughter-taking-trans-hormones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all around the country<\/a>. Sexual ideology is becoming the governing factor in a child\u2019s placement, trumping the will and the voice of a parent.\u00a0In a state whose governor was elected on a parental rights platform, Virginia Del. Elizabeth Guzman brazenly <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/amp\/news\/crisis-in-the-classroom\/lgbtq-students-parents-schools-education-child-protective-services-felony-glenn-youngkin-jason-miyares-lesbian-gay-transgender-charges-virginia-sexual-orientation-gender-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">introduced a bill<\/a> that would charge a parent who fails to affirm a child\u2019s \u201csexual orientation or gender identity\u201d with a felony.\u00a0In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom recently <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/shocking-perverse-incentives-in-sb?utm_source=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signed legislation<\/a> that makes his state a \u201crefuge\u201d for trans-identifying minors who seek irreversible medical procedures.\u00a0<em>Just make it to the Golden State \u2026 and there is nothing your objecting parents can do.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One case in the sleepy university town of Charlottesville, Virginia, provides some insight into how a parent can suddenly get framed as \u201cthe bad parent\u201d in a custody battle, merely for questioning a child\u2019s sexual confusion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Schultz told me she spent more than a half-million dollars trying to retain joint custody of her 15-year-old daughter who first claimed she was bisexual and then began to question her sex. Schultz pled for a \u201cwait and see\u201d approach and for the right to have an influence in her daughter\u2019s maturing adolescence.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Sarah\u2019s ex-husband\u2019s earlier fentanyl overdose, she says, a judge gave primary custody of the daughter to her dad, who permitted both bisexual and heterosexual sleepovers. In the past four years, Schultz has seen her daughter fewer than five times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schultz said the appointed guardian ad litem viewed her faith as a threat to her daughter\u2019s emerging sexuality.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m God in this case,\u201d Schultz recalled her daughter\u2019s guardian ad litem saying. The court saw her daughter as a girl in an \u201cauthentic process to discover her identity,\u201d Schultz explained, while the father was commendable because he was \u201callowing her sexuality to blossom.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Courts often use the \u201csafety of the child\u201d as a guise to award custody to a parent who mirrors the left\u2019s narrative. Note the irony here. How can you be a good parent unless you are willing to oppose something harmful your child thinks she wants at the time?\u00a0A teenager sees hormones and irreversible surgeries as a mirage of liberation. A concerned parent sees what a disfigured body and the inability to have children will mean 10 years from now. <\/p>\n<h2>A Pernicious Double Standard<\/h2>\n<p>Treatment of parental rights in the world of foster care and adoption, meanwhile, is a vastly different story.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A mother can give birth to a baby who spends two months in the NICU, crying for endless hours as he detoxes from the heroin his mother ingested during pregnancy, and she or her mother can still take the baby home. Parental rights are treated as sacrosanct, even though <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.wm.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1768&#038;context=wmborj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most of the maltreatment<\/a> of children actually occurs at the hands of parents or their paramours.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cFamily preservation\u201d is the holy grail courts and welfare agencies pursue, often at the expense of the actual safety of children. As Naomi Schaefer Riley explains in her book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowaytotreatachildbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No Way To Treat A Child,<\/a>\u201d\u00a0\u201cchild welfare workers and family-court judges \u2026 believe that foster care, to the extent that it should be used at all, is an endless holding pattern for a child while parents get their affairs in order.\u201d Sadly, many never do.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to preserve parental rights, children languish in care for years. The common complaint in foster care is \u201cthe clock.\u201d Though a child is legally eligible for adoption after <a href=\"https:\/\/adoptioninchildtime.org\/bondingbook\/summary-of-the-adoption-and-safe-families-act-of-1997-pl-105-89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">roughly two years in care<\/a>, drug-abusing parents can play out the clock, attend a few recovery meetings, fulfill a requirement or two on the reunification plan \u2014 and the clock starts over. Many children age out of the possibility of adoption because the court favors parental rights over children\u2019s attachment needs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>The Use and Abuse of Parental Rights<\/h2>\n<p>Given the current capricious approach of many courts, the question to ask is: Just how safe are your parental rights? If the issues at hand are related to your child\u2019s confusion about his sex, then your parental rights can be bargained away in court far too easily.\u00a0But if the court frames those rights as a matter of \u201cfamily preservation,\u201d they are nearly carved in stone.<\/p>\n<p>The contrast between how parental rights are viewed, depending on the left-wing bias of courts and state agencies, should disturb everyone.\u00a0The right of conscientious parents to shape their child\u2019s life is among the most cherished of all human freedoms. That right is increasingly threatened, as the militancy of transgender ideology invades the private realm of parent and child.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0How safe are your parental rights then? <em>Only as safe as the left wants them to be.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Paula Rinehart, LCSW, is a therapist in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the author of the book &#8220;Sex and the Soul of a Woman.&#8221; She writes about family and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan voters will decide Tuesday whether children in that state can obtain puberty blockers at Planned Parenthood facilities without parental consent.\u00a0Proposal 3 would also give Michigan children a constitutional right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1728438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1728438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}