09/20/2022
Parental Rights in Peril
Edited by Stephen M. Krason
Publisher: Franciscan University Press, Steubenville, Ohio
Parental rights have been a significant issue in American life and law for decades. To a significant degree, the undermining of and attacks on parental rights have been the result of the weakening of the family due to numerous reasons and, indeed, the attempt to undercut the family’s character and authority--even to the point of trying to change the meaning of what is a family--in American thinking, public policy, and law. While the assault on parental rights has been persistent and pronounced for some time now, it often goes unnoticed for these very reasons of the marginalization and undermining of the family and also because there is more public and scholarly attention to other rights, such as those explicitly spelled out in the Bill of Rights. It was the crucial nature of parental rights and awareness of the serious attempts to undermine them in various arenas and ways in contemporary American life that motivated the organizing of the major conference on Parental Rights at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio on October 15-16, 2021. Indeed, certain of the co-sponsoring entities of the conference have as their purpose or one of their purposes protecting parental rights and insuring that they are upheld. Besides the Department of Political Science and Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at the University, the other co-sponsors were the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, which is headquartered at the University, the Alliance Defending Freedom, Homeschool Legal Defense Association, and ParentalRights.org/Parental Rights Foundation. The conference speakers--whose papers that were presented at the conference appear in this book--are noted authorities in the areas of parental rights that they address. This book is quite comprehensive in addressing many leading areas and topics in parental rights, beginning with the philosophical, historical, and legal background and then examining the nature of the multi-faceted assault on parental rights in our time.
Contents of the book:
Who Has the Primary Responsibility for the Rearing and Education of Children? by Patrick Lee
A Legal Overview and History Regarding Parental Rights in the United States by Michael P. Donnelly
The Welfare State, the Family, and Parental Rights by Patrick Fagan
Parental Rights and Decisions about Minor Children’s Health Care by Mary Rice Hasson Parental Rights and Abortion by Anne Hendershott
Transgenderism’s Assault on Parental Rights by Michelle Cretella Parental Rights in Public Education by Chuck Lokiko and George Ash
The Assault on Parental Rights by S*x Education in the Schools by Cathy Ruse
In Defense of Homeschooling: A Response to Professor Bartholet and the Recent Academic Critics of Parents’ Rights to Educate their Children by James R. Mason
The Weakening of the Family in America and How It Has Undermined Parental Rights by Allan
C. Carlson
Immutable Traits: Blackness, Poverty, and the CPS by Allison Folmar
False Child Abuse Allegations, the Child Protective System, and the Threat to Parental Rights by Stephen M. Krason
Parental Rights in the United States and Internationally: The Right to Determine the Values Taught to One’s Child
by Michael Farris About the Authors:
Patrick Lee, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Center for Bioethics, Franciscan University of Steubenville
Michael P. Donnelly, Esq., is Senior Counsel and Director of Global Outreach, Home School Legal Defense Association
Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D. is Director, Marriage and Family Research Institute at The Catholic University of America
Mary Rice Hasson, Esq., is the Kate O’Beirne Fellow in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center
Anne Hendershott, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology and Director, Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville
Michelle Cretella, M.D. is a pediatrician spokesperson for the John Paul II Medical Research Institute, and the immediate past Executive Director of the American College of Pediatricians
George Ash, Ed.D. is Associate Professor of Graduate Education and Chairman of the Education Department at Franciscan University of Steubenville
Charles Kokiko, Ed.D. is Superintendent of the Jefferson County (Ohio) Educational Service Center
Cathy Ruse, Esq. is with the Dominion Law Group
James R. Mason, Esq., is President of the Home School Legal Defense Association and was formerly President of ParentalRights.org/Parental Rights Foundation
Allan C. Carlson, Ph.D., is President emeritus, Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society Allison Folmar, Esq., is a civil rights attorney in Detroit, Michigan
Stephen M. Krason, Esq., Ph.D., is Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at Franciscan University of Steubenville and President of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists
Michael P. Farris, Esq., is President of the Alliance Defending Freedom
The book is scheduled to be published in November 2022. The cost of the book is $40. Pre- publication orders can be made through Amazon.
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