Friday, September 13, 2024

How Can We Protect Parental Rights?

Families are stronger when parents understand and fulfill their parental responsibilities, and strong families strengthen communities, states, and nations. However, families grow weaker when government takes over parental responsibilities.

According to Elizabeth (Troutman) Mitchell, a widowed mother lost her then-14-year-old daughter to the foster care system of California in 2016. Years later, the daughter regretted her attempts to transition, and her mother is raising a warning voice to other parents about allowing their minor children to “make irreversible changes to their bodies.” By the time that the daughter reached the age of 22, the mother and daughter were good friends, but their journey was far from easy. Mitchell wrote of the journey as follows. 

The mother of two, whose husband had died years earlier, was accused of emotional abuse for forbidding her teenage daughter from binding her chest and wearing male clothes. Her daughter was taken from the family and placed in a foster home for a few months….


The Daily Signal reviewed Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services documentation in which a social worker, referring to the then-14-year-old with he/him pronouns and a male name, details the daughter’s time in foster care, her accusations of emotional abuse against her mother, and her later renunciation of the claims.


The mother had to hire lawyers to regain custody of her daughter and clear her name of the abuse charges. The charges would have disqualified her from continuing to pursue a career as a Christian counselor.


After a few months in a packed foster home in a dangerous neighborhood, the daughter asked to come home. She admitted to lying about the abuse, saying that she got the idea to accuse her mother of abuse from people online who said that was the ticket to getting away from her family….


The mother hired two attorneys to get her teenager back and clear her name. She said she felt like Child Protective Services was looking for reasons to tear her family apart….


After the daughter returned home, she called social workers on her mother a few more times, accusing her mom of abuse for refusing to buy her male clothing. The mother received a California Child Abuse Central Index (CACI) violation for declining to take her daughter to a program at the Los Angeles LGBT Center for LBGTQ+ youths ages 2-25 called Rise….


At age 17, the daughter admitted to getting a prescription for testosterone from a therapist behind her mom’s back. She took it for a few days, but she told her mom she felt God was telling her to stop.


The mom said she couldn’t have gotten through the difficult time without her faith community. She left California a few years ago, partially because of how her parental rights were disrespected there….


This is not the first time the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services has taken a daughter away from her mother over transgender ideology….

Some states, such as California and Minnesota, are passing laws that allow the government to end parental rights over transgender issues. There is much information on the internet, and youth today are technically savvy in finding it. They are also quite capable of keeping such information secret from their parents until they are well indoctrinated in whatever topic that they are researching.

Wise parents will keep communication channels open with their children and be a safe place where their children can take their concerns and questions. Questions should also be wary of any distance that their child is putting between them. Parents must be aware of politicians who will aid in destroying parental rights and cast their votes for only those who will protect parental rights.

The family is the core unit of society in time and in eternity. We must protect the family and family responsibilities. We must support those individuals and organizations that support the family. We can keep our families strong, and strong families will strengthen our communities, states, and nations.

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