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A family in New York State was threatened with scrutiny by a social worker because parents chose to homeschool their son, the Home School Legal Defense Association says. The dispute began in Mid-August when the unidentified family in the Minisink ...

The state of Indiana sent parents of children and teens a letter urging the use of a controversial vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease, and the action has upset more than a few parents. At least 305,000 families may have ...

There’s a new addition at some upstate New York schools that may make many parents uneasy. Workers from Erie County Child Protective Services (CPS) will have a physical presence in each school, monitoring children every week. “So, instead of having ...

Does becoming a foster parent mean you have to give up your Second Amendment rights? Perhaps, at least in some states. Rod and Kristi Beber had been model foster parents in Nevada for years, taking in more than 100 children, ...

Parents in one Georgia county can be arrested and tossed in jail for a month if their children miss too much school – even if the child is sick. Mother and substitute teacher Julie Giles was arrested because she did ...

Gardening is fun and it’s all the more so if you involve your kids. People often recollect the time they spent gardening with a parent or grandparent with much fondness. Francis Bacon called it “the purest of human pleasures.” Anyone ...

A Tennessee hospital has reportedly adopted a policy of using security guards to restrain parents as employees apply antibiotic ointment on newborn babies against the parents’ wishes. The policy is apparently designed to enforce what Chattanooga Times Free Press columnist ...

In the last few years, education has been under fire… and for good reasons. It seems like every time you turn around, you hear about schools with low ratings, states facing Common Core controversies, and even students walking out on ...

We know gardening is good for all ages, but how do we spark our children’s interest? Usually kids plus dirt equals disaster, but in this case, it could very well be what is needed to encourage a life-long love of ...

A Missouri couple says they lost custody of their 8-year-old son simply because they sought a second medical opinion about his weight. Tiffany and Jason Adams claim their son, Jaxon, was taken from them because of the recommendation of one ...