Change Is Coming
Tag(s): Constitutional Amendment • events • marketing • parentalrights.org
Change is coming. No, I’m not talking about Barack Obama or John McCain (and aren’t you glad!). I’m talking about big changes in the works here at ParentalRights.org.
With Election Day tomorrow, voters across the country will choose not only a president, but the 111th Congress. Once that happens, we will get to know the new Congress and begin to work in earnest on pushing H.R. 97, the Parental Rights Amendment bill. We already have several very exciting plans and tools in the works that are almost ready for launch. For many of you, long months of sitting, waiting, wondering what you can do next, are almost over!
The first change many of you will notice is our new website, scheduled to make its debut on November 18. Those of you who have spoken to us at conferences or by phone in the last couple of months know we were aiming for November 4 (Election Day), but delays with our database forced us to push back the launch two weeks. Hey, this stuff happens to NASA all the time, right?
The new website will still contain a lot of the information you are used to finding at parentalrights.org, but better organized (we hope) to serve your needs. There is so much information, it is hard to keep it available and not overwhelming, but we hope to find the proper balance.
The site will also be better targeted to new visitors, making the need for the Amendment clearer and more powerful from the moment they first log on. It will be more streamlined, too, to “keep the main thing the main thing” and still help you find what you are looking for.
A second change is the moving of our weblog, and setting up new blogs over time. There is one very important reason for this: Parental Rights is a huge issue, covering a wide array of smaller sub-issues, and drawing the attention of a wide variety of people. Not all Parental Rights supporters are home-schooling conservatives worried about curriculum choice. Some are inner city unmarried minority moms whose children are being taken away by Social Services in disproportionate numbers. Some are divorced moms, or divorced dads, who have lost parental rights simply because their marriage fell apart. Parents come from Red states and Blue states; they’re Democrats, Republicans, Constitution Partiers and Independent Greens. Some parents don’t vote at all. But they are all parents, and they all have fundamental rights to direct the upbringing of their children in accordance with their values.
If all of these opinions from all of these angles on all of these topics converge on a single blog, things can get messy pretty quickly. We want our blogs to get people talking about Parental Rights, not how much they hate an opponent party or point-of-view. With that in mind, we want to set up blogs where people can come together and debate these individual issues, or just encourage and support one another, without the threat of splintering our common cause, which is the passing of the Parental Rights Amendment.
The third big change will be the trial launch of our 2×10 Action Plan, a forerunner of the full plan to be unveiled early next year. This grassroots movement will involve getting signatures in every Congressional District and building our grassroots power base so that every Senator and Congressman, regardless of experience, economic status, or party affiliation, will be forced to listen when we call for the passage of the Parental Rights Amendment. For those of you involved in this trial launch, you will have some very specific work to do. Those of you who are not yet a part of this will probably still see signs of it on our new website as things get underway.
One final change to our website will be what we call our “Activist Page”, a part of the site where you can go to “see the score”, so to speak. This page will start slow, and will evolve over time based on what kind of “game” we find ourselves in. But we plan to always keep it interesting, and keep on it a current tally of the numbers that matter at the time: petition signatures, 2×10 Representatives, House or Senate co-sponsors, and so forth. It will be kind of like watching election coverage in October, but hopefully much less annoying. Once the Amendment has passed Congress and gone to the States for ratification, the page will evolve to feature how we are doing in each individual state.
All of these changes make for an exciting time here at ParentalRights.org. We are launching a lot of new things this month, which also makes it a great time to encourage your friends and family to join! The 111th Congress is our target Congress to pass H.R. 97, and they will be chosen tomorrow. So gear up, friends – It’s time for kick-off!







I am a mother who had her right taken away but fought and won but still have no rights to my children that are now home. I see this a lot in the very little town i live in and i feel thing have to change and i am will to do what ever i can to help make things change so no more families go through what my entire family and i went through. The parents right amendment gives me hope and i am all aboard.
Nov 3 at 12:00 pm
I’m so glad that you are willing to find solutions that encourage debate without promoting schism. I feel we need to be wary of all the political correctness seeking to stifle our freedom of speech. I’ve watched this p.c. stifling happen in another online group I belong to, and it appalls me. Hurray for ParentalRights.org!
Nov 3 at 1:00 pm
Excellent!
Nov 3 at 1:22 pm
This is such an important endeavor… arguably, the most important fight of the decade. I am on board, all the way!
Nov 3 at 1:32 pm
Ohio Supreme court overrules a fit parents’ right to decide what’s in the best interest of his child.
Google “Harold v. Collier” to read the double talk. Decision gives State Courts the right to decide the best interest of a fit parents’ child. After 9 years due process is still being denied.
Sounds like help might be in the works and hope I can help.
Nov 3 at 9:02 pm
I feel like I am not safe in my own home and am subject to ongoing surprise inspection from the Government and have to be accountable for why I didn’t do the laundry this week. There are many children who are in need of help. Don’t clog the system with children who don’t.
Nov 4 at 2:28 am
we need more parents rights and less goverment control ,as long as your kids have healthy foods,clean clothing,medicail care as needed and are not being abused that is how god wants us to live that matters.
Nov 4 at 9:54 am
The government should have NO say so in taking rights away, there are more civilized ways to help families and their children. CPS is over stepping their boundaries, this needs to stop. No one should be given the right or authority to come into our homes and take our children.
Nov 4 at 8:01 pm
Not only do I feel that the government should have NO rights to our children, unless it is a case of intense abuse, I feel every parent should have to be clearly informed of the statutes involved in taking their children and what their rights are so they can be better equipt to fix the problem and get their kids back!! Parental Rights, help us fight the fight!!!! YEA!!!
Nov 5 at 4:57 pm
Let’s hope this is a change from the National Attitude, started many years ago, of Parens Patriae, ie let the government make family decisions.
I have only one vision: “Parents raise Families Not Laws” Think about it.
God Bless, Granpa Chuck, http://nfpcar.org
Nov 5 at 11:12 pm
i think there should be a bill sign that we who lost our children should get our children back and the people who are involved Judges,CPS workers,county attorney attorney,attorney General CASA,Guardian of litem should be proscudedand also theriaspist.
Nov 8 at 4:08 pm
I agree with Terry Rote who stated that every person involved in the unjust and illegal removals of children from their parents ought to be prosecuted and punished for their deeds. (Therapists and doctors included.)These people ought to be prosecuted especially if they were instrumental in the illegal termination of parental rights.
Please everyone pray for me as my case is going before the Washington State Court of Appeals. My rights were terminated to my son back in February of this year and I am appealing the ruling of the corrupt judge who made the erroneous ruling. (Kathleen O’Connor of Spokane Superior court.)
Nov 9 at 10:57 pm
This new proposed bill will strip parents of their rights and give them to the children. I ask you, what will the next generation turn out like if the children are allowed to raise themselves. I also am a home schooling mom, this will be the next step in eliminating home schooling so that the government can program our children to buy into whatever they feel is necessary to promote their cause.
Nov 10 at 2:37 pm
very good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nov 10 at 3:38 pm
yes we can only hope and pray let me know what i can doto help im in a thing with the evil c.p.s myself thay took my little girl from me. i have no money but i have a voice and the power of the pen so let me know , joe
Nov 10 at 8:56 pm
I agree with Stephanie. Public schools have been indoctrinating our children for generations now and I know so many parents were shocked how their young adult children chose to vote. They did not realize how much influence the schools had on their children all these years.
It is time for the government to allow parents to be the ones to instill morals, ethics, and values. Parents should educate their children about religion and politics.
I see socialism becoming desired by too many in this country and believe we are in danger. May the USA stand up against the lies of the world. Children don’t know best. Children should not be making all their own decisions. Why even have parents then? So parents are only supposed to financially support the children, but the children get to rule the household? Insanity.
Thank you for helping us unify to fight this absurd agenda.
Nov 10 at 9:01 pm
dont worry when the antichrist takes over
thousands and thousands of people
will be killed
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Nov 11 at 7:13 pm
THE UN RIGHTS OF THE CHILD IN CANADA
DESTROYS FAMILIES BY THE THOUSANDS
AT LEAST AMERICA HAS NOT TAKEN
THAT LAW ON THE BOOKS
Nov 11 at 7:15 pm
Many sites are starting to publish that treaties take precedence over our Amendments. I hope this is addressed in the new website design.
Nov 12 at 7:34 am
I got ahold of a Nancy Schaefer she is from Clarkesville Ga she is on theLegislative of Senator 50th District of Georgia she sent me a 8 page letter on THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES she stated to me written to me here is what she said she is working on this issue and put on report on how horribleit is this criminal tragedy must be brought to an end I called her you might want her address and phone number she will answer you it is Nancy Schaefer The Orchard 458 Yates Circle Clarkville Ga 30523 her phone number is 706-754-0000 get ahold of her she wants people story not just Georgia but all over.
Nov 13 at 5:36 pm
look at familyrights.us and fightcps.com
Nov 13 at 5:37 pm
I apologize in advance if these comments are too lengthy. Parental rights have become an unnecessarily complex subject in my opinion, and not enough parents are alarmed about it! I was very relieved to come across this site when researching the UN Child Rights issue. I only recently become aware of the UN Child Rights treaty and I oppose it for several reasons. However, I’ve known for years that CPS in most cases is NOT doing what is ‘best’ for the children, parents or the families involved. I believe that, as with other professions, easily corruptible people may be drawn to child services because of the power they wield through their jobs. Or, well-intentioned people get into the profession and then become corrupted by the ‘machine’ and its imperfections. Regardless, states have given CPS the ‘absolute power’ to separate families very easily and without due process in the name of protecting the child. This power was originally intended to protect children who were actually in IMMENTENT danger under the most egregious circumstances, and not as a regular course of administrative action as it is now often used. And to make matters worse, the process is INORDINATELY difficult for a parent to fight or reverse even in cases of blatant CPS abuse. I’m also very concerned about issues such as mandatory vaccinations and compulsory public education. I firmly believe that parents must be allowed to retain the right to rear their children as they see fit (within the boundaries of humane treatment), and that any interruptions of parental rights should be legally substantiated as true neglect or abuse, not just a difference of opinion regarding child-rearing values, parental responsibility, or what a public servant deems ‘best’ for the child. Those issues are much too subjective and can be manipulated to unjustified proportions against a parent. Diversity of culture is a good thing, not something that should be regulated out of our society by people who think that their way is the only correct way to do things. I think it is tragic that we now live in a country where parents are held legally, financially and even criminally responsible for our children’s actions, but we have little power to discipline, educate or affect their moral structure without intervention from the state—and we are forced to have our children pumped full of medications and vaccines that are actually harmful (why else would parents have to sign a consent form acknowledging that the vaccine may have harmful and even lethal side effects and waiving the legal right to hold the medical practice responsible?). Children’s morality is now being taught to them at school (sex education teaches our children about extremely sensitive issues such as homosexuality, birth control, and specific sexual practices even before the children would normally encounter those issues within their peer circles). Even the government acknowledges that the vast majority of parents treat their children humanely and respect them as individuals, and that children are not mature enough to make their own decisions or shape their own values or morals. Why then try to legislate and micromanage 100% of the parents when only a small percentage are at issue, and our criminal code already provides for accountability in that area? As parents we love our children and want to pass on OUR values. Is it then the state’s assertion that despite what traditions and values we wish to pass on to our children we must defer to the government and expose our children to information and processes that we believe will morally and physically harm them? Are we villains and radicals if we don’t want to leave something as important as the raising of our precious children to a bureaucracy that will never love them and often can’t even take care of itself? Flawed humans that we are, parents are still best equipped to know what is truly best for our children.
Nov 13 at 9:51 pm
In other countries where the government is more involved in people’s lives, the government at least makes a sincere effort to help. DSS fails to offer assistance where it is needed. If a parent suffers from depression, instead of getting that parent help, they make the problem worse by removing the children. I feel that if the government wants to take care of me and my family, then I am willing to give them a little more room for involvement in my home. There should always be limitations. Unfortunately, the US government takes too small of a role where it is needed and too large of a role where their authority can only be used as a means of harassment and terrorism, by less than ethical people. Any organization not held to the standards of the constitution and the legal system should not be recognized as legitimate. There is a reason, why we have due process of the law and a system of innocent until proven guilty. Failure to hold any organization to these same standards is to turn our back on centuries of wisdom and to corrupt the system.
Nov 14 at 4:39 pm
I think E. Pearson’s 11/14 is dead-on and brilliantly written. I completely agree with every word.
Nov 20 at 10:58 am
I think dcf have to much power We cant parent our kids any more with out them accuseing you of something.kids now day can get mad because they dont get what they want and away they go god help us all
Nov 21 at 5:32 pm
My Fiancee and I have a three year old son. We have recently been taken to court by the “in-laws” for Grandparents/Visitation Rights for OUR son. We no longer live with them and they were seeing him thurs-friday almost every weekend untill it became too much for our child that we decided every other weekend! How is it that as good parents to our child,have been forced to hire an attorney to protect our parents rights? The Grandparents asked for every other weekend, mid-weeek visits, and holiday time In Writing And Court Ordered! We were shocked that this could even happen to us and that anyone would even think that they had that right to OUR child! I cant believe we live in a society that our parental rights are vanishing and becoming more of judge ruling. Our son is happy, his father and i love eachother and we provide a happy home for him. We have a estranged relationship with my fiances’ side of the family now since ALL of them (aunts uncles cousins) petioned for the grandparents cause without ever knowing the true reason for us not living there, they have no clue what kind of people they are and how they treated me in their home. My fiance’ and i just want to love, raise and care for our child without any court orders telling us that we need to hand our child over to anyone at any given time! We want to have another child but we fear that we’ll be dragged to court again! This needs to stop its becuase were unmarried that we dont have rights! A parent is a parent regardless of marriage Thank You for this site its so helpfull.
Nov 30 at 2:37 pm
My husband died last November and we had a 5 month old child ,My husbands adopted Mother is seeking custody of my son because of a law in PA ,My mother in law saw our son a handful of times and now she wants to have weekends and holidays ,and legal say in his life.I am a good mother,she was a neglectful mother to her children and she has health issues.I have to defend myself and my child from a woman who has rights to file for custody because my husband died ,there is something very wrong here
Nov 30 at 10:40 pm