ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > The State vs. Families

Just say yes to Ritalin!
Source: Salon
Country: United States

Increasingly, school officials are threatening parents with the expulsion of their children from classes, or the seizure of kids from the home, if they don't agree to medication with Ritalin. (9/26/00)

Recommendations for reforming foster care and adoption
Source: TIPP
Author: Patrick S. Poole
State: TN, Country: United States
E-mail: 4you@tnpolicy.org

In depth study and analysis of reform options for adoption and foster care in Tennessee. Now a bit dated (February 1999), but still valid for research purposes. Adobe PDF file.

The economic assault of the welfare state on the traditional American family
Source: TPPF
Author: David A. Hartman
Country: United States

"In effect, each traditional family unit which productively supports itself is required to support the equivalent of another whole family in the form of government. As we would expect -- according to the maxim that you get less of what you tax and more of what you subsidize -- the percentage of individuals living in traditional family units is in a continuing and alarming decline." (3/97)

Doctor’s orders
Source: Reason
Author: Brian Doherty
Country: United States

Under pressure from government agencies, medical authorities are increasingly battling parents for control of children. (01/23/01)

Shots in the dark: who should decide which vaccinations children receive?
Source: Reason magazine
Author: Sue A. Blevins
Country: United States

Hepatitis B is usually transmitted through sex, intravenous drug use, and children born to infected mothers. And the vaccine for it produces more cases of the disease by itself than would occur naturally. So why is it being mandated for all children entering school?(7/99)

Children are being taken from blameless families
Source: TCB Chronicles
Country: United States

"Child protective agencies nationwide are forcibly removing more children from their homes even when the agencies' own investigations establish that the children have not been abused or neglected, according to reports submitted by state agencies to the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) during 1998." (7/00)

Child abuse or discipline?
Source: TCB Chronicles
Country: United States

Government agencies charged with protecting children's welfare have become notorious for removing children from homes not for clear abuse, but because of differences of opinion over discipline. (7/00)

How Congress can protect the right of parents to raise their children
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Patrick F. Fagan
Country: United States

Dated call for passage of a bill protecting family autonomy. But still makes valuable points: "Over the years, widely scattered and repeated attacks on the fundamental rights of parents have come from state and local courts; from federal, state, and local government bureaucracies and officials..." (1996)

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