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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Seth Leibsohn: An Assault on the Fundamental Right of Parents
Description: The California legislature just passed a bill requiring that a child’s choice of his or her gender identity shall be taken into consideration in custody cases. If a parent does not agree with the child’s views, the courts are to take that into account when deciding whether or not parents are fit to keep their own child. Not only is this an assault on the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, it is an ideological power-grab of the state over and against family autonomy, an ideological interruption of natural child-rearing, and...