United States Supreme Court Parental Rights CaseLaw « How Child Protection Services Buys and Sells Our Children
United States Supreme Court
Parental Rights Caselaw
In the early 1920s, the United States Supreme Court first reviewed the rights, liberties and obligations of parents to direct the upbringing of their children. Two important decisions, Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters, established a legacy which was followed by a series of decisions holding that parenting is a fundamental constitutional right, and among “the basic civil rights of man.”Choices about marriage, family life, and the upbringing of children are among those rights the Court has ranked as “of basic importance in our society,” and as sheltered by the 14th Amendment against the State’s unwarranted usurpation, disregard, or disrespect.
Assembled here are a majority of those cases defining or reaffirming these fundamental rights. Links are provided to each case on the FindLaw Internet Legal Resources service. Each is in hypertext format, with links to related opinions of the court contained in the ruling.
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Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities: Statistics and Interventions
Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities: Statistics and Interventions
Series: Numbers and Trends
Author(s): Child Welfare Information Gateway
Year Published: 2010
Despite the efforts of the child protection system, child maltreatment fatalities remain a serious problem.1 Although the untimely deaths of children due to illness and accidents have been closely monitored, deaths that result from physical assault or severe neglect can be more difficult to track because the perpetrators, usually parents, are less likely to be forthcoming about the circumstances. Intervention strategies targeted at solving this problem face complex challenges.
Series: Numbers and Trends
Author(s): Child Welfare Information Gateway
Year Published: 2010
Despite the efforts of the child protection system, child maltreatment fatalities remain a serious problem.1 Although the untimely deaths of children due to illness and accidents have been closely monitored, deaths that result from physical assault or severe neglect can be more difficult to track because the perpetrators, usually parents, are less likely to be forthcoming about the circumstances. Intervention strategies targeted at solving this problem face complex challenges.
Immigration system splits families-My grandson Austin Knightly is Proof
Immigration system splits families - San Antonio Express-News
My grandson's father was deported to Honduras when he was a newborn. He was never notified his son was in state custody. Nashua, NH DCYF chose to terminate the right's of a fictitious man from Nashua, NH, with the same name, instead of notifying Austin's father, whom DCYF had ALL pertinent information, which included his Social Security , number, address, phone number and date of birth. The reasoning behind this grave miscarriage of justice; it was easier to terminate Austin's mother's right's if they didn't have to deal with Austin's REAL father. Austin has since been ILLEGALLY adopted, granted by the infamous Judge James Patten of the Hillsborough County Court in Nashua, knowing full well, Austin's father's right's were NEVER terminated.
Austin's cousin Isabella's father's right's were NEVER terminated either. Again Nashua DCYF chose a fictitious man as Isabella's father, in which Judge Patten refused him a Paternity test and custody, also knowing full well, he also was NOT Isabella's father. Judge Patten also granted the ILLEGAL adoption of Isabella Knightly.
Viewed in a certain context, the disruptions that 4-year-old Emily Ruiz suffered when she was unwittingly caught up in an immigration debacle were tame compared to the treatment of many other families with mixed immigration status.
My grandson's father was deported to Honduras when he was a newborn. He was never notified his son was in state custody. Nashua, NH DCYF chose to terminate the right's of a fictitious man from Nashua, NH, with the same name, instead of notifying Austin's father, whom DCYF had ALL pertinent information, which included his Social Security , number, address, phone number and date of birth. The reasoning behind this grave miscarriage of justice; it was easier to terminate Austin's mother's right's if they didn't have to deal with Austin's REAL father. Austin has since been ILLEGALLY adopted, granted by the infamous Judge James Patten of the Hillsborough County Court in Nashua, knowing full well, Austin's father's right's were NEVER terminated.
Austin's cousin Isabella's father's right's were NEVER terminated either. Again Nashua DCYF chose a fictitious man as Isabella's father, in which Judge Patten refused him a Paternity test and custody, also knowing full well, he also was NOT Isabella's father. Judge Patten also granted the ILLEGAL adoption of Isabella Knightly.
Viewed in a certain context, the disruptions that 4-year-old Emily Ruiz suffered when she was unwittingly caught up in an immigration debacle were tame compared to the treatment of many other families with mixed immigration status.
Judge reverses conviction in child abuse case-Who paid off the Judge?
Judge reverses conviction in child abuse case - Local News
WINCHESTER -- A judge found a Pennsylvania woman guilty Monday of abusing her foster child -- then reversed the conviction the next day.
WINCHESTER -- A judge found a Pennsylvania woman guilty Monday of abusing her foster child -- then reversed the conviction the next day.
Will New Hampshire Ever Follow Maine's New Foster Care Changes Placing Children With Family First?
ME foster care system experiences big change | wlbz2.com
PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- In the past 10 years, the Department of Health and Human Services has had a major change in thinking when it comes to the foster care system.
It used to be that family members were the last place DHHS would turn when a child had to be taken away from parents. And re-unification was not necessarily the goal. Not anymore.
PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- In the past 10 years, the Department of Health and Human Services has had a major change in thinking when it comes to the foster care system.
It used to be that family members were the last place DHHS would turn when a child had to be taken away from parents. And re-unification was not necessarily the goal. Not anymore.
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