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Parental Rights Constitutional Amendment Updates

2025-05-29T15:36:18+00:00

Read HJR 112 Read SJR 34 Latest Update May 23rd: Passed both chambers; will appear on the November 4, 2025, ballot. May 14th: The Parental Rights Constitutional Amendment has passed the Texas House and the Texas Senate, marking a major step toward securing lasting protections for families. This historic constitutional amendment now requires one final procedural vote in the Senate before heading to the ballot for a statewide vote in November. April 9th: The Parental Rights Amendment was voted out of the House Judicial and Civil Jurisprudence Committee with a unanimous vote. March [...]

Parental Rights Constitutional Amendment Updates2025-05-29T15:36:18+00:00

Understanding Section (b) in the Parental Rights Amendment

2025-04-08T01:52:07+00:00

Read SJR 34 What does a Parental Rights Amendment do?  A Parental Rights Amendment is the best way to ensure parental rights are protected for future generations. Right now, the rights of Texas parents rest almost entirely in the hands of unelected federal judges, who come and go regularly and could change their minds on parental rights at any time. Passing a Parental Rights Amendment to the Texas Constitution is critical to the protection of parental rights in Texas for two reasons. First, passing a Parental Rights Amendment to the Texas Constitution would significantly shrink the power of the federal [...]

Understanding Section (b) in the Parental Rights Amendment2025-04-08T01:52:07+00:00

The numbers show a child welfare revolution in Texas

2025-04-04T00:58:02+00:00

Originally published by the Dallas Morning News on April 1, 2025 Texas removes 10,000 fewer children per year than in 2018, but protects more of them from abuse and neglect than ever before. In 2015, U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack declared that the conditions for children in the Texas foster care system were so bad that it represented a violation of the children’s constitutional rights. Texas children, she wrote, had been “shuttled throughout a system where rape, abuse, psychotropic medication, and instability are the norm,” and where children “often age out of care more damaged than when they entered.” Ten years [...]

The numbers show a child welfare revolution in Texas2025-04-04T00:58:02+00:00

Fighting for Families: Legislative Progress on Parental Rights

2025-03-24T00:59:43+00:00

As the Texas legislative session progresses, the Family Freedom Project (FFP) continues to champion critical bills designed to strengthen parental rights and reform flawed child welfare laws. Here’s a look at the key legislation FFP has worked with lawmakers and other like-minded organizations and and update on where these bills currently stand. Parental Rights Amendment Passes Senate Floor (SJR 34/HJR 112) And Is Heard in House Committee The Parental Rights Amendment, SJR 34/HJR 112, is making significant strides, having passed through the Texas Senate. If approved by the House and subsequently ratified, this amendment would enshrine parental rights in the [...]

Fighting for Families: Legislative Progress on Parental Rights2025-03-24T00:59:43+00:00

The Evelyn Boatright Case: A Fight for Justice and Family Preservation

2026-01-05T19:03:53+00:00

Summary: Traumatic Birth: Baby Evelyn’s delivery involved complications, including a vacuum-assisted birth and emergency c-section, which medical experts said could easily explain her brain bleed but was overlooked by hospital staff. Other asymptomatic injuries on her ribs also pointed to birth trauma, but Doctors at Cook Children’s never even investigated it.  Hospital Diagnosis: At six weeks old, Evelyn was admitted to Cook Children’s Hospital for seizures, where a doctor reviewed an MRI of Evelyn’s brain, found a small brain bleed, and diagnosed child abuse just 2 minutes later, without meeting Evelyn or her parents and without evaluating multiple obvious alternative [...]

The Evelyn Boatright Case: A Fight for Justice and Family Preservation2026-01-05T19:03:53+00:00

2024 General Election Wins

2025-03-13T17:53:17+00:00

Now seems like the perfect moment to embrace the saying, “Everything Is Bigger In Texas!” The 2024 Elections certainly lived up to that claim. While these elections made waves nationwide, let’s be clear: The Elections Were Bigger in Texas! Probably now more than ever, parental rights have taken center stage, and the momentum generated during the Primaries and Runoffs set the stage for the results we witnessed last night during the General Election. Journey Back In Time During the Primaries and Runoffs, we witnessed notable changes in the Texas House with the overturning of multiple seats and important wins in [...]

2024 General Election Wins2025-03-13T17:53:17+00:00

#BringEvelynHome

2024-11-15T17:08:58+00:00

On 11/13/2024 the judge ruled in favor of Evelyn’s parents, and on 11/14/2024 Evelyn went home. Evelyn’s homecoming marks a victory not just for her family but for parental rights advocates everywhere. DONATE What Went Wrong in Evelyn's Case? How Medical Misjudgment and CPS Failures Tore Evelyn from Her Parents Evelyn was born on December 24, 2023, via emergency C-section after 12 hours of being stuck in the birth canal. Because of the difficult delivery, she was born with molding of the head and caput succedaneum (swelling and bruising of the head), [...]

#BringEvelynHome2024-11-15T17:08:58+00:00

Online Group Bullied This Family For Years: Then CPS Showed Up

2024-10-04T00:09:24+00:00

Quick Facts: JD and Britney Lott and their eight children were targeted with malicious and false CPS reports by a Reddit group that tracked and berated them online for years. Family Freedom Project mounted a rapid response to defend the family against a CPS-imposed deadline only hours away. Filing a false CPS report is a felony. After intervention from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s office, local police opened a criminal investigation into the Redditor's conduct. Nationally, 1 out of every 3 American children will be investigated by CPS before the age of 18. For black children, the rate is 1 out [...]

Online Group Bullied This Family For Years: Then CPS Showed Up2024-10-04T00:09:24+00:00

FFP Challenges Order Violating Parental Rights

2025-05-02T17:55:21+00:00

Press Release Court Documents Amicus Curiae Brief TX Supreme Court Issues Landmark Decision In Defense of Mother Banned from Contact with her Children “For Life” 5/2/2025 Update In a major win for parental rights and due process, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in favor of a mother who was banned from seeing her children for the rest of her life. The decision comes in the case of Stary v. Ethridge, where a Houston trial court had imposed a lifetime contact ban between a mother and her children based solely on an accusation [...]

FFP Challenges Order Violating Parental Rights2025-05-02T17:55:21+00:00

PRESS RELEASE: FFP Urges Texas Supreme Court to Not Discard Parental Rights in Landmark Case

2025-05-05T18:15:46+00:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 23, 2024 Contact: Jeremy Newman Phone: 214-707-8445 Email: Jeremy@FamilyFreedomProject.org Family Freedom Project Urges Texas Supreme Court to Not Discard Parental Rights in Landmark Case LUBBOCK, TX - The Family Freedom Project has filed an Amicus Curiae Brief in the case of Stary v Ethridge before the Supreme Court of Texas, urging the court to uphold fundamental parental rights in the care, custody, and control of their children. Houston attorney Chris Branson and former Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman filed the brief on behalf of the Family Freedom Project. The rights of all Texas parents are [...]

PRESS RELEASE: FFP Urges Texas Supreme Court to Not Discard Parental Rights in Landmark Case2025-05-05T18:15:46+00:00
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