Parental Rights

We Believe...

Children are a gift from God to their parents to be nurtured, protected, and trained to love God and love others.

This means that parents’ rights to protect, provide for, and train their children are also God-given, intrinsically known, and must be protected by the government.

Parents are responsible for and know their children best. As such, they must have the freedom to choose the education best suited to their children — and reject education they know is harmful.

When it comes to healthcare, decision-making power is best placed with parents — not with children, and certainly not with government officials. And, perhaps most importantly, parents have the sole right to direct the moral and religious upbringing of their children and should retain the right to seek out professional services for their child that line up with the family’s values.

NJFF/NJFPC advances policy that protects parental rights, which gives parents the ability to protect their own children and ultimately strengthens families.

Do parents have the right to know what schools are teaching their children?

Parents from all political parties agree there should be greater classroom transparency.

Parents are not only taxpayers but also the primary stakeholders in the public education system.

Parents deserve transparency about what is taught in the schools they fund and that their children attend.

Parents have the fundamental right to know what the government is teaching their children.

Should schools impose upon families the government’s beliefs on sexuality and gender identity?

Trust in New Jersey public schools has been undermined because of Gov. Murphy. The result of state-mandated policies has created unhealthy tension and produced intense conflict between parents and school districts.

We do not believe anyone should have the right to force their beliefs on someone else, yet this is exactly what is happening through these radical gender identity lesson mandates.

It is the duty of public schools to be unbiased and neutral in how they present religious beliefs and political ideologies. Jews, Muslims, Christians, and others have historically been able to attend public school because no particular view of God or religious practice is imposed upon students or endorsed by the state. Unfortunately, a new sexual ideology, endorsed by Gov. Murphy is being imposed upon our children in public schools who are still learning to tie their shoes in kindergarten.

The government does not have a right to impose a sexual framework onto students. Parents have a fundamental and constitutional right to direct the moral and educational upbringing of their children.