(Washington Stand) West Virginia has enacted what is labeled a “Parents’ Bill of Rights” amid concerns about parents’ rights to direct their children’s upbringing in other states.
The state’s Republican Governor Patrick Morrisey signed House Bill 2129 into law Monday. The measure is scheduled to take effect on June 22.
The bill outlines several examples of rights that are “reserved to the parent of a minor child in this state without obstruction or interference from the state, any of its political subdivisions, any other governmental entity, or any other state institution.”
Those rights include “the right to direct the education and care of his or her minor child” and “the right to direct the upbringing and the moral or religious training of his or her minor child.” (Read More)
