Eroding Parental Rights in America
Oct 1, 2026 by Dr. Kent DelHousaye
"When an adult is behaving like an adult by telling their child that the child should not dress a certain way or have sex at an early age or even request sex or gender changes ... the parent is engaging in adultism. Adultism teaches us that adults have the power and the right to decide what young people's boundaries should be." –Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators
There is an organized and insidious attack on parents in America happening in our public schools. And to make matters worse, most parents don’t even know it’s happening.
The Democratic Socialists of America movement is growing and gaining momentum, and they have a devious strategy to undermine parental authority by severing children from their families.
And it’s not just happening to families. It’s also happening to communities and institutions all in an effort to transfer allegiance from trusted communities and institutions to the state.
The goal is to educate our children to distrust their parents, their neighbors, their churches, and their society, so that they will ultimately and only trust government to provide for and protect them.
For the DSA, the secular state is their god, and they want to fundamentally change America into a socialist system, in which the people look not to their families, their churches, their communities, or even to God but to government for their welfare.
This is absolutely happening under our noses, and too many families are either blissfully naïve or purposely ignorant to it, happily sending their kids off to school and right into a socialism incubator.
Whether parents want to accept it or not, the socialist agenda is already in their kids’ classrooms. It IS happening in our schools, and it IS happening to our children.
Did you know that public schools are now gender transitioning students without telling their parents? In California, AB 1955 otherwise known as the Safety Act now bars school districts from requiring staff to notify parents about a student’s gender identity.
Did you know that public schools are now teaching SOGI curriculum to students with no parental opt out? In Seattle Public Schools, they have officially banned parents from opting out their kids from forced LGBTQ+ books, discussions, and history lessons.
And did you know that public schools in 22 states are now teaching their students that parental authority is oppressive? Yes, students around the country are now learning a new “ethnic studies curriculum,” which frames parental authority as a form of “fascism.”
If this all sounds like communism, you’d be right. It’s a blatant radical Marxist agenda that deliberately and unapologetically shifts society toward communism, so don’t be fooled by the word “democratic” just because it is attached to it.
There is nothing democratic about it when the strategy is to take power away from the people and give it all to the government. And it’s especially pernicious when it is done so in the name of “democracy.”