Since the Texas Legislature passed a series of reforms to the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in 2003, a strong contingent of legislators, advocacy organizations, and special interests has lobbied to reverse these essential reforms.
Family
Toward an Office of Parental Rights in Texas: A Legal-Political-Historical Approach to the Protection of the Fundamental Rights and Duties of Parents
Toward an Office of Parental Rights in Texas: A Legal-Political-Historical Approach to the Protection of the Fundamental Rights and Duties of Parents Key points: Changing legal images of the family, constitutional disputes, and state overreach threaten parental rights as a broad, actionable claim of parents over the direction of their child’s life. The Due Process Clause...
September 2, 2026