Texas must make fundamental changes to CPS that focus on protecting children in their families when possible or in their communities and fully commit to community-based foster care as the vehicle for CPS reform. Texas should transfer the full continuum of child welfare services to regional providers.
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