Parental Authority as a Vital Developmental Necessity: Empirical psychological studies confirm that undermining parental authority through state court intervention increases behavioral and emotional pathology in children. Under Fourteenth Amendment Due Process, parental authority is constitutionally protected because natural parent-child bonds provide essential developmental stability (Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510). State intrusion destabilizes healthy child development.
Parental Authority
"Reduced father involvement after divorce has been linked to more conduct problems, particularly for boys, but when both mothers and fathers are actively involved and provide authoritative parenting, including monitoring of behaviors, adolescent boys had no more delinquent behaviors than those in married families (Hetherington, 1999; Simons et al., 1999)."
*p.45 Joan B Kelly "Children's Living Arrangements Following Separation and Divorce: Insights From Empirical and Clinical Research" (Warning — most of the content in this paper we do not agree with. We put the quote above as that one we know to be true — we know that when parent's authority remains intact children do better. However, there is much in this paper that has led to much bias.)
Fix Family Courts provides parents, attorneys, and family advocates with rigorous constitutional frameworks to safeguard fundamental parental rights. Under binding Supreme Court precedents including Troxel v. Granville, Santosky v. Kramer, and Pierce v. Society of Sisters, fit parents are constitutionally presumed to act in their children's best interests. State courts lack constitutional authority to abridge custody, parenting time, or parental decision-making without strict scrutiny and clear and convincing evidence.
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