On Friday a fit, godly mother was scheduled to lose her three children to her former husband and his parents. I wrote earlier this week about this horrible and unjust ruling by a Republican judge in Milam County. A father, who travels an average of two to three weeks per month, has been ruled “more stable” and therefore was given temporary custody of the three children. The paternal grandparents, who sought to be part of the lawsuit but were denied because of the law, have nevertheless been told by the judge that they, and not the mother, will have the children while the father travels. [Read more...]

I’ve been writing since February about a custody case in Cameron in which the father and paternal grandparents are seeking to take three children from their fit mother. I was asked to testify as an expert witness on home schooling, because that seemed to be the major argument that the father and his parents presented to the court as to why the children should be removed from the mother. Home schooling in general was attacked as a non-viable educational alternative, and, of course, the socialization aspect was also challenged. The father was in favor of home schooling while he and his wife were married, although he forced his wife and children to stop attending a co-op because the people were “too religious.” He and the grandparents now argue that the mother isolated her children, and other witnesses said the children were “too naïve for their age.”

After being notified about this attack against home schooling in general, and this mom in particular, 40 home schoolers came to observe the last day of the hearing for temporary orders. They were appalled, as they recognized that virtually any of them could be victims of the same accusations.  [Read more...]

As I’m thinking about Valentine’s Day today and getting flowers and cards for my wife, mother, and daughter, I have been contemplating what real love is and how the culture in which we live has little understanding of it. [Read more...]