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09/19/2024

Don't miss this week's episode with Vivek Sankaran, professor of law at the Michigan University School of Law and Director of their Child Advocacy Law Clinic. Vivek argues that courts should not immediately assume that taking away the parent’s rights is in the child’s best interest. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

09/17/2024

This week’s guest is Vivek Sankaran, professor of law at the Michigan University School of Law. Vivek argued two cases in front of the Michigan Supreme Court, which highlight the harms of permanently terminating parental rights without considering other ways to preserve the parent-child relationship. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

09/12/2024

Don't miss this week's episode with Kevin Boden of the Home School Defense Association!

09/10/2024

This week, our guest is Kevin Boden of the Home School Legal Defense Association. Kevin tells us about some potential changes to homeschooling law in West Virginia, and makes his case for why the laws governing homeschooling should remain unchanged. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

09/06/2024

Don't miss this week's episode with Chris Gottlieb! Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

09/03/2024

Welcome back to the EPPiC Broadcast! We're kicking off Season 9 with an interview with Chris Gottlieb, Director of the New York University School of Law's Family Defense Clinic. Hear about the the work the Clinic does to defend individual families and to advocate for family preservation in the child welfare system. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

08/02/2024

The EPPIC Broadcast is returning this September! Stay tuned for more updates.

05/16/2024

Thank you for listening to Season 8 of the EPPiC Broadcast! We will return for Season 9 in September 2024.

05/10/2024

The lived experience of families impacted by the child welfare system matters - both children and parents. Don't miss this week's podcast episode with Sixto Cancel, founder and CEO of Think of Us. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

05/07/2024

This week, we’re joined by Sixto Cancel, founder and CEO of Think of Us. Think of Us a non-profit advocacy organization that seeks to reform and transform the child welfare system, led and guided by people who have been directly impacted by this system. Sixto shares how his own experience growing in the foster care system led him to work toward its transformation and reform. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

This episode is the last episode of Season 8! Thank you for listening. The EPPiC Broadcast will return for Season 9 in August 2024.

05/02/2024

Don't miss this week's episode with Kathleen Creamer, managing attorney of the Family Advocacy Unit at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

04/30/2024

This week, Kathleen Creamer is returning to the EPPiC Broadcast! Kathleen gives us an overview of many topics under discussions at the ABA Center on Children and the Law’s recent National Conference on Parent Representation, which featured panels from many of the top scholars, lawyers, and authors in the world of child welfare reform. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

04/23/2024

his week, we're rewinding to a a conversation with Ernestine Gray from April 2023. Ernestine served for 35 years in the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court in Louisiana. During her tenure, the Orleans Juvenile Court went from what the New York Times described as “the worst juvenile court in the nation” to a model that other juvenile courts looked to for best practices. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

04/18/2024

Don't miss this week's episode with Andrew Brown! He explains why laws that ensure parents' right to a second opinion in cases involving child abuse pediatricians are important, and much more. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

04/16/2024

What effects would legislation proposed in various states have on families and the states' child welfare systems? To answer that, we looked to Texas, where the same measures have already become law. This week, we talked with Andrew Brown of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, about some of the laws Texas passed in recent years. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

04/11/2024

Don't miss this week's episode with Parental Rights Foundation Florida State Coordinator Patti Sullivan. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

04/09/2024

This week, we’re talking with Patti Sullivan, the Parental Rights Foundation's Florida State Coordinator. Patti and Michael were in DC to bring attention to two national bills aimed at protecting parental rights: the Families' Rights and Responsibilities Act and the Parental Rights Amendment. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

04/02/2024

This week, we’re talking with James Mason, president of the Homeschool Legal Defense Association. James tells us about a case in Texas that HSLDA has recently litigated on behalf of a homeschooling family caught up in a CPS investigation. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

03/28/2024

The African American Family Preservation Act would address the severe disproportionality of African American children within Minnesota's child welfare system, as well as providing better protections for all families in the state. Listen to this week's episode with Joanna Woolman to learn more: parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

03/26/2024

This week, we talk with Joanna Woolman, associate professor of law at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law and executive director of the Institute to Transform Child Protection. Joanna tells us about a civil rights complaint brought forward to address the disproportionality of African American children in Minnesota's child welfare system. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

03/21/2024

Don't miss this week's episode with Will Estrada of HSLDA! Listen to the full episode at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

03/19/2024

This week we talk with Will Estrada, senior counsel at the Homeschool Legal Defense Association and former president of the Parental Rights Foundation. Will tells us about his upcoming law review article, in which he argues that parental rights are a pre-political right, and that the family is a basic building block of society. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

03/14/2024

Don't miss this week's episode with Michelle Weidner of the Family Justice Resource Center. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

03/12/2024

This week, we’re talking with Michelle Weidner, executive director of the Family Justice Resource Center. Michelle is also a parent with lived experience dealing with the child protective system. In this episode, she tells about her experience being falsely accused by a child abuse pediatrician over a blur on her infant son’s medical scan. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

03/05/2024

This week, we're rewinding to a a conversation with Martin Guggenheim from February 2021. Martin has taught at the NYU School of Law for over 25 years, and is one of the foremost experts on family law and family rights today. Listen to this episode at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

03/01/2024

Don't miss this week's episode with Kelly Fong! Listen to our full conversation with her at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

02/28/2024

This week, we're talking with Kelly Fong, author of Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services, published in 2023. Kelly explains how child protective services exert an inescapable surveillance over many parents, especially low income and minority mothers. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

02/22/2024

Don't miss this week's conversation with Matt Sharp of Alliance Defending Freedom! Catch the full episode at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

02/20/2024

This week, we're talking with Matt Sharp of Alliance Defending Freedom. You can listen to our interview with Matt at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

02/15/2024

Don't miss this week's episode with Diane Redleaf! You can listen to our full conversation here: parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

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Don't miss this week's episode with Kevin Boden of the Home School Defense Association!

Don't miss this week's episode with Chris Gottlieb! Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

Don't miss this week's episode with Kathleen Creamer, managing attorney of the Family Advocacy Unit at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

Don't miss this week's episode with Parental Rights Foundation Florida State Coordinator Patti Sullivan. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

Don't miss this week's episode with Will Estrada of HSLDA! Listen to the full episode at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

Don't miss this week's episode with Michelle Weidner of the Family Justice Resource Center. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

Don't miss this week's episode with Kelly Fong! Listen to our full conversation with her at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

Don't miss this week's conversation with Matt Sharp of Alliance Defending Freedom! Catch the full episode at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

Don't miss this week's episode with Diane Redleaf! You can listen to our full conversation here: parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

Don't miss this week's episode with former PRO president, Will Estrada. Here, he talks about some of the parental rights work that he is doing now with the Homeschool Legal Defense Association. Listen to our full conversation with Will at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect homeschooling? Homeschool Legal Defense Association president Jim Mason explains in this week's episode. Catch our whole conversation with Jim at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

Don't miss this week's episode with Jane Spinak! Listen at parentalrightsfoudation.org/podcast.

Founding president of ParentalRights.org Michael Farris is excited about the current trajectory of parental rights issues. Listen to our full conversation with him at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

Don't miss this week's episode with JMACforFamilies founder Joyce McMillan! Far too often, the child welfare system punishes families instead of supporting them, especially minority and low-income families. Joyce explains what's going on, and how the system can do better. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

Don't miss this week's episode with Melissa Moschella! Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.

Don't miss this week's episode with Anna Arons. Anna explains how families are often denied Fourth Amendment rights in child welfare investigations, and why we should be concerned. Listen at parentalrightsfoundation.org/podcast.