Parents & Children Have Rights

United States Public Law 96-88 states, "parents have the primary responsibility for the education of their children, and States, localities, and private institutions have the primary responsibility for supporting that parental role."

• In 2000, the Texas board of Education adopted a resolution recommending that schools consider non-medical solutions to behavioral problems. The Colorado school board approved a similar resolution in 1999. Several states have also introduced and/or passed laws protecting children against school personnel using coercive or intimidating measures to have a child with learning or behavioral problems placed on psychotropic drugs. [See list of these under Bills and Resolutions against child drugging.]

• Article 33 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children have the right to protection from the "illicit use of psychotropic substances."