Child Policy Recommendations

Require states to notify all adoption agencies within 200 miles of a child's foster home or last known parental home when parental custody rights have been terminated. Permit states to contact adoption agencies outside 200 miles at their discretion. After a child lives in foster care for more than a lifetime total of 150 days, terminate parental custody rights and let the child be adopted by the best available parents of similar race and culture.

Require employers having more than six employees to provide one day of fully paid maternity leave for each five days of job seniority, up to a maximum 125 days maternity leave per infant, to primary care giver employees of newborns or adopted infants under 85 days old.

Prohibit employers from hiring and firing on the basis of fertility or parental or guardian status. Or from otherwise punishing parents or guardians on the basis of their parental or guardian status.

Create a $5200 annual voucher or refundable tax credit for all American children age one second to their sixth birthday, living in one minor child families. Create a $5500 annual voucher or refundable tax credit for such children living in two minor child families. Create a $5800 annual voucher or refundable tax credit for such children living in three minor child families. Create a $6200 annual refundable voucher or tax credit for such children living in four minor child families. Create a $6600 annual voucher or refundable tax credit for such children living in five minor child families. Create a $7000 annual voucher or refundable tax credit for such children living in six or more minor child families. Split vouchers in cases of joint custody.

Create federal entities to administer and distribute all vouchers and credits described herein.

Create a new Federal entity to keep tabs on who has custody of every American child, to audit those claiming child related vouchers or credits, to ensure that no nonexistent or ineligible dependents are claimed, and to slash other forms of fraud.

Index all vouchers, credits, and other policies to inflation.

Give states latitude in deciding how to spend WIC money. Require all WIC recipients' children to receive any required vaccinations.

Create a universal nurse home visitor program similar to the Prenatal and Early Childhood Nurse Home Visitation Program.

Terminate parental contact for parents convicted of abuse or neglect. Permit contact when the child reaches adulthood at the discretion of the former child.

Separate visitation from child support. Keep the adoption tax credit and make it refundable or a voucher. Federalize child support. Hire private agencies to find dead-beat parents when other methods fail. Eliminate funding for corrupt, inefficient family preservation programs.

Automatically tax the gifts, inheritances, net income, and fringe benefits of noncustodial parents of minor children to provide child support. Create a federal parent locator service to assist in enforcement of child support. Require noncustodial parents not paying required child support to attend a program similar to Charles Ballard's. Require 47 hours of community service every time a parent gets behind more than an amount equal to one month's child support payment.

Require fertile parents or guardians convicted of child abuse or neglect or have had a child removed because of abuse or neglect for more than one month to undergo a mandatory vasectomy or tubal ligation.

Prohibit adults from coercing minors to kneel while cleaning, exercising, performing religious rituals, etc.

Require babies born drug addicted or with fetal alcohol syndrome to be immediately placed for adoption to the best available adopters of similar race, returned to birth mothers only if no decent adopting couples apply. Require such birth mothers to be surgically sterilized.

Provide simple government funded wedding ceremonies at government properties, performed by designated government employees or religious leaders, limited to 50 guests.

Ban tattooing of under 18-year-olds. Ban cosmetic surgeries on the butts, breasts, and genitals of under 18-year-olds, except burn patients. Ban cosmetic injections in under 18-year-olds.

Prohibit government contracting with search engine companies providing video games, sexually explicit materials, and spectator sports videos, requiring such search engines to be user deletable, including permanently deletable.

Prohibit the for-parent or guardian profit sale or use of their under age 16 children in videos and photographs.

Beginning 13 months from now, require new internet browsing electronic devices sold in the United States to come with an image and video incapable default browser, except maps.

Prohibit individuals under age 18 from signing up for non-email websites. Require websites to suspend accounts of users likely under age 18, requiring proof of age at least 18 for reinstatement. Ban lawsuits against websites for inadvertently suspending adult accounts.

Prohibit students from bringing smartphones into public school buildings.

Prohibit individuals from giving children supplements, except FDA approved vitamin and or mineral supplements. Prohibit individuals from giving non-emergency prescription treatments to children for off label usages when the treatments have not been prescribed.

Require investments of at least 20 percent of annual incomes above $4,000 earned by citizens under age 18 in Central Bank controlled index funds, not sellable until such citizens reach adulthood.

Prohibit baby bond programs.

Prohibit individuals under age 18 from having social media accounts, punishing social media corporations when their percentages of underage users exceed 2.3 percent.

Require any individual convicted of homicide, manslaughter, disabling assault or disabling negligence against a minor child custodial individual to pay child support to their victim or victim's custodial children until their victim's custodial children reach age 18 or until such disability heals.

Prohibit the sale of alcohol and tobacco smoking products to pregnant women.

JT Fournier, last updated March 15, 2024