In an age of grisly human rights abuses from Syria to North Korea, it’s disconcerting that the UN Human Rights Committee feels that it should devote energy to spanking bans.

Parents are under investigation for letting their two young children walk home from a park by themselves.

The federal government is cracking down on the junk food normally sold in public school vending machines, but they’re leaving vending machines in teacher’s lounges alone. Perhaps we’ve finally stumbled upon a way to solve teacher pensions crisis.

New accounts of parents being punished for leaving their children unattended are rightly drawing ire from observers across the political spectrum. The child welfare bureaucracy has been growing stronger for quite some time, and now has the power to remove children from their families more easily than you might think.

The FDA is enforcing a law that would ban artisanal cheese aged on wooden boards. The nanny state madness is reaching new heights.