Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism

The emergence of parental rights as a conservative movement spurred by the presumed right of white men to govern their homes

“Parental rights” is a rallying cry for today’s American conservatives, signaling opposition to mandatory vaccination and “woke” public school curricula. In Every Man’s Home a Castle, Julia Bowes traces the origins of the modern parental rights movement to the nineteenth century, when the introduction of compulsory schooling laws, child labor regulations, and vaccine r...