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A person commits a Class C misdemeanor if they intentionally or knowingly leave a child in a car for longer than five minutes, knowing that the child is younger than 7 and not with an individual ...
This week a federal appeals court upheld a Texas law that requires minors in the state to get parental permission to access contraception through a federally funded family planning program known ...
Sign at San Francisco Fire Station 14 designating it as a Safe Surrender Site. Safe-haven laws (also known in some states as "Baby Moses laws", in reference to the religious scripture) are statutes in the United States that decriminalize the leaving of unharmed infants with statutorily designated private persons so that the child becomes a ward of the state.
Under the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA), 46 codified at 18 U.S.C. § 3771, federal law enforcement officials must notify a child pornography victim (or his or her guardian if the victim is still a minor) each time the officials charge an offender with a child pornography offense related to an image depicting the victim.
It is a defense to a prosecution pursuant to sections 13-1404 and 13–1405 in which the minor's lack of consent is based on incapacity to consent because the minor was fifteen, sixteen or seventeen years of age if at the time the defendant engaged in the conduct constituting the offense the defendant did not know and could not reasonably have ...
Pornography may be legal in Texas, but not just anyone can access adult content. Companies that distribute adult content online — either from a website or social media channel — must verify ...
An emancipated minor does not simply acquire all rights of an adult; likewise, a child does not lack such rights merely because they are not emancipated. For example, in the US minors have some rights to consent to medical procedures without parental consent or emancipation, under the doctrine of the mature minor.
Texas law requiring that minors have parental permission to get birth control does not run afoul of a federally funded pregnancy health program known as Title X, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.