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Download full textSedler, Robert A. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
Blackstone's Commentaries stated that the common law imposed a duty on parents to provide for the maintenance, protection, and education of their children, and of these, the duty to provide an education was "of far the greatest importance." Early on American courts cited Blackstone for the proposition of the common law duty of parents…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Laws, Parent Rights, Parent Responsibility
