Introduction: Through an e-mail sent last December to HELM Harbor, HELM's e-mail list, I learned that the Bryant children had been placed into the custody of DSS. This news was totally unexpected, and I was stunned. What I learned about this situation has deepened my concern for the increasing forcible restraint of parental rights. Home educators have a responsibility to act in support for the Bryants and others waging battle in the front lines. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Bryant family continues a five-year-old court battle which, though located on the battleground of homeschooling, is part of the much...