ABSTRACT
The Supreme Court later delineated the boundaries of parental rights in Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 US 158. The guardian argued that the statute violated her right to freedom of religion under the First Amendment and her parental rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court also noted that '' the state has a wide range of power for limiting parental freedom and authority in things affecting the child's welfare; and that this includes, to some extent, matters of conscience and religious conviction". The Supreme Court held that the visitation order was an unconstitutional infringement on the mother's parental rights, relying on Meyer and its progeny. At issue was a grandparents' petition for greater rights to visit their grandchildren than their mother wanted to permit. The trial court entered a visitation order for the grandparents. In Pierce, the Court reviewed an Oregon compulsory attendance law that required all children age eight to sixteen to attend public school.
