of the American people and the English common law to define the parameters of “fundamental” rights). Among those interests lying at the core of parents’ rights to raise and care for their own children is the right to control their children’s companions and associations. In concurring with the plurality’s decision in Troxel, Justice Souter explained the importance of a parent’s control over a child’s personal associations: “The strength of a parent’s interest in controlling a child’s associates is as obvious as the influence of personal associations on the development of the child’s social and moral character. Whether for good or for ill, adults not only influence but may indoctrinate children, and a choice about a child’s social companions is not essentially differen 5, 45 S.Ct. 571 (<HOLDING>); Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. at 233, 92 S.Ct.
recognizing parents fundamental liberty interest in the care custody and management of their children recognizing that pjarents have a fundamental liberty interest protected by both the florida and federal constitutions in determining the care and upbringing of their children holding that a parents right to control a childs upbringing is a fundamental liberty interest under the fourteenth amendment recognizing liberty of parents  to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control as against law compelling publicschool attendance holding that liberty includes the right of parents to establish a home and bring up children and to control the education of their own