Legal Question in Family Law in Michigan

Re: child nudity

While you have the right to raise children in a nudist environment, I think you should give due thought to the people to whom you expose your children. Note that in a divorce situtaion, --how do you think a court is going to look at the parent who wants to raise their child in a nudist lifestyle, as opposed to one who doesn't?

I don't think the courts have had to deal (recently) with the question of choice in whether children may be nude in their own homes (as opposed to someone else's), but I strongly suspect that there's no law against it.

However, I can't quite get away from the feeling that since children don't really have a choice (legally), they are being put on display, rather than choosing a certain lifestyle.

On one website, it mentions that adults are not to initiate contact with any child not their own, but how can you enforce something like that? The idea is to be natural, and if the kids had clothes on, you wouldn't have to worry about adults (well, let's be honest: men) having contact with the children. You know all the arguments for and against nudism, so you really have to make up your own mind to take whatever consequences present themselves.

Re: child nudity

You have to be very careful about violating the laws regasrding sexually abusive activity to children. Some county prosecutors along with the MFIA (child protective services) view that exposed children to nude adults is abusive if not criminal. Having the children nude in front of adults may lead some prosecutors to believe that it is being done soley for the sexual gratification of the adults. Granted this is not the case in your situation as you are true nudest engaged in an appropriate lifestyle for yourself. If any of your children object to this lifestyle it would be prudent not to force them to participate. You should not allow them to be photographed or hugged by nude adults as that action will most certainly bring down the wrath of the State. Use common sense. The biggest damger you face is having your children removed from your care and your parental rights possibly terminated by MFIA. Most social workers employed by the State do not belive that children should be exposed to nude adults and should never be in a social setting nude in front of adults. Be careful.