1. In the U.S. this is particularly popular in communities of Hispanic background. For an account on tattooing, see Caplan Jane , Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History (2000).
2. See Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925) (requiring public schooling of children violated parental liberty to direct education of their children); Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923) (noting that public interest in younger children being educated in English does not outweigh parental discretion); Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717 (1974) (concluding that the state did not have authority to bus children out of their school district in order to desegregate); Yoder v. Wisconsin, 406 U.S. 205 (1972) (requiring that parents send their children to school to age 16 violated religious freedom of Mennonite parents).
3. The case of the Romeikes, supported by Christian home schooling lobbies (such as the Home Schooling Legal Defense Fund) in the U.S., drew worldwide attention. See, e.g., German Home-School Family Will Not Be Deported from US, BBC News (Mar. 5, 2014), http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26454988 (last visited Oct. 31, 2017); Friday's ‘Hot Topics: Cool Talk’ Forum Asks: Should German Home-Schoolers be Granted Asylum in U.S.?, Univ. of St. Thomas (Nov. 23, 202), http://www.stthomas.edu/news/hot-topics-cool-talk-german-home-schoolers; Jane O'Brien, German Home-School Families Face US Deportation, BBC News (Nov. 6, 2013), http://www.bbc.com/news/business-24804804 (last visited Oct. 31, 2017).
4. See Walzer Michael , Comment, in Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition 99–101 (1994). Walzer is one of the more sovereigntist and communitarian of liberals.
5. For the Resolution of Parliament, see Deutsche Bundestag Drucksache 17/10332. The law is codified at §1631(d) of the Civil Code (BGB) among the sections dealing with parental authority and near to §1626(1), which states that “parental custody includes care of the person of the child.” The if-under-six-months clause enables Jewish circumcisers (mohelim) to continue to pursue their trade.