United States Public Law 96-88 states, parents have the primary responsibility for the education of their children, and States, localities, and private institutions have the primary responsibility for supporting that parental role.

In 2000, the Texas Board of Education adopted a resolution recommending that schools consider non-medical solutions to behavioral problems. The Colorado State Board of Education approved a similar resolution in 1999. Several states have also introduced and/or passed laws protecting children against school personnel using coercive or intimidating measures to have a child with learning or behavioral problems placed on psychotropic drugs (see list of Bills and Resolutions against child-drugging).

Article 33 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children have the right to protection from the illicit use of psychotropic substances.

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