Ohio ‘natural family’ bill would promote traditional values, supporters say
October 6, 2025
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Supporters of a recent Ohio Statehouse bill say that recognizing “Natural Family Month” would highlight the role of married mothers and fathers in raising children, and help reverse what they see as decades of damage to the nuclear family.
House Bill 262, which would designate the weeks between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day as “Natural Family Month,” received a proponent hearing on Sept. 30 in the Ohio House Community Revitalization Committee. Introduced in May by Reps. Josh Williams (R-Sylvania) and Beth Lear (R-Galena), the bill proposes a symbolic recognition of what the legislation calls “natural families”: married heterosexual couples raising biological or adopted children.
