Focus on the Family media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Focus on the Family one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Far right. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Focus on the Family biased?
The rating organisations do not give Focus on the Family one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Far right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Focus on the Family left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Focus on the Family one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Far right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Focus on the Family reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Focus on the Family are Media Bias/Fact Check: Low factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Focus on the Family has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Focus on the Family’s own report linked underneath.
Investigative journalist Nick Shirley has filed a lawsuit against California, challenging Assembly Bill 2624. Critics have nicknamed the law the 'Stop Nick Shirley Act.' Shirley contends the legislation infringes upon his First Amendment rights and could impede his work reporting on immigration-service organizations.
Focus on the Family reported it asNick Shirley Sues California for Squelching Freedom of the Press (opens Focus on the Family in a new tab)
A federal judge dismissed a Department of Justice lawsuit challenging California's policies on transgender athletes. The judge ruled the DOJ did not give California adequate prior notice before threatening to withhold $44 billion in education funds. The DOJ is reviewing an appeal.
Focus on the Family reported it asJudge Dismisses DOJ’s Lawsuit Against California’s Policy Allowing Boys in Girls Sports (opens Focus on the Family in a new tab)
The US Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools, alleging its transgender student policies violate federal law. The school district maintains its policies are compliant with federal regulations.
Focus on the Family reported it asDOJ Sues Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools Over ‘Transgender’ Secrecy Policies (opens Focus on the Family in a new tab)
Professional lip readers have offered differing interpretations of a video showing Donald and Melania Trump in a tense conversation at the Freedom 250 IndyCar Grand Prix in Washington D.C. on August 23.
Focus on the Family reported it asFirst Lady Melania Trump: Every Child Deserves a Family and a Future (opens Focus on the Family in a new tab)
Surrogate McKenna West sued for $100,000 after refusing abortion for baby with heart condition
Trust 58A nurse from Alaska who carried a baby for a California couple is being sued for over $100,000 after refusing to terminate the pregnancy when the fetus was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. The biological parents allege breach of contract, while the surrogate says she acted to protect the child’s life. A Texas court will hear custody and parentage disputes on 25 August.
Focus on the Family reported it asUpdate: Baby Gabriel Survives First Heart Surgery; Biological Parents Sue Surrogate (opens Focus on the Family in a new tab)
A surrogate mother in Texas refused an abortion request for a baby diagnosed with a heart defect, leading to a custody battle. The intended parents are suing for breach of contract, while Texas law grants parentage to the birth mother.
Focus on the Family reported it asUpdate: Baby Gabriel Survives First Heart Surgery; Biological Parents Sue Surrogate (opens Focus on the Family in a new tab)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened in a Dallas County court case to ensure life-saving medical treatment for baby Gabriel, diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. The surrogate mother, McKenna West, traveled from Alaska to Texas after the intended parents sought to abort the pregnancy due to the defect.
Focus on the Family reported it asBreaking: Baby Gabriel Born as Texas Court Issues Order Protecting His Chance at Life (opens Focus on the Family in a new tab)
The US Senate passed a bill on 3 August 2026 that includes a one-month delay on federal regulation of intoxicating hemp-derived THC products in Minnesota. The reprieve, part of a short-term funding measure, could be extended beyond December and prevents an immediate ban on the state's hemp-based edibles and drinks industry.
Focus on the Family reported it asSenate Waffles on Banning Hemp-Derived THC (opens Focus on the Family in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Low factuality
- Media Bias/Fact ChecklowCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Focus on the Family.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- focusonthefamily.com
- Seen publishing on
- dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com, focusonthefamily.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 7 August 2026
8 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Focus on the Family ran the story anyway.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Focus on the Family: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 24 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 12 September 2026. Ratings pulled 9 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Focus on the Family, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Focus on the Family publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
Report something wrong on this page
Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.