Parental Rights

Something very near and dear to my heart is the parental rights of myself and of the parents in this nation! It is scary to think that government would have us believe that they know better than we do on how to raise our children. There is a UN treaty called "the right of the child." It sounds harmless, except it means that the government is allowed to step in and make decisions for your child if THEY feel that you aren't doing a good enough job or they think you should be doing it this way instead of that way. In other words, parents would lose their rights as parents. It sounds insane, and not like something that can happen in the U.S. but it is already happening and we (the U.S.) have not yet signed the treaty with the UN. www.parentalrights.org is trying to get an amendment passed that protects parental rights. The only reason government should ever step in, is in the case of abuse, and I am sure that the government would have us believe that this is what this treaty is about, but it is not. I encourage all of you to get educated on this topic. I don't care if you don't have kids or your kids have already grown. Our children are our future. Do you think the people running this country know what is best for these children, or do you think that parents raising and loving their children know best? Here is the latest email I received from parentalrights.org. Again, please sign the petition and read on their website about what this all about because I know they can word it a lot better than I can. =)

Parents of 50 Million U.S. Children Soon to Lose Parental Rights

If your children attend public school, you are among those parents whose rights will end the moment your child enters the school. That’s because in 2005 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found in Fields v. Palmdale School District “that the Meyer-Pierce right [of parents to direct the upbringing of their children] does not exist beyond the threshold of the school door.”

You read that right. Parental Rights “[do] not exist beyond the threshold of the school door.”

“We conclude that the parents are possessed of no constitutional right to prevent the public schools from providing information on the subject [of sexuality] to their students in any forum or manner they select” (emphasis added).

Of course, most parents contend they don’t have a choice in where their children are schooled. Either economic constraints or personal circumstances leave them with no practical alternative to the local public school. And that leaves no parental rights at all.

Please act to reverse this assault by big government courts against parental rights. Sign the petition and get more information at ParentalRights.org.

Then, please pass this on. Every parent of a public school student needs to know the extent to which the courts have robbed them of their rights. Forward this email to friends, add the message to your Facebook account, or click here to visit this page online and use the “share” button to add it to virtually any other social network.

Looking Ahead

This is the first of several court cases we plan to review for you in the coming weeks. The courts’ disregard for the traditional formative role of parents in a child’s life needs to be brought to light. And while the Parental Rights Amendment will not give parents any greater power to control the school’s choice of curriculum, it will protect their right to pull their individual child out of any program of an outrageous or offensive nature, like the program in the Palmdale case. (To read more from this case, click here.)

Sincerely,

Michael Ramey
Communications Director