Family relationships are very important to the growth and progress of the United States. Familes are valued as the foundation of communities. Yet most American families have no idea of the international treaty law that is not threating our families and our country as a whole. Parents have the right to make the rules for their homes and their children. Until now that right has not been threatened but that is changing. I researched this subject and posted a variety of links and information. I suggest you research it for yourself. Please keep commments civil. Remember we are all allowed to have our opinions and they does not mean then anyone is necessary right or wrong.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has been ratified by every nation in the world except the United and Somalia.
It was brought before the Senate in 1995 but many opposed it because they thought it marked a significant departure from the American concept of the relationship between state and child, and was incompatible with the right of parents to raise their children. More on the International Treaty Law can be found here.
Parental Rights are being challenged in the Government.
Michael Farris of Purcellville, Va., is president of ParentalRights.org, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association and chancellor of Patrick Henry College. He told WND that under the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, or CRC, every decision a parent makes can be reviewed by the government to determine whether it is in the child's best interest.
According to the Parental Rights website, the substance of the CRC dictates the following:
- Parents would no longer be able to administer reasonable spankings to their children.
- A murderer aged 17 years, 11 months and 29 days at the time of his crime could no longer be sentenced to life in prison.
- Children would have the ability to choose their own religion while parents would only have the authority to give their children advice about religion.
- The best interest of the child principle would give the government the ability to override every decision made by every parent if a government worker disagreed with the parent's decision.
- A child's "right to be heard" would allow him (or her) to seek governmental review of every parental decision with which the child disagreed.
- According to existing interpretation, it would be illegal for a nation to spend more on national defense than it does on children's welfare.
- Children would acquire a legally enforceable right to leisure.
- Teaching children about Christianity in schools has been held to be out of compliance with the CRC.
- Allowing parents to opt their children out of sex education has been held to be out of compliance with the CRC.
- Children would have the right to reproductive health information and services, including abortions, without parental knowledge or consent.
According to the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
Justice Candidate a Threat to Parental Rights
Homeschool supporters should urge their senators to oppose the nomination of David Ogden for deputy U.S. attorney general. Ogden is a strong advocate of international law, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. (HSLDA)
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Why can't I spank my youngest? Because any child who comes to you as an older child has probably been exposed to violence in the home...and spanking is violence. There are better ways than spanking to build good citizens.
It deals with so much more than spanking a child.
Evidently if a child does not want to be homeschooled the parent has to take it to the government and the governmen will decide what to do about it.
Michael Farris said "If you think your child shouldn't go to the prom because their grades were low, the U.N. Convention gives that power to the government to review your decision and decide if it thinks that's what's best for your child," he said. "If you think that your children are too young to have a Facebook account, which interferes with the right of communication, the U.N. gets to determine whether or not your decision is in the best interest of the child."
That is sad about children coming from violence in the home. Children should not have to deal with that but I know there are many who do.
I do not want my child learning about Christianity in a public school unless it is taught as a survey of world religions.
I'm raising my daughter in a Christian religious tradition, but if she chooses something else for herself, I'm okay with that.
The sex education thing doesn't really bother me because I'm going to teach her that anyway.
I think we should spend just as much (if not more) on children's welfare as we do on national defense.
That is my thoughts exactly.
Renita,
I had not seen your post. I had not read any post on gather about this. I got an email about it from my local elected official.
We are in trouble
Sounds very much like communism.
It is necessary to look ahead to a time when perhaps a government no longer has the good of its people in mind.
Question 12:
This question was submitted by 31 year old, Tyler C., of North Carolina, and from 17 year old, Roy W., of Washington. They ask: “The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is a legally binding set of basic rights for minors. The only two countries which are not signatories to the CRC are Somalia and the United States. Somalia has not had a functioning government for some time. As President, would you seek the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?”
Senator Obama: It’s important that the United States return to its position as a respected global leader and promoter of human rights. It’s embarrassing to find ourselves in the company of Somalia, a lawless land. I will review this and other treaties to ensure the United States resumes its global leadership in human rights.
When I was small they could arrest you for public profanity. They upheld free speech and now even pre-schoolers cuss like sailors. This is a screwed up world.
I know just what you mean. I just cound not believe that these kinds of laws are even being considered let alone going before the Senate. The government just has too much power now. Parents have been raising kinds since the beginning of time. Government has been failing us more and more all the time.
If they have money to do this why are we in so much debt
It is a no win situation isn't it. It is hard raising kids the way it is now with society judging parents every step of the way. They have too much access to drugs and alcohol on the street now. If parents are not allowed to disipline them or ground them in any way they will all be drug addicts!
When our kids were in elementary school, we lived in a location where we had choices of two schools. There was buses for both schools came up our road. We sent them to one school and then was going to transfer them to the other one. We went to the library which is just across the road from the school and I could not believe the words those kids were using!
We decided to not change schools.
This is the way I was brought up. I chose none at all.
* Allowing parents to opt their children out of sex education has been held to be out of compliance with the CRC.
* Children would have the right to reproductive health information and services, including abortions, without parental knowledge or consent."
I tend to agree with all of these in some form or another.
My mom tried spanking me for various things, and it didn't do any good. It's like Ellie said, she used it in anger and it is ineffective.
I'm guessing it's the religion thing that bothers you most, but I can tell you that the law does not prohibit you from teaching your children whatever you choose. You can still send them to Sunday school or set up home schooling.
What else would you object to?
A 17 almost 18 year should not be tried as an adult even if he committed a murder. I've lived long enough to know that this is wrong.
Sex education and all that...why wouldn't you want your children be informed? There is no greater danger than for a girl not to know about her own reproductive organs and how they function.
To keep them ignorant of what sex and all that is about and keep them from practicing birth control is about the most dangerous thing I can think of in today's society.
There is no reason you can't tell your son to keep it in his pants and your daughter to know that young boys want one thing only, but she will be the one to bear the consequences. Would you have her life be ruined by an untimely pregnancy?
Come on Connie, we have the science to help our daughters and keep them safe by using contraceptives. If I had a daughter I'd giver a package in every color - do you really want her to contract a disease?
They are young, they are stupid and their hormones are raging, but you really want to still punish your daughter as if we lived in the middle ages?
I wouldn't want my daughter to be on a campus in any college of these United States of America or anywhere else without the full knowledge of what's it all about and the means and my blessing to protect herself.
Our children still grow up and absorb our moral and religious beliefs, they do know right from wrong, but in today's world that is no longer enough!
Do you really think that your daughter wouldn't feel compelled to speak with you about an abortion if it really came to this? I'm sure you teach your children well and with luck nothing happens/ed.
I am quite aware there are cases, when the parents will simply throw their daughter out of the house and have her fend for her child and herself, denouncing her to boot. That's not parenting in my book!
This law is meant for people such as this who would deny their daughter the help and guidance she needs at a time when she needs them most.
I won't debate abortion here, you can guess what my stance is on that, but if she has alternatives then she needs to be aware of them, that's all I will say about that. Just because she can have an abortion doesn't mean she will.
The right to leisure time referred to above is meant to protect children from child labor. They are kids they need a little time to play.
Just my two cents.
* Parents would no longer be able to administer reasonable spankings to their children.
* A murderer aged 17 years, 11 months and 29 days at the time of his crime could no longer be sentenced to life in prison.
* Children would have the ability to choose their own religion while parents would only have the authority to give their children advice about religion.
* The best interest of the child principle would give the government the ability to override every decision made by every parent if a government worker disagreed with the parent's decision.
* A child's "right to be heard" would allow him (or her) to seek governmental review of every parental decision with which the child disagreed.
* According to existing interpretation, it would be illegal for a nation to spend more on national defense than it does on children's welfare.
* Children would acquire a legally enforceable right to leisure.
* Teaching children about Christianity in schools has been held to be out of compliance with the CRC.
* Allowing parents to opt their children out of sex education has been held to be out of compliance with the CRC.
* Children would have the right to reproductive health information and services, including abortions, without parental knowledge or consent.
If this is true then Is the government ready to house a big time out camp for all it's bad kids. Jails will over flow more kids will be running wild and it will be the parents spending there time and money on these kids that the government has turned into wild children will the will to do at they please. It will be the parents and other family members that set up at night worrying about the kids, it will be the parents, brothers and sisters that will visit the kids in jail, it will be the family that sends letters and gifts and it will be mine and your tax dollars doing the job that the parents should do by giving these kids a place to live and food to eat.
I feel that that each kid born to any family is and should be the responsible of that family. You take your kids to your church teach them your views, you take your kids to the store and buy them the clothes you want them to wear, you take your kids to school to learn what they must the outside world is not hidden from them. When A kid is 18 then ok then that kid can do as it pleases. And after the age 18 go for it government rule over them as you do us adults.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/UN_Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child
Go READ THE DAMN THING before bitching about it. The entire bill is to protect children from child labor, sex exploitation, and from being taken from their families. It says a child has a right to see both parents (as in cases one one parent tries to keep the other away from the child out of spite). It says that the state should appoint a separate legal counsel to a child in the event of divorce of similar action to make sure the needs of the child are taken care of.
GO READ THE DOCUMENT FIRST. Then bitch. This bill is specifically in response to the terrible conditions children live in in many parts of the world where child labor, child prostitution, and abuse is commonplace.
no I dont believe in spanking around a kid but I do believe that kids have no respect for there elders any more and should be taught too.
they seem to think if they dont have what johnny has down the street there being abused . well it never hurt a child to have chores nor to be responable either.
and no I dont believe kids need to be tried as adluts if they do some thing like murder but I do feel they need better guidness in there lifes. and yes we did homeschool our girls it was the best thing ever for them and us . they turn out beautifully with out the peer presure of to day school . which need a completle over haul.