United States Parental Rights Threatened

Are you a parent living in the United States? Do you enjoy the freedoms that you have with the upbringing of your children? Freedoms like being able to teach your children a religion of your choice or maybe even to opt out of teaching a religion at all? How about deciding how your child is going to be educated: public school, private school, home school? There are many things that we, as parents in the United States, do that we do not even think about as being a freedom. We get to choose the type of discipline we implement to train our children, like spankings or no spankings, time outs and groundings. Parents make decisions on children's health care, like to vaccinate or not to vaccinate. How would you like it if the government made these types of decisions for you? In some countries these decisions "are" made for parents, and in one country they even decide whether or not a young child will make their society better and if they decide that they will not, the child dies.

It is time for parents to be informed of what our government is wanting to implement. For many years, there has been an international convention trying to be ratified in the United States. This convention is called, "The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child". This treaty was signed by the Clinton administration in 1995, but was never ratified. If ratified, it would be considered law and would override our constitution where families and children are concerned.

There are 194 countries who have ratified the The Rights of the Child. Only Somalia and the United States of America have not ratified this treaty.

• Netherlands - Parents have to go out of their way to please their children, like working extra hard to give them the things they want. Teachers and schools do not expect much from their students. Children's freedoms include - drinking, smoking, drugs and sex at any age. Sex education starts at age 4 and the age of consent is 12. Over 90% of 15 year old teens are sexually active.
• Belgium - Parents who do not get their child the mandatory vaccines are arrested. The courts can take a child from the home for almost any reason they see fit.Only the Dutch language is allowed to be spoken to children. To help make a better society, pediatricians are allowed to end the life of a child up to the age of 1 year, if the doctor determines that the baby is somehow disabled, deficient, or will suffer in life. This can happen even if the parents object. The government is considering assisted suicide for teens and younger children who are terminally ill.
• Italy - Parents are required to support their adult children until the child finds a job that he/she likes. Courts can change the name of a child if they do not accept the one the parents choose.
• Sweden -No corporal punishment is allowed. This includes any type of spanking, being sent to their room or time outs. To train a child the parent has to use negotiation. Sex education is mandatory - parents are not allowed to opt their child out of this class. There is free child care for children under 12 years of age to all parents who work.

 *Resource link: http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7BBE94C620-D288-462B-8B08-F8AF4C2D5925%7D&DE=

If this treaty passes in the United States, there will be 18 foreign people meeting in Geneva to make official decisions for parents of children in America.  These people will allow and/or disallow things such as:

• Parents could only be an adviser when it comes to religion.  The child will have the right to choose any type of religion he/she wants and parents will have no say in it.
• If the government disagrees with a decision the parents make, they can override that decision.
• If a child disagrees with his or her parents, they will have the right to be heard in the courts.
• Christian schools will not be able to teach that Christianity is the only true religion and will have to teach other types of religion as well.
• Parents will have to allow their child to be in sex education classes in school.
• Children will not need parental consent to obtain birth control, sexual reproductive education, or abortions.
• Using spankings as a form of discipline will not be allowed.
• A minor who commits a murder will not have to spend life in prison for his/her offense.

The best way to perserve parental rights in the United Sates, is by making an admendment to the constitution. Making an admendment may be a long hard task, but with our freedoms at jeopardy, we must make a change. The new admendment will have three sections.

Section #1 - The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children is a fundamental right.

Section #2 - Neither the United States nor any state shall infringe upon this right without demonstrating that its governmental interest as applied to the person is of the highest order and not otherwise served.

Section #3 - No treaty may be adopted nor shall any source of international law be employed to supersede, modify, interpret, or apply the rights guaranteed by this article.

To help get this admendment into the constitution, start by signing a petition at www.parentalrights.org. While there, take a look at this site and educate yourself on this treaty, the proposed admendment, and the other ways you can help save our parental freedoms.