Parental Rights
by The rights of parents are being questioned. We need to fight for parents’ rights.
Parents have seen a disturbing trend in the workings of the American government lately. Many recent cases have revoked the rights of parents for little reason or even for mere suspicions. Should the government succeed in removing the rights of parents nothing but social calamity will result. The rights of parents to govern their own children should not be questioned except in cases of extreme need.
A society of children raised without the guidance of loving parents would be a confused and dangerous society indeed. This was one main flaw in the system Hitler used to govern. Deference was given to the state rather than to parents or other loving guides. The elderly were despised rather than honored. The natural system was disregarded to feed the governing leaders’ excessive need for power. The result was a ruined nation and calamity on a more horrendous scale than has been seen in the known history of the world.
Parental rights have been threatened recently by government officials who believe they are better judges of a child’s needs than the child’s own parents. In Texas, the government found it acceptable to forcibly remove over 400 children because of the place they lived and the religion they practiced. In California, the government has ruled that parents are not qualified to teach their own children. If this sort of governing is allowed to continue, parents will have little influence over their own children. The heartless discipline of the government will substitute the loving guidance of parents.
While government intervention is required at times to protect children from violent or neglectful parents, that intervention should be as limited as possible. It is impossible for an impartial judge with limited knowledge of a child’s personality to determine what is best for the child. Parents, despite their many weaknesses, have one vital strength that should supersede any other claim for authority: they love their children. Because of this, parents should retain as much authority over their children as possible.
Love cannot be replaced. There is no greater ruler than the leader who loves his charges. Children will thrive better in such an environment, with all its imperfections, than in any other place. The rights of parents should be supported at all costs.
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Post CommentIcyCucky
On July 3, 2008 at 8:22 pm
I’ve heard of both cases you mentioned Texas, and California..A group of home school moms asked me to sign the petition for the right to teach your children, and I did.
Parents are their children first teacher! Great article!
Fit Single Parent
On February 1, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Yes, this is true. Fit custodial parents are losing their natural rights to raise their children by their own “best lights”. I say fit parents, not neglectful, abusive, or criminal parents. Those parents have forfeited their parental rights. I am referring to good parents who work hard to raise good children. We are losing our rights as fit parents to raise our children. A specific example is the so-called “grandparent visitation rights” statutes in many states. These statutes are specifically designed to allow county court judges to trample over even the fittest parent’s decision about who spends unsupervised time with their children. In most cases, the law turns only on the “single” marital status of the parent. So the states are discriminating against single parents not for their job of raising their children, but because they are unmarried, for whatever reason. Does this sound like the kind of America you want to live in? It sounds like we are on the slippery slpoe to communism…