Most of us grew up and became parents when the issue was straightforward. Kids belonged to their parents who had the responsibility to properly raise them. The only time the government had a just cause for interfering was in cases of child abuse, endangerment, or neglect. Some on the left may still say that’s true, except that they have grossly expanded the meaning of those words to allow the government to intervene for most any reason it chooses, including teaching political ideas to your kids that are at variance with those of the far left.
Others just come right out and say that your kids are really the government’s kids.
A British law professor argued in the Guardian on Monday that parents ultimately have no rights when it comes to raising their children.
University College London professor emeritus Ian Kennedy wrote an op-ed on the case of Charlie Gard, an 11-month-old child suffering from a rare and fatal genetic condition. He is currently on life support. Gard’s parent sought to take the child to the United States for an experimental treatment, but were blocked by a U.K. judge.
After a protracted legal battle, the Gards eventually relented when the window for the treatment had passed.
And here is the procedure that this professor proposes. Note the assumption and the result.
“These are the steps. The first is to recognize that children do not belong to their parents,” he wrote.
“Second, when a claim is made that parents have rights over their children, it is important to step back and examine the language used,” he continued. “We need to remind ourselves that parents do not have rights regarding their children, they only have duties, the principal duty being to act in their children’s best interests.”
“If we are concerned with the language of rights, it is, of course, children who have rights; any rights that parents have exist only to protect their children’s rights,” Kennedy concluded.
And with that, parents become servants of the state who are allowed to raise their children, but only consistent with the state’s dictates.
And those ideas are not confined to Great Britain.
Source: Washington Free Beacon
I didn’t!
They don’t belong to a government full of pedophiles, Clinton’s, and Weiners either. (The latter two being worse than your average pedophile) Liberals learning from$#%&!@* the champion of all liberals.
WTF?? This is a Communism & Socialism doctorine
Nazi Germany history repeating itself.
Mine do and their kids belong to me too
Yes, they do; FOREVER!
Said nobody ever, except the Nazis.
Sounds like$#%&!@*s Germany.
Michelle VonAhn It’s interesting that the lesbian’s take is that parents don’t own their children and that they should be raised to be responsible homosexual adults…