Published By: All Right Magazine on July 2, 2009

By MAXINE OBERLE

Parental Rights Under Attack

Would you ever have guessed that a child could be taken from your home because you make them attend church with you too often? Or that your child’s babysitters could gain custody of your children as co-parents? Well, you can see those stories and more here: Parentalrights.org

The scary thing is that we can clearly see a disintegration in the courts respect for parents as they pass legislation that allows separation between children and parents when kids need their parents most. For example, the parental notification laws that state a minor child can walk into an abortion clinic without any parental notification what so ever and obtain an abortion.

Homeschooling is also under attack. While some state laws have remained family friendly, some states make it very difficult to homeschool your own children. The state has every right to determine what you may or may not teach your own children, but if you have a problem with what they are learning in public school – well too bad. Public school is becoming nothing more than an indoctrination into the liberal way of thinking, there is no balance.

I will never forget when my son came home from school in first grade one day and had done something to get scolded about. He immediately began to instruct me on how I can’t swat his bottom otherwise he could call social services and I’d get into trouble. Furthermore I could not raise my voice, or punish him “sesivley” (excessively). Well, I don’t remember what the offense was that he was getting into trouble for, but I do remember grabbing the phone that was next to me and telling him that he might as well call, because I was the mom and if I thought he needed discipline that is what he would get. Further, I explained to him that it would be HIM getting taken out of our home, not me. Well, that was a little more information that the teachers had let the kids know, and he thought he might like to stick around a while longer.  The scary thing is that if he had really called, I’m sure it would have meant at least a visit or two from a social worker, a record filed somewhere, and a lot of pain in the butt stuff over something silly.

We have parents being told they are neglecting their children because they did not take them to the hospital after they bumped their head and a nosy neighbor thought they knew better than the parent who happened to be a trained paramedic how bad the bump was. See the story here, or here.
After reading that story I was thinking a few things:

A. Sounds just like a dad fed up with people putting their nose in where it didn’t belong.
B. Sounds like someone who wants to protect their family and rights from exactly what ended up happening.
C. Wonder what the sheriff, social workers etc. would say if the tables were turned and the dad had beat down the kid’s door and forced him to go to the hospital against his will?

We need to stand up for our rights as parents. Our right to raise our children with the morals and values we see fit.

Pay attention, and speak out to your representatives. Let them know you are tired of your rights being pulled away inch by inch.

MAXINE OBERLE is a converted Catholic, homeschooling mom of 5, trying to make sense of politics, religion and life in general. Blog: Pieces of ~Me~

Tags: home schooling, parental rights, Parenting, social services

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