I am not a legal expert. I’m just a mom. I’m a mom who praises the Lord that we still live in a country in which my husband and I can make choices in our child’s best-interest, based on the fact that we are the parents. Although there have been countless stories of the slow-fade of parental rights in America. Those chilling stories that I read in horror, as I secretly thank the Lord those stories aren’t my own.
But they could be.
A court deciding what is in the “best interest” of our children. A far-reaching government – local, state, and federal – dictating rules, regulations, and breathing down hot injustice on our happy home. Our home where we cling to Jesus, seek truth, and follow hard after the Lord.
We don’t want the government, in any form or fashion, parenting our children.
I’ve done my best to keep up with the UN Rights of the Child treaty for several years. If you are unaware of what exactly this treaty brings with it, please spend some time on ParentalRights.org. From my understanding it gets down to the stripping of decision-making rights from parents, and hands parental authority over to courts. More bone chilling than that, international law would superseded our American laws.
This doesn’t sit well with me.
Please watch Overruled: Government Invasion of your Parental Rights
Here is the official update and press release from HSLDA from 11/27/12 on the current status of this situation: “Yesterday afternoon, parental rights advocates cried foul as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that the Senate will vote this weeks, possibly as early as Wednesday to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) treaty.
CRPD calls for numerous protections for people with disabilities. While many of these protections are already provided for in the U.S. by the Americans with Disabilities Act, additional provisions included in the treaty concern many U.S. citizens. If ratified, the CRPD would become the supreme law of the land under the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause in Article VI, would trump state laws, and would be used as binding precedent by state and federal judges.
HSLDA Chairman Mike Farris has been rallying opposition to the treaty by reminding voters that “Americans should make the law for America.” He argues that the CRPD would transform the parent-child relationship by establishing a new legal standard found in Article 7 of the treaty: “In all actions concerning children with disabilities, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.”
“Parental rights will be eviscerated by the mandatory application of the ‘best interest of the child’ standard,” Farris said. “If parents think that private education is best for their child, the CRPD gives the government the authority to override that judgment and keep the child in the government-approved program that officials think is best.”
The CRPD was signed by President Obama in July of 2009, but it has not received the necessary two-thirds approval from the United States Senate for ratification. Recently, however, the president has placed additional pressure on the Senate to ratify the treaty.
“The question is, who should make critical decisions regarding the care and raising of children who have disabilities? Their parents or United Nations social workers?” President of HSLDA J. Michael Smith said. “There is no need for the CRPD, as our nation’s state and federal laws already protect our precious loved ones with disabilities. It is outrageous that U.S. senators would support a treaty that surrenders U.S. sovereignty and family integrity to unelected UN bureaucrats.”
This video is the recent press conference held on 11/26/12. “Patriot Voices co-founder Rick Santorum, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Michael Farris of the Home School Legal Defense Association held a press conference on November 26, 2012 to voice their opposition to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).”
Here are several free downloads from ParentalRights.org to help you understand the issues at hand.
Along with staying informed, I’m praying for the work of ParentalRights.org and HSLDA. I’m praying for America, and our God-given rights as parents. Please pray how the Lord would have you help in this situation. God Bless.
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i agree. this is terrifying as is the UN’s agenda 21. really they want to take away all of our rights.
Thank you for this post! This is an issue I have been passionate about since 2008 and have worked locally to get the word out. Thanks for putting it out in the blogging world. Many prayers for the protection of our families and courage of our Senate to say NO!!
It was great meeting you at Allume!
Just to clarify, there are two different treaties mentioned in the post: the UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) and the UNCRPD (United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities). Both carry the same basic (negative!) legal implications, though. (And I’m with you – the fact that treaties supercede U.S. law is one of the scariest parts! Most people don’t recognize this issue, which is unique to the U.S.)
I know Rachel, and I knew that I was not being clear. That’s why I kept pointing people to the sources who can explain it clearly – because I can’t. 😉
I am saddened by this, but I am not surprised. The bigger the government gets in all areas of our lives the more power it wants and the more freedoms it takes away. Did you hear about Delaware? http://www.trueaimeducation.com/2012/09/delaware-further-trashes-parental-rights.html
Well, you didn’t say anything wrong. 🙂 I was just adding clarification in case anyone else didn’t follow. I’m so glad you’re blogging about this!!
The UN is too powerful today with the current admin. UN monitors were watching our elections at the voting polls this year. Our ability to self govern ourselves locally, and in our own states is evaporating. Federal law and the UN together will make self government impossible. It affects parental rights, but also gun rights, and many other areas, our global food and water supplies. We are in trouble.
We adopted a special needs child 2 years ago from the the Philippines. Because of the severe trauma she has experienced in her early years, we deal with a lot of trust/control/abandonment issues. She just now is trusting enough to start therapy and be worked with. We do not put her in the public school system because of the of all these deeper issues that go well beyond her special needs that school therapists aren’t typically trained to deal with. To have her be away from me, our family, and left with a group of strangers who don’t understand adoption issues would be DISASTROUS for our daughter. We would have huge regressions. Another problem, issues that arise from an adoptive child can mirror other problems(autism is a main one), since there are often developmental delays, social issues and so forth. Our daughter would be quickly labeled without this understanding and an approach to her issues would be totally wrong. So I cannot tell you how very concerning this UN crap is to me.