An Attack on Parental Rights

An Attack on Parental Rights

By

James Scott Trimm

In my most recent blog, The Unfair Attack on Judge Haddock, I wrote:

I fear that because a tragedy occurred, many now ask why the government did not prevent it.  But remember, it is not the government’s job to prevent any bad thing from ever happening.  And we do not want to exchange the sanctity of parental rights for more security, even for children.

The road being paved by these ostensibly “good intentions” ultimately leads to an erosion of a parent’s right to raise their children according to their own conscience.   

This is accented by one reader’s reaction to my blog as it was posted on the Tarrant Families Matter Facebook Page by Erinn Hall, a self-described “child welfare” worker.  She responded to my blog writing:

Kids have zero rights. A parent's liberty is not more important than a child's safety and welfare. It's not a "nanny state" that protects children. It's what we are all supposed to be called to do. These ideals are cute but only serve to allow people to turn a blind eye & leave kids in unhealthy, dysfunctional environments only to grow up and continue a cycle that drains our system and turns forgotten/ignored/abused kids into messed up adults. It's not right and it's not an invasive nanny state - it's morality.,,,

I work in child welfare. People rarely intervene when they should. Adult rights win over children's far more often than is appropriate. Any use of the "nanny state" scare is inappropriate where kids are concerned. Especially in a culture that uses religion for so many other issues & initiatives (teaching certain subjects in school, abortion, access to birth control, vaccinating your kids, etc.). These moral crusades should set out to save & protect kids rather than shield judges & parents who aren't doing their jobs.

Beware!  These people want the government to interfere in your religious upbringing of your own children.  They want the government to control what your children are taught.  They don’t want you to be allowed to homeschool.  They want  the government to decide whether or not to vaccinate your children.  They want government to guarantee your child’s right to get an abortion without your consent.  They want the government to provide your child birth control without your consent. 

These people think that parents who don’t send their kids to public school, who don’t vaccinate, who do not allow their children access to birth control and even abortions “aren’t doing their jobs” and that judges should be removing their children from their homes.

Don’t be fooled into following a path that leads to the destruction of the American Family as we know it.