The debate over to whom children ultimately belong is one that has been growing in intensity for some decades. It’s actually not all that new, as governments have argued for greater or lesser control over the children within their jurisdictions for millennia. It just so happens that we’ve been in an era of bigger government, hence the desire by some in government to usurp parents’ rights and responsibilities has grown.
Hillary Clinton inserted herself into the debate years ago, asserting that it “Takes a Village” to properly raise a child as she pronounced in her book. This is the leftist position she maintains and continues to promote. Raising children is ultimately up to the government, she avers, as though anyone with his or her children’s best interests at heart would want them to grow up to be like the Clintons.
But it’s not just Hillary who is on the wrong side of this issue. There are many in academia who are proposing similar theories. Pushed to the extreme, it become a policy of either raise your kids within government guidelines, or the government will seize them and raise them for you.
More on where this trend is going is on page two.
Torally agree
Oh yes they do!
Guardian: go to hell!
That’s a load of c**p!
No, they belong to peter pan.
Now you won’t be able to say My daughter just graduated or my son joined the marines.$10,000 fine. This c**p just never ends does it?
Hillary had it wrong, it takes a village to protect the child but not to raise it.
What mind? She has none!
Children are free persons just like their parents. They don’t “belong” to anyone. The Constitution of the United States of America equally applies to children as ir does adults. However, God (in reality) some may say “fate” or what ever one may like to believe has charged the woman they came out of, and the booty slapping man who joyously and mindlessly was busy putting them in her (the parents) with the responsibilities, the joys and curses of seeing that these little ones become men and women so the process repeats over and over. Until such time comes, the parents are to nutrify, nurture and strong arm them toward that end to take the same responsibilities for that 5÷15 minutes of gleeful gyrations with reason hanging out on the ledge fighting for its very life, the cruel cold realization behind the 9 month sentence following the “honey, guess what?” No both are facing 18-26 years of making this little one a man or woman, and needs the frikkin’ village to stay the hell out of their business so that can happen.
States kidnap children over victimless crimes all the time and everyone just says well that’s the law…