ParentalRights.org
Friends and Family, Please take the time to check out this website. It is really important that as many people as possible join this campaign by signing their petition. ParentalRights.org brings together everyone who agrees that the vital role of parents in the lives of children should not be undermined by government action or policy. I'm standing with them and you should too! I may not have kids right now, but I want the right to be the parent that God calls me to be when that day does come!
ParentalRights.org This is very critical for the families futures !!!
Hugs,
Crystal
UPDATE:
I admit that finding the big picture of this site is a little hard to get in just a couple clicks of the mouse. I hope the comments I've made to this post make clear some of the issues and also this video is worth viewing for clarification...
ParentalRights.org This is very critical for the families futures !!!
Hugs,
Crystal
UPDATE:
I admit that finding the big picture of this site is a little hard to get in just a couple clicks of the mouse. I hope the comments I've made to this post make clear some of the issues and also this video is worth viewing for clarification...
Labels: family planning, politics
posted by Celestial Freak @ 5/13/2008 12:15:00 PM
4 Comments:
I'm not going to pretend that I read all of the info on that web page, but from what I did read this just looks like it would be a loop hole for people like Renda to swoop in after months or years of not participating in their kids' lives and demand to be a parent again. I do think it has some good and valid ideas, but it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth I guess.
Im going to read more abotu this!! I want to know how it will affect current rights of kids who are neglected or abused!! The system is so screwed up, its hard to tell how something will affect another!
I know there are awful people out there who do not deserve to be parents. I don't think this focus would deny that those types of people shouldn't have any contact with their children. This more is a focus on unnecessary legislation that wants to make spanking illegal or that raising a child in the Christian faith is a form of child abuse. There is a certain form of parenting that is abuse and there is a certain form of parenting that some in the world can't understand. It doesn't mean they are the same. I don't see spanking (just a plain old tap on the backside) as abuse, but someone who'll shake a baby to death makes me sick to my stomach. There is a difference. Some out there don't see any difference and are out to punish Christians for following a biblical approach to discipline. Yes, I don't have kids so some may wonder what it matters to me. But as Kevin and I have looked at different adoption agencies and state laws, it feels like a parents rights are sometimes the last thing considered.
I don't think anyone involved in this campaign would be out to let parents who would abuse or neglect their children have rights to them again, but instead this is to protect the rights of parents who are good parents and are being punished for raising their children in a Christian home.
An example I have is we want to homeschool our future children, some states have unnecessary rules and restictions on doing so. We want to be able to monitor and shape the education our future children have, believing that a parent is the best person to teach a child. We do not want the state to require our children to have to attend a school only to be exposed to bad behaviors and unsolicited "education" that goes against our faith.
The majority of homeschool children are very bright and usually a year or two ahead of grade level, this is quite an advantage. Some who try to legistlate against homeschooler families say that the children get a sub-par education, and upon closer look that simply is not true.
We want the right to our children's education, we have seen the ways public education failed us, and we want to offer our future children something better.
That's just another part of this group and what they support.
I would never advocate a group that would allow abuse or neglect. As someone who quite possibly may end up adopting from foster care, I'm aware of the differences out there.
It's sad that in a day and age like today the Christian home is under such an attack as to be treated in the same way and lumped together with people who truly shouldn't have anything to do with children.
It also saddens me that legislation is used so heavily as ammunition against differing faiths. There is a difference between disagreeing and what really is a threat to humanity. Christianity is not a threat to humanity.
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