Does the United States Need a Parental Rights Amendment?

[Written by Priscilla King, after following links in an e-mail signed by people known to Yahoo as Victoria, Joe, and Karen]

WARNING: If it's not a link occupying a separate line, until further notice, don't click on it.

C lick here to read a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would safeguard the right of parents not to place their children in day care.

http://www.parentalrights.org/

"Isn't day care expensive? If parents can keep their children out of day care, isn't that good for our struggling national economy, as well as being healthier for the children? Why would anyone want to force parents to place children in day care?"

I think the most rational explanation really is "Because there is an active Evil Principle in the universe that is influencing their minds." However, the Washington Times offers more material history about this effort:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jan/14/treaty-threatens-parents-rights/?page=all

The push to get children out of what are automatically presumed to be inadequate homes, into day care centers where they can be indoctrinated into "global citizenship" and support for totalitarian government, whatever else may happen to them, has been going on for many years. A Senate bill that would have made day care mandatory for children over age two was proposed by Walter Mondale...and was publicized as a reason to vote against him and Jimmy Carter, in the 1970s.

The United Nations' smarmy bid for "The Rights of the Child" to include lots of tax-funded schooling, no spankings, and other things that the United States has consistently labelled anti-parent rather than pro-child power grabs, has been around for more than the twenty years NBC mentions here. Perhaps the version I remember reading in the 1980s was different...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30481716/

So now Senators Pete Hoekstra and Jim DeMint have proposed a Parental Rights Amendment that would automatically block any U.N. efforts to impose U.N. regulations on private homes.

If you're thinking that it might be simpler just to abandon the United Nations...well, you're probably either much older or much younger than I am. If you think that the United Nations is helping keep small, crowded countries from involving the whole world in stupid little wars among themselves, and is thus a good thing, but we all need to stand firm on the idea that the U.N.'s sole purpose is to help negotiate international disputes and that the U.N. has no right even to suggest any agendas for changing the laws within any nation, then you and I are in agreement.