This article is from the Volume 19 of the Parent’s Reviews (a newsletter edited by Charlotte Mason, with articles written about her educational philosophy). It was written by L. Nott Bower and originally published in 1908, but I agree with the blogger at archipelago that it is every bit as true about the situation today.
EXCELLENT READING!!!
Part one HERE
Part two HERE
Part three HERE
Part four forthcoming (not sure when)
This movie on the common core looks really interesting!
Here’s the trailer:
Now, according to an appeals court, a hospital can force a girl to have a second round of chemo even if the girl herself and her parents refuse the treatment.
Judge John Lohn, the trial court judge who was overruled by the appellate court, wrote in his decision (denying the hospital’s request to appoint a nurse as guardian for the girl and force her to undergo chemo):
“The court cannot deprive these parents of their right to make medical decisions for their daughter because there is not a scintilla of evidence showing the parents are unfit.”
So, a court already ruled the parents to be completely fit and capable of making this decision. Oh, and her scans and tests show that she is already 100% cancer free! This is getting scary, people.
I’m quoting from the article written by theHealthyHomeEconomist (linked below):
With this outrageous decision, the noose has tightened further around the necks of parents to accept conventional medical treatments without question even when there is intense suffering and long term, life altering and irreversible physical damage from the treatments.
It used to be that parental authority was taken away only from unfit caregivers, but now, even loving, protective and concerned parents who are found by a court of law to be completely capable to parent their child are having their authority stripped by medicos with a completely different worldview.
The fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing and care of their children urgently requires legal protection from a conventionally minded establishment that increasingly seeks to collectivize child rearing particularly at a medical level.
Read the whole story here:
and here:
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/court-denies-hospital-plea-for-guardianship-of-amish-girl/
Patriot Voices Press Conference to Oppose CRPD, November 26, 2012 – YouTube.
For the reasons explained in this video, I vehemently oppose this treaty (as well as the UN Treaty on Rights of the Child). As a mother of a child with a disability, I strongly believe that parents should be the decision-makers for what is in their child’s best interest and NOT a group of unelected officials. Please join me in fighting to preserve our autonomy in this area.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Treaty is THE most CRITICAL issue at stake today. I should have posted this in my post yesterday about CPS taking a baby after the parents sought a second opinion from a doctor about a (non-emergency) surgery. I found a really shocking movie about parental rights in America. It’s FREE. If you watch nothing else I recommend, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE watch this.
Watch it HERE.
Parental Rights are being eroded. Parentalrights.org is fighting for the rights of parents to raise their children as they see fit. Parents all over America are losing their rights and don’t even know it. If you care about your rights as a parent, please share this video with your family and friends. Featuring three reenactments based on real cases, “Overruled” is a shocking 35-minute docudrama that exposes how the rights of parents in America are being eroded and what you can do to turn the tide.
Here’s how you can help:
1. Sign the petition at http://www.ParentalRights.org
2. Tell others about http://www.overruledmovie.com
3. Write your local paper
4. Contact your Congressman
5. Make a donation at http://www.ParentalRights.org
Well, another example of the police state in the news. Read the story from parentalrights.org HERE
Here’s the short version of the story: Parents were told their five month old baby needed a surgery (for a heart murmer – NOT an urgent issue). Parents take baby directly to second hospital for second opinion. The next day, police and CPS come to their home and take baby away from parents for “severe neglect” and with no warrant to enter the home.
The scary thing is that this is NOT an isolated incident.
HERE is another story, this time of a newborn baby being taken away from the parents, again with NO EMERGENCY, no allegation of abuse or anything like that. It seems that the issue was that the hospital staff was pissed that parents were questioning their procedures or maybe that the parents wanted to have the baby at home (the disagreement was about immunizations at birth). The baby was born in an ambulance in the parking lot of the hospital, but had intended to have a home birth. Sorry, but I can’t find the link to this article – I will come back and edit when I find the link
HERE is the story of a high school student put into foster care (without even notifying the parents) by a school worker. The “abuse” alleged was because the parents took the child to church three times a week and the social worker thought that was too much. Sorry, but I can’t find the link to this article either – I will come back and edit when I find the link
HERE is footage of political science professor and MSNBC host essentially saying, “Your kids belong to us.”
HERE is a very informative article written by Nancy Schaefer: “The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services”
The recommendations at the end are really excellent and here are the closing remarks:
On my desk are scores of cases of exhausted families and terrified children. It has been beyond me to turn my back on these suffering, crying, and beaten down individuals. We are mistreating the most innocent. Child Protective Services have become an adult centered business to the detriment of children. No longer is judgment based on what the child needs or who the child wants to be or with whom, or what is really best for the whole family; it is some adult or bureaucrat who makes the decisions, based often on just hearsay, without ever consulting a family member, or just what is convenient, profitable, or less troublesome for the social workers.
I have witnessed such injustice and harm brought to so many families that I am not sure if I even believe reform of the system is possible! The system cannot be trusted. It does not serve the people. It obliterates families and children simply because it has the power to do so.
Children deserve better. Families deserve better. It’s time to pull back the curtain and set our children and families free.
