CRC Wants to Tell You How To Raise Your Children!
I am posting this whole article because I got it by e-mail and they haven't posted it on their website yet.
The legal ramifications of this concern me because I already have opposition to my bringing up my kids in the Catholic faith.
I think some of their "possible outcomes" are a tad far-fetched... but then who thought polygamy in Canada would ever even be considered and it is being seriously considered in BC courts at this very time...
Here is the e-mail I received from UFI:
Being a parent is one of the greatest joys we have in this world. Being able to guide, direct, encourage and support your child is what being a parent is all about. That could all come to an end for parents all over the world if the treaty named the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is ratified. Currently, only two countries have not ratified this treaty: the United States and Somalia. This treaty will substantially change the rights parents have to raise their children and will treat the government as an equal partner in the parenting process.
Today, as a parent, you can choose how to educate your child about your religion. You get to decide how to teach them about homosexuality, chastity, morality and abstinence. If you feel that your child needs discipline - you get to decide what that discipline will be and how it will be administered. These are the choices and responsibilities that come with being a parent.
However, the CRC treaty mandates that children will have the right to appeal any of these decisions made by their parents. Parents will not be given the right to teach their children about their religion or impart their moral standards and wisdom. Children can appeal any disciplinary actions that parents want to impose. Government would then decide whether that discipline was appropriate or not.
This should concern all parents! Senator Barbara Boxer, this past December, announced that the CRC would be ratified by the Senate within two years. President Obama announced that by ratifying this treaty we would once again "resume our global leadership in human rights".
During the next two weeks while United Families International is attending the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations, we will be focused on fighting the language contained in this treaty. You can monitor our progress at the CSW blog by clicking here! While we will be focused on issues like abortion and homosexual rights, we will also be working to stop this treaty from being incorporated into the document which will be signed by countries around the world. We will be working to protect the rights of parents to determine how their children will be raised. If protecting your rights is important to you, please consider making a $20, $50 or even $100 donation today to help us continue to protect your family.
Thank You,
Beverly Rice
PresidentUnited Families International
Children's Rights Create Confusion Over the Role of Parent
At every stage of life, there is no greater resource and refuge for a child than the love of a parent. Time and time again, studies have found and affirmed that the nurture and love of parents plays a crucial role in positively shaping the future of their children." - parentalrights.org
The rights of parents to raise and protect their children have been a long standing tradition around the world and in American history. That right is now being threatened! An international attitude of preferring the state over the parent is becoming more pervasive and alarming as more and more activists in the international community seek to transform parental rights into parental responsibilities and then assume it is the right of government to enforce those responsibilities over parent's wishes. This concept has manifested itself into an international treaty called the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC).
Regardless of how well intentioned government may be, it can never replace the love and nurture of a parent in the life of a child.
What Are Children's Rights?
Almost all jurisdictions recognize basic rights for children. Children have a right to have food, shelter, receive education, etc. Legal rights also include the right not to be physically, sexually or emotionally abused. These rights are afforded to all human beings regardless of age. And, no one would deny them. The concern arises when "moral theory" becomes binding law directed by an international treaty.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was adopted at the UN in 1989. All but two member nations have ratified the treaty - one being the United States. The CRC is a treaty that mandates a broad range of rights to children, based on the right to have their "best interests" be "a primary consideration" in every aspect of life; the 'inherent right to life' (Article 6), and the right of a child "who is capable of forming his or her own views ... to express these views freely in all matters affecting the child" (Article 12) (United Nations 1989). What the treaty does not recognize is the difference between basic human rights of a child and the philosophical or moral duties of parents. Children do not have the cognitive skills to determine what is in their "best interest"; societies and governments have left that role to the family...until now.
The End of Parental Rights and National Sovereignty in the US?
In the U.S. the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, is one vote away from ratification. If the treaty is ratified, and all signs are it will be, the U.N., with the support of the Obama Administration and the liberal U.S. Congress, will turn the fundamental unit of society - the family, into government regulated child care.
U.N. treaties are overseen by appointed U.N. commissions that take precedence over national and state law. Imagine the U.S. being ruled by international law designed and implemented by non-elected foreign delegates with no possibility of redress!
Commission on the Status of Women: A Battle Against Families
Monday, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women - 53rd session (CSW) began. For decades, anti-family forces have been at work trying to destroy the family and society as we know it, including motherhood, fatherhood and the family.
United Families is there and poised to monitor the status and suggest changes to the CSW "Agreed Outcome" Document as it makes it way through the process. So far, every indication leads us to believe that the 53rd CSW and the "Agreed Outcome" Document is a ruse for pushing the ratification of two treaties, abortion on demand, and homosexual rights. The CRC and CEDAW (The Convention on Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women) are highlighted throughout the Document as key to achieving human rights for women without regard to the rights of parents, nations, cultures and religious beliefs. The initial draft Document includes language that: "urges Governments, in cooperation with the United Nations system to take the following actions: ... b. Ratify without reservations, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, including the Optional Protocols thereto, and the concluding comments of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
The Consequences of the CRC
Michael Farris, president of ParentalRights.org, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association and chancellor of Patrick Henry College has been quoted as saying that the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, or CRC, will allow the government to review every major decision a parent makes to decide whether it is in the child's best interest. Of course, a "child's best interest" is in context of the individual child, not within the family unit.
The CRC treaty creates very specific rights for every child, including social, religious, cultural, economic, etc. Some of these rights are well-intentioned. For instance, the treaty calls on governments to protect the child from sexual abuse and child slavery. It recognizes that parents or legal guardians "have primary responsibility for the upbringing and development of the child," but in the end parents' decisions can be trumped by government on behalf of "the child's best interest"; whatever that means. Possible Consequences to Ratification of the CRC include:
Every major decision regarding your child will be overseen by your local Child Protective Service Agency through government social workers.
Parents who require their child to go to church, do certain chores, eat certain foods, tend to younger siblings, etc. can be reported to government authorities by their rebellious children.
Children will choose what religion they will join and if and when they will attend services.
Family leisure activities and strictness of chores will be determined by government.
Nations will be required to spend more on child welfare than on national defense.
Religious schools and home schooling may be forced to close down.
Parents will be mandated to keep their children in all sex education classes.
Children will have the right to all reproductive health services, including abortions, without parental knowledge or consent.
The result of such a law has a real possibility of causing mass confusion on the part of families; children being raised without boundaries and parents will parent with fear of reprisal. Child abuse and neglect will no doubt escalate. Orphanages will re-emerge to meet the demand for child placements and children will be removed from their homes in record numbers. An already overburdened and failing child welfare system will create a generation of children with mental health problems and juvenile delinquency. Families are the foundation of society. We must not allow the integrity of the family and parents to be destroyed by senseless government intervention and international laws and norms.
What you Can Do to Stop CRC
Join United Families as we continue our fight to preserve a future for the family.
1. Call your Congressmen and Senators and tell them we do not want the CRC ratified.
2. Email the US representative to the UN Commission of the Status of Women and head of the US delegation(put in subject line attention: Meryl Frank) and tell her we do not want language in the outcome document that mandates the ratification of the CRC or CDAW. Do it today! Our children and the future of society depend on it.
FOLLOW UFI AT THE UN!
Check out the CSW blog for a unique look inside of the United Nations and for special insight as to why we should all be concerned with the happening of the UN! Click HERE to check it out!
Please donate $20, $50 or $100 to protect your parental rights. We cannot do it without you.
Please Forward This On To Others Concerned About The Family
Home Page
Contact UFI
UNITED FAMILIES INTERNATIONAL
PO Box 14908
Irvine, CA 92623
U.S.A.
Phone: (877) 435-7834Fax: (480) 892-4417
Web site: http://www.unitedfamilies.org/
E-mail: ufi@unitedfamilies.org
The legal ramifications of this concern me because I already have opposition to my bringing up my kids in the Catholic faith.
I think some of their "possible outcomes" are a tad far-fetched... but then who thought polygamy in Canada would ever even be considered and it is being seriously considered in BC courts at this very time...
Here is the e-mail I received from UFI:
Being a parent is one of the greatest joys we have in this world. Being able to guide, direct, encourage and support your child is what being a parent is all about. That could all come to an end for parents all over the world if the treaty named the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is ratified. Currently, only two countries have not ratified this treaty: the United States and Somalia. This treaty will substantially change the rights parents have to raise their children and will treat the government as an equal partner in the parenting process.
Today, as a parent, you can choose how to educate your child about your religion. You get to decide how to teach them about homosexuality, chastity, morality and abstinence. If you feel that your child needs discipline - you get to decide what that discipline will be and how it will be administered. These are the choices and responsibilities that come with being a parent.
However, the CRC treaty mandates that children will have the right to appeal any of these decisions made by their parents. Parents will not be given the right to teach their children about their religion or impart their moral standards and wisdom. Children can appeal any disciplinary actions that parents want to impose. Government would then decide whether that discipline was appropriate or not.
This should concern all parents! Senator Barbara Boxer, this past December, announced that the CRC would be ratified by the Senate within two years. President Obama announced that by ratifying this treaty we would once again "resume our global leadership in human rights".
During the next two weeks while United Families International is attending the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations, we will be focused on fighting the language contained in this treaty. You can monitor our progress at the CSW blog by clicking here! While we will be focused on issues like abortion and homosexual rights, we will also be working to stop this treaty from being incorporated into the document which will be signed by countries around the world. We will be working to protect the rights of parents to determine how their children will be raised. If protecting your rights is important to you, please consider making a $20, $50 or even $100 donation today to help us continue to protect your family.
Thank You,
Beverly Rice
PresidentUnited Families International
Children's Rights Create Confusion Over the Role of Parent
At every stage of life, there is no greater resource and refuge for a child than the love of a parent. Time and time again, studies have found and affirmed that the nurture and love of parents plays a crucial role in positively shaping the future of their children." - parentalrights.org
The rights of parents to raise and protect their children have been a long standing tradition around the world and in American history. That right is now being threatened! An international attitude of preferring the state over the parent is becoming more pervasive and alarming as more and more activists in the international community seek to transform parental rights into parental responsibilities and then assume it is the right of government to enforce those responsibilities over parent's wishes. This concept has manifested itself into an international treaty called the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC).
Regardless of how well intentioned government may be, it can never replace the love and nurture of a parent in the life of a child.
What Are Children's Rights?
Almost all jurisdictions recognize basic rights for children. Children have a right to have food, shelter, receive education, etc. Legal rights also include the right not to be physically, sexually or emotionally abused. These rights are afforded to all human beings regardless of age. And, no one would deny them. The concern arises when "moral theory" becomes binding law directed by an international treaty.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was adopted at the UN in 1989. All but two member nations have ratified the treaty - one being the United States. The CRC is a treaty that mandates a broad range of rights to children, based on the right to have their "best interests" be "a primary consideration" in every aspect of life; the 'inherent right to life' (Article 6), and the right of a child "who is capable of forming his or her own views ... to express these views freely in all matters affecting the child" (Article 12) (United Nations 1989). What the treaty does not recognize is the difference between basic human rights of a child and the philosophical or moral duties of parents. Children do not have the cognitive skills to determine what is in their "best interest"; societies and governments have left that role to the family...until now.
The End of Parental Rights and National Sovereignty in the US?
In the U.S. the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, is one vote away from ratification. If the treaty is ratified, and all signs are it will be, the U.N., with the support of the Obama Administration and the liberal U.S. Congress, will turn the fundamental unit of society - the family, into government regulated child care.
U.N. treaties are overseen by appointed U.N. commissions that take precedence over national and state law. Imagine the U.S. being ruled by international law designed and implemented by non-elected foreign delegates with no possibility of redress!
Commission on the Status of Women: A Battle Against Families
Monday, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women - 53rd session (CSW) began. For decades, anti-family forces have been at work trying to destroy the family and society as we know it, including motherhood, fatherhood and the family.
United Families is there and poised to monitor the status and suggest changes to the CSW "Agreed Outcome" Document as it makes it way through the process. So far, every indication leads us to believe that the 53rd CSW and the "Agreed Outcome" Document is a ruse for pushing the ratification of two treaties, abortion on demand, and homosexual rights. The CRC and CEDAW (The Convention on Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women) are highlighted throughout the Document as key to achieving human rights for women without regard to the rights of parents, nations, cultures and religious beliefs. The initial draft Document includes language that: "urges Governments, in cooperation with the United Nations system to take the following actions: ... b. Ratify without reservations, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, including the Optional Protocols thereto, and the concluding comments of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
The Consequences of the CRC
Michael Farris, president of ParentalRights.org, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association and chancellor of Patrick Henry College has been quoted as saying that the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, or CRC, will allow the government to review every major decision a parent makes to decide whether it is in the child's best interest. Of course, a "child's best interest" is in context of the individual child, not within the family unit.
The CRC treaty creates very specific rights for every child, including social, religious, cultural, economic, etc. Some of these rights are well-intentioned. For instance, the treaty calls on governments to protect the child from sexual abuse and child slavery. It recognizes that parents or legal guardians "have primary responsibility for the upbringing and development of the child," but in the end parents' decisions can be trumped by government on behalf of "the child's best interest"; whatever that means. Possible Consequences to Ratification of the CRC include:
Every major decision regarding your child will be overseen by your local Child Protective Service Agency through government social workers.
Parents who require their child to go to church, do certain chores, eat certain foods, tend to younger siblings, etc. can be reported to government authorities by their rebellious children.
Children will choose what religion they will join and if and when they will attend services.
Family leisure activities and strictness of chores will be determined by government.
Nations will be required to spend more on child welfare than on national defense.
Religious schools and home schooling may be forced to close down.
Parents will be mandated to keep their children in all sex education classes.
Children will have the right to all reproductive health services, including abortions, without parental knowledge or consent.
The result of such a law has a real possibility of causing mass confusion on the part of families; children being raised without boundaries and parents will parent with fear of reprisal. Child abuse and neglect will no doubt escalate. Orphanages will re-emerge to meet the demand for child placements and children will be removed from their homes in record numbers. An already overburdened and failing child welfare system will create a generation of children with mental health problems and juvenile delinquency. Families are the foundation of society. We must not allow the integrity of the family and parents to be destroyed by senseless government intervention and international laws and norms.
What you Can Do to Stop CRC
Join United Families as we continue our fight to preserve a future for the family.
1. Call your Congressmen and Senators and tell them we do not want the CRC ratified.
2. Email the US representative to the UN Commission of the Status of Women and head of the US delegation(put in subject line attention: Meryl Frank) and tell her we do not want language in the outcome document that mandates the ratification of the CRC or CDAW. Do it today! Our children and the future of society depend on it.
FOLLOW UFI AT THE UN!
Check out the CSW blog for a unique look inside of the United Nations and for special insight as to why we should all be concerned with the happening of the UN! Click HERE to check it out!
Please donate $20, $50 or $100 to protect your parental rights. We cannot do it without you.
Please Forward This On To Others Concerned About The Family
Home Page
Contact UFI
UNITED FAMILIES INTERNATIONAL
PO Box 14908
Irvine, CA 92623
U.S.A.
Phone: (877) 435-7834Fax: (480) 892-4417
Web site: http://www.unitedfamilies.org/
E-mail: ufi@unitedfamilies.org
Where on earth do these guys get their 'information' from. Not ONE of the things that are alleged will happen have happened in all the countries which have signed CRC. I am not sure how well parents fare in Somalia, but I guess they and their kids have a rough deal compared. If the US signs to the CRC, it won't give kids the right to go up to Dad and say "screw you I'm gonna be a towelhead Moslem, and you can't touch me". Let's get real - anyway, the CRC when it says kids can choose their religion also says but their parents are there to give them direction. Anyway if a kid when s/he reaches adulthood, they can choose ANYWAY. What are the neo-con religious types afraid of, that kids may be exposed to other ideas?
ReplyDeleteNow another screwball accusation is that if the CRC is signed, parents won't be able to smack their kids. Plain old hooey - the UK signed up ages ago, and yet recent laws have been passed in the UK which still allows reasonable chastisement.
Then another loco claim that the CRC will somehow overrule federal and state law. That doesn't wash - the US can, like many other nations, enter derogations which will sort that out. The CRC is a set of aspirations not a Treaty which can be enforced in any international court or tribunal. It simply isn't that kind of device, nor ever was meant to be. In Europe the European Convention on Human Rights has some teeth - there is a ECourt of HR to which people can take a case even after the highest court in any country has dealt with the case. Its rulings cannot be enforced but usually governments will do what the ruling specifies. The CRC has no such Court, no right of appeal by children, parents etc. All there is is a Committee of world experts on children, selected by member states of the CRC, and every 5 years each signed up nation presents a report on how well children's rights have been supported, what has not been done etc etc. The great thing is that, at the same time, parents and other bodies not controlled by the govt can also make presentations which usually reveal what has been missed by governments - it is a good way for such people to set the record straight. At the end of this the Committee issues a report with recommendations - that is all these are, they cannot be enforced. Progress is measured by the Committee at the next 5 year review - hardly draconian.
What it does is keep states on their toes - they don't like criticism, of course.
So the current hysteria is simply that - plus some common-or-garden anti-UN rhetoric.
If people are going to campaign against CRC ratification, they should get their facts right. If what is alleged is at all true, then there would be evidence from other countries. If there are things done in those countries you can be sure it's because their own governments decided them, not the CRC superstate ....
Jan,
ReplyDeleteI am afraid that you are mistaken. We must stand up for parental rights on all everywhere. I applaud UFI for their initiative and for blowing the whistle on this topic.
Jan, I really hope you are right. According to UFI, only the US and Somalia have not yet ratified this agreement. That means Canada has. I live in Canada. So far, noone has taken away my right to bring up my children in the Catholic faith. But I always worry about it, because in the eventuality that I found myself in some hypothetical Soviet Union-style country, my anti-catholic husband would not be very likely to side with me, the catholic, versus the anti-catholic (anti-religious) government.
ReplyDeleteFrom examples I have seen elsewhere, I do not doubt that, if ever my husband and I were to have some couple meltdown, and go through some horrible divorce, if he ever decided to take my kids away from me, he could probably accuse me of being a catholic extremist, say that he doesn't want his kids being forced against their will to attend mass nor be "indoctrinated with anti-gay and anti-womens' rights" ideas.
I happen to think that the gay lifestyle is a very sad thing. I feel sorry for homosexuals, not hatred. I am pro-life, but I am not anti-woman. Yet in our society, my husband could theoretically use that against me, to try to take away my parental rights, and he would probably win.
So stuff like this just scares me more.
Oh, and this is always my fear when I read something totally conservative or totally liberal... that I am not getting the whole picture. There are extremists and fear-mongerers on both sides, and I hate to fall prey to them.
ReplyDeleteThe fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom! I am an extremist for my Lord and He gave my kids to me not to my government or to the U.N. He also told me to obey my government UNLESS they required something of me that went against His Word. His Word says that I am to raise my children in the fear of the Lord. He also told me not to spare the rod or my children would be spoiled. Obey who you want. Be socialist if you want. Call it fear-mongering if you want. As for me and my house we will serve the Lord! Thanks for posting this article. I think I will post it on my blog for the parents of my homeschool.
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