The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

If you are a parent or grandparent or will be a parent one day you need to be aware of what the United Nations wants to take away from you. It seems that our government thinks they can raise our children better than we can. If this treaty is made binding upon our country, the government would have the power to intervene in any child's life to advance its definition of "the best interests of the child."Under the UNCRC, instead of following due process, government agencies would have the power to override your parental choices at their whim because they determine what is in "the best interest of the child." Let's say you ground your daughter because you found out she was using drugs and having sex with her boyfriend. Hopefully this is what every parent would do. She decides to tell her counselor at school and is told by her counselor to call CPS and she follows the advice and is taken out of her parents home and placed in a foster home. Sound a little far fetched? This happened in the early 1980's in Washington State, see here. Here are two of the things you need to know about the substance of the CRC; 1.The best interest of the child principle would give the government the ability to override every decision made by every parent if a government worker disagreed with the parent’s decision. 2. A child’s “right to be heard” would allow him (or her) to seek governmental review of every parental decision with which the child disagreed. To see more of the substance of the CRC go here. I would encourage you to go to parentalrights.org and get informed on what is threatening your rights as a parent.