Child Safety Issue or Assault on Parental Rights?
When Obama’s Department of Labor tried to force new “child safety” regulations down the throats of farmers and ranchers, was it for child safety or the denial of parental rights?
The regulations, which would have dictated children’s chore charts, were so overbearing that teenagers would have needed Washington’s approval to operate a power washer. By limiting what children under 18 could do, farmers would have been scrambling to find hired help. Not only would that have denied their children the experience of developing a work ethic and learning the family trade, but it would have put a bigger financial burden on farmers to look outside the family for workers.
After taking a verbal pummeling on the issue, the Labor Department acknowledged its overreach and the regulations were withdrawn.
Under the guise of “child safety,” the administration has muscled its way into everything from brown bag lunches to interstate abortions. In every instance, the President is testing the boundaries to see how far the government can encroach before parents object. This round goes to the forces of freedom.
But even now, the administration is pushing a global agenda of “children’s rights” that transfers the decision-making and responsibilities of child-rearing to the international community. The President supports the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a treaty that would handcuff parents on issues like religion and morality. Under the CRC, “children choose their own religion and parents have only the right to ‘advise’ them.” On matters like abortion or abstinence, the administration agrees with the UN that International Planned Parenthood should have unilateral access to children to teach their version of “reproductive rights.”
In his “Race to the Top” program, the White House muscles out parents from school choice, and his opposition to the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA) bars them from a daughter’s pregnancy “choice.”
So while the Labor announcement is worth celebrating, it is a clear warning of what parents can expect from “Whispering” Obama when he has “more flexibility.”
***Ed Randazzo, is a nationally syndicated author. He has been a conservative activist and consultant for over 30 years and is currently the Chief News Editor of Life and Liberty Media***
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