Obama to Push UN Law Which Undermines Parents

Back in the 1990s liberals pushed to get the United States to sign on to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Convention on the Rights of the child would ostensibly foster respect for the care, development and needs of children.

Like many things that come out of the UN, it sounds pretty good on the surface, but below the hype and sweet talk, it’s bad news for the American way of life.

Now CNS News reports the liberals are making a fresh push to subject Americans to this:

The Obama administration is reviving efforts to have the United States sign onto a global children’s rights treaty ratified by every U.N. member except the U.S. and Somalia, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said Monday.

Administration officials are actively discussing “when and how it might be possible to join,” Rice, a Cabinet-level official, said while visiting a school in Harlem and fielding a teenager’s specific question about the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.

While one might consider better treatment for children in some of the usual cesspools around the world to be a good thing, once again the Convention on the Rights of the Child would certainly be treated as all measures passed by the UN area treated: law-abiding nations like the U.S. would be expected to toe the line (thus surrendering our sovereignty and our way of life), while the backwards, oppressive nations will get a pass to continue mistreating their own people.

This convention would undermine parental rights by providing a platform to emancipate children from the authority of their parents.  Of course, parents will be expected to provide all the needs of their children…and all the wants of their children.  If children want something, and the almighty state agrees they should have it, then the parents will have to dance.  And if the parents feel the need to spank or otherwise strongly discipline an unruly child, the parent will quickly find that they are a criminal.  They will quickly find that the child, and the child’s guardian (the state), are in charge in the home.

Michael Farris explained a couple of months ago a couple of ways how this usurpation of parental authority would take place:

The law in every American state allows parents to administer reasonable spankings to discipline their children. The UN’s official body on children’s rights has repeatedly ruled that any parental spanking violates the treaty’s requirements. The CRC will trump state laws permitting spanking.

Many school districts allow parents to allow their children to “opt out” from certain controversial courses such as sex education. The UN body holds that such parental involvement violates the treaty. The CRC will trump all state “opt out” laws.

Meanwhile, the moral fiber, cohesiveness and order of society will shift into a still higher gear in its descent into the abyss.

This is one more ultra-Leftist piece of bad news that good Americans in Washington and on the main streets of America should strongly oppose.

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