Well it’s certainly not the government. What have you seen them do right, ever? We have a Constitution. It doesn’t say anything about governmental rights over parents.
The Constitution is indeed silent on that. At least the letter of the Constitution is, and the word "parents" is not mentioned at all. Granted. However, hiding behind that omission is problematic. Take the following two Amendments, to be used whenever the Constitution happens to be silent on something:
Amendment IX: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Amendment X: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The issue in question is neither delegated to the federal government nor prohibited to the States. And last I checked, children are people too.
And that's *before* we even get into the 14th Amendment either. Or international humanitarian law either, for that matter.
If we had decent child protective services it would be wonderful, however they are many times worse than the parents. Foster parents who do it for money & don’t care about the kids, for example. It’s unfortunate that any idiot can birth a child but there’s not much we can do about it. We can try to have a society that lives by & teaches morals & ethics, but as you can see that hasn’t worked out very well either.
Bad parents make bad decisions, but government is not the solution.
So what is the solution then?
Transparency so parents can make the educated decision how to best protect their children. Parents and rest of the public have been denied the truth.
Well it’s certainly not the government. What have you seen them do right, ever? We have a Constitution. It doesn’t say anything about governmental rights over parents.
The Constitution is indeed silent on that. At least the letter of the Constitution is, and the word "parents" is not mentioned at all. Granted. However, hiding behind that omission is problematic. Take the following two Amendments, to be used whenever the Constitution happens to be silent on something:
Amendment IX: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Amendment X: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The issue in question is neither delegated to the federal government nor prohibited to the States. And last I checked, children are people too.
And that's *before* we even get into the 14th Amendment either. Or international humanitarian law either, for that matter.
QED
If we had decent child protective services it would be wonderful, however they are many times worse than the parents. Foster parents who do it for money & don’t care about the kids, for example. It’s unfortunate that any idiot can birth a child but there’s not much we can do about it. We can try to have a society that lives by & teaches morals & ethics, but as you can see that hasn’t worked out very well either.
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