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Who Raises Your Child — You or the ‘Village’?
American Thinker ^ | 8 Oct, 2024 | Deane Waldman, M.D.

Posted on 10/08/2024 5:58:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The latest assault on parental rights and responsibilities from the Biden-Harris regime in Washington.

In 2012, Hillary Clinton popularized an old African saying, “It takes a village to raise a child,” meaning the whole community should be involved in turning a small child into a productive adult member of society. Progressives have surreptitiously replaced village with government. Witness their latest assault on parental rights and responsibilities added to all previous federal incursions.

The Biden-Harris administration just released its “comprehensive guidance” regarding what medical care 38 million Medicaid/CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) under-18 enrollees will receive and will be denied. Never mind what parents think or what pediatricians advise.

Full disclosure: This author is a pediatrician, father, and grandfather.

Even the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) has fallen prey to the substitution of officialdom for parental judgment. They added the poorly tested, medically dangerous CoViD genetic treatment (not a vaccine) to the routine childhood vaccination schedule. Follow-up data has shown children are in greater danger from the CoViD jab than the infection.

Deciding proper medical care is simply one more act of federal regulatory takeover of the role of parents. This became obvious during the height of Washington’s CoViD scam.

Everywhere in the country, children large and small, even babies, had to wear surgical masks by federal order. Never mind that children were not at risk from CoViD, that masks do not protect from infection, or that masks were contaminated with bacteria that caused diseases like Lyme disease, meningitis, and tuberculosis. Parents who did not want to “facemask” their children were risking the wrath of the “village,” the government.

Researchers who tried to publish information contrary to Anthony Fauci’s pronouncements were censored, canceled, and banned from online outlets. So, when parents sought information to discharge their responsibility for their children’s health

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: leftism
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1 posted on 10/08/2024 5:58:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The left has greatly accelerated their totalitarian push. Most democRATs don’t even notice it.


2 posted on 10/08/2024 5:58:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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It takes a village to raise an idiot.


3 posted on 10/08/2024 6:01:25 AM PDT by period end of story (Unvaxxed for my protection.)
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To: MtnClimber

Send your children to public school?
Let your kids spend time on social media everyday?
Let pop culture into your home?

The “village” is raising them


4 posted on 10/08/2024 6:06:03 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: MtnClimber

‘Hillary Clinton popularized an old African saying, “It takes a village to raise a child,”’

Hillary Clinton popularized an old Democratic saying, “It takes the government to raise your child,”

There, fixed it


5 posted on 10/08/2024 6:08:41 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: MtnClimber

It takes an African village to raise a child.


6 posted on 10/08/2024 6:17:13 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: MtnClimber
It takes a "village" to operate a world-spanning con game.

The Clinton Initiative is a village of like-minded grifters. The Democrat Party's National Committee is a village of liars and cheats. The EU Commission is a village of authoritarians. The culture of the West is being consistently attacked by little villages of like-minded fascists and socialists. And the chiefs in all these little villages are amassing riches for themselves, as is among their goals.

7 posted on 10/08/2024 6:19:15 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: MtnClimber

Is “The Village” going to prison when a child shoots up a school?


8 posted on 10/08/2024 6:21:31 AM PDT by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: MtnClimber

since parents release kids to the public school system, yes in a sense a village does have a big impact. A village of idiots.


9 posted on 10/08/2024 6:21:53 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
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To: MtnClimber

Not to change the subject but the “it takes a village” concept is what those in North Carolina are doing to recover and yet the Federal government tries to stop the Village! So guess the Government is ok with a “village” when it’s the Government masquerading as the “village”…..


10 posted on 10/08/2024 6:23:47 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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11 posted on 10/08/2024 6:25:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


12 posted on 10/08/2024 6:32:45 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber
It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?


13 posted on 10/08/2024 6:35:24 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth!)
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To: dfwgator

I see what you did there.

Who is Number 1?


14 posted on 10/08/2024 6:36:02 AM PDT by left that other site ("Providence" ain't just a city in Rhode Island.)
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To: left that other site

You are Number Six!


15 posted on 10/08/2024 6:37:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I’m Not a Number!

:-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcq2Ape4DTw&list=PLFR78Uf6Xh3hdTxbd2rFlUSOJt1TaKzMw&index=1


16 posted on 10/08/2024 6:41:33 AM PDT by left that other site ("Providence" ain't just a city in Rhode Island.)
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To: antidemoncrat
Hillary Clinton popularized an old Democratic saying, “It takes the government to raise your child,”

Precisely!

To some extent every village/culture "raises" a child, but western civilization moved beyond the "old African" view of family and village early on - at least for the most part.

17 posted on 10/08/2024 7:07:36 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Democrat Party = 1/2 leftists + 1/2 useful idiots. Jan 6, 2025 may be our last call.)
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To: MtnClimber

Bfl


18 posted on 10/08/2024 7:31:32 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: MtnClimber
In primitive African culture, the village is also the extended family. Aunts, uncles, cousins, not just mom and dad.

In Hillaryism, the "village" is a bunch of men with guns who expect to be paid.

19 posted on 10/08/2024 10:09:10 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: MtnClimber
Whenever I hear some liberal discussing Hillary's Village, I think of the Orwellian resort depicted in Patrick McGoohan's"The Prisoner.


20 posted on 10/08/2024 10:50:41 AM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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