Great article. Thanks for posting it.
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Not exactly the typical homeschool thread, but it is very enlightening.
It points out many of the things we homeschoolers already know and are trying to prevent in our own families.
Great. Now the commie lib ‘RATS are trying to claim all of the children who survived the assault by the DemocRAT abortionists.
Beautiful, and this guy and his wife must be amazing people to take in these unloved children.
When “all of us’ collectively pays for the mandated prenatal —and the hospital controlled birthing costs. ...When “all of us” buys the baby cloths, and diapers, and baby formula ,and baby food.....when “all of us” picks up the tab for well baby health care visits— and hospital care when the child gets ill. ...Then and only then will I listen to the Progressive Hillary Clinton Crap that the children belong to all of us. When my children did something the local police thought I needed to know about—the cops never went to all of my neighbors— they came to me.When my children did something in public school that the teacher thought I ought know about— the teacher came to me —they did not go to my neighbors.The State of Colorado took two of my grandchildren from my house—the ONLY home they had ever known for four and eight years. A social worker whose panties got in a bunch because I let their mother spend a couple of hours with her girls at the park one day contrary to a “safety plan”drawn up by the outsider. A Judge who NEVER spent five minute in my house but defended the social worker. Never openly allowed any debate over the dog and pony show.That was April 2012.I tried to step up and be the daddy that my daughters boyfriends did NOT want nor know nor try to be.My grandchildren were removed and the Court said my house was unsafe for them. Only GOD can restore what the enemy has taken. I trust God NEVEr the godless State.
Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC and former Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville said that children belong to all of us. No, they don’t. I’ve seen what happens to children when they are owned by the state. State ownership of children leads to neglect. It cripples children, so don’t do it. That is so glaringly obvious that I wonder why Harris-Perry and Reville say otherwise . . .
Children need parents who will pay attention to their particular child and provide what their child needs. Any parent with two or more children knows that each child is different. Children thrive because their parents care about them. There is no substitute. Money isn’t a substitute either.
People who claim otherwise have hidden motives, and they are not interested in the good of the children or of society. They will never call it state ownership of children. That doesn’t change what it is.
Beware of people bearing state ownership of children.
The formulation, “children belong to all of us” is of a piece with, “children belong to ‘society’.”SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
At the tipping point government destroys civil society. We’re past the tipping point.