Posted on 01/08/2005 3:59:24 PM PST by eccentric
Ya gotta wonder: What are parents for? Do teenagers even need parents? According to the way the laws are following the culture, appently not. Well, except to support the child in the lifestyle he/she wants and to take the blame for every mistake he makes and every problem he has.
Not only has the Supreme Court of the United States declared that young girls have the right to get an abortion, if the state has the audacity to require the parents know of what their daughter has planned, the state must also provide for a judge to declare the parents 'unworthy' of being involved. Why? Because the daughter is afraid to tell them? Oh, come now. Then I suppose we shouldn't be so hard on children who flunk out of school, have a car accident, or assault others.
But wait, did I speak too soon? Some school districts include child abuse warnings with the report cards sent home with students. No one is to blame for bad grades --- solve that, they are doing away with grades. And NO! do NOT get involved with your child's school. College educated and unionized teachers know more about what is good for your child than you do.
California forbids telling parents if their child leaves school for ANY drug or sex related medical treatment. Will this extend to other medical issues? How about legal issues? "My liscense was suspended for the hit and run. My attorney is sending a car for me, because I don't want my parents to know about this...."
Not too far fetched. Are parents notified about their child traffic offences? Not usually. Even if the child is taken to the police station, the police will allow the child to be released into the custody of any other adult if the child doesn't want to call his parents. At least most retail managers will call the parents if they catch a child shop-lifting, don't they? Yes, I remember going to get my "joy and happiness" in the managers office. ( They look so saaad you have to control your laughter. Today he is a preacher. )
And beware! Though you are expected to support the child in the lifestyle he/she desires, do NOT think this gives you the right to invade his privacy. Do NOT eavesdrop on his phone conversations, even though YOU pay the phone bill. DON'T snoop around the bedroom you provide for him. His right to privacy includes using your property to promote any criminal activity.
Of course, if your kid makes a bomb that blows up the neighborhood --- well, it's your fault. You should have known about it. hmmm You couldn't do anything about it, but you should have known --- somehow. After all, if your child was afraid to tell you, it is obviously because you are evil, wicked, mean, abusive, cruel, and uncaring.
Let your daughter know that as a teacher, she has the right to opt out of supporting union dues that support liberal causes. From what I understand, she still has to pay dues, but her dues go to other than liberal causes.
Do a google search on "opt out teacher union dues." See which results are appropriate for your daughter. I think it varies from state to state.
This option is one of the items the unions try to keep secret from their teachers. Imagine how many teachers would opt out if they knew they could!
Then he can move out and be on his own and find out about constitutional rights.
Grocery shopping, cooking, buying clothing, driving them all over the place, waiting for them, and taking them back again, paying for lessons, having their friends over, NAGGING, laundry, sewing, NAGGING, ironing, cleaning their rooms (ha! fat chance!), giving them money, NAGGING, picking up after them, throwing birthday parties, NAGGING, helping with homework, listening to their lousy jokes, listening to them get mouthy when they don't like the rules, NAGGING, breaking up sibling quarrels, NAGGING, and, oh yeah, NAGGING.
Good. It is critical for that to go through.
I believe that its still mandatory to pay a collective bargaining fee to the regular union, but dues beyond that can be opted out of so as to not support the NEA's left-wing agenda.
If you care about your children you'll be involved in their lives and try to teach them the tools they'll need to survive when your no longer there to help them. The big problem is the courts take away a parents right but still wants to hold the parents responsible for their children's actions. You can't have it both ways. If you don't want to let the parents take care of their children and to discipline them then you can't hold them responsible for the children's actions. You must hold the courts responisible for the kid's actions because they obviously want the responsibility. I hate it when I hear parents say my kid was a good kid when they're charged with a crime like murder. Obviously these parents had no clue what their kids were all about. To be honest, I don't think things are better today than they were when I was a kid. When I was a kid my parents disciplined me and taught me to respect my elders. They taught me responsibility. You don't see that today in most of today's youngsters.
Remember the 5th Commandment:
Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
There is nothing to honor when parents are not involved with their children's upbringing.
Right on.
Amen!!! But if we see a change in our children we have to do what we can to make sure they are okay!
A very cogent summation of the view of statist social liberals.
That is why we CANNOT let school boards decide that parents are not important.
And they invariably grew up to be liberals.
My now 15 year old begged us to put her in private high school and we did - thank God - she is a 4.2 student and the concern was that she would get lost in a public high school.
It has been worth the sacrifice.
Thank you!!! She does not have it easy for a variety of reasons but makes me proud!!!
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