Posted on 07/24/2008 2:32:46 AM PDT by Man50D
The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate two bills that could give the federal government unprecedented control over the way parents raise their children – even providing funds for state workers to come into homes and screen babies for emotional and developmental problems.
The Pre-K Act (HR 3289) and the Education Begins at Home Act (HR 2343) are two bills geared toward military and families who fall below state poverty lines. The measures are said to be a way to prevent child abuse, close the achievement gap in education between poor and minority infants versus middle-class children and evaluate babies younger than 5 for medical conditions.
'Education Begins at Home Act' – HR 2343
HR 2343 is sponsored by Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., and cosponsored by 55 Democrats and 11 Republicans. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that implementing the Education Begins at Home Act would cost taxpayers $190 million for state home visiting, plus "such sums as may be necessary" for in-hospital parent education.
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Congress critter ping!
This is scary. It’s the government trying to control how people can raise their own children. It sounds like they want to make sure the children are indoctrinated with liberalism from the time they leave the womb. The Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves.
Such bureaucrats will never enter my home breathing.
Just the nose of the camel under the tent. Eventually they will have access to every home. Even now the AMA has doctors asking kids all kinds of personal questions about the parents. Is there a gun in the House? Does daddy ever touch you in a way that makes you uncomfortable? Does Mom or Dad smoke pot? etc.
Being a liberal parent (if you didn’t abort your kid at the outset) should be considered a form of child abuse.
The AMA is not the govt.
The country is entering a prerevolutionary situation.
The AMA is not the govt but they have a great deal of input on legislation involving medical practices.
That’s great-on top of deployments, training, and getting ready for the next deployment, now G.I. Joe faces the prospect of Family Advocacy Program/Child Protective Services types becoming even more intrusive.
Ping~
Thanks for that info.
I was simply giving the AMA and what they are doing as an example of what to expect once the government gets access and then control of the kids. Perhaps I should have taken baby steps, pun intended, from one subject to the next but I assumed you could follow along.
Nanny State Ping.
Thanks for the ping!
This is exactly what I warned the morons who thought No Child Left Behind was good about.
I have joked:
Well...Why not have NEA workers snatch infants from their mother's arms in the delivery room? The infants could be raised in newborn government boarding schools. Why? Answer: Because,..hey!...Some parents might abuse their children.
Well....It appears the the joke is no longer a joke and is becoming a reality. :-(
Government sponsored and controlled universal mental health screening, no matter how sweetly wrapped in the fig leaf of parental consent, should never, ever be implemented. It is never, EVER, the proper role of government to set norms for, assess or intervene in the thoughts and emotions of free citizens, much less innocent, vulnerable, and still developing children. It is our thoughts and emotions that make each of us uniquely and individually human, and we use these thoughts and emotions to understand the world and maintain our inalienable right to liberty.
We are all well aware that the parental consent or opt-out language referred to for this bill is just a way to assuage concerns long enough to put this dangerous system into place. Once it is passed with parental consent, that language will either be changed by future legislators, not enforced, or side stepped in some other way. The non-existent enforcement of the federal Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment on invasive surveys is a classic example of this phenomenon. Another is the lack of parental notification of their rights in current Minnesota statute 121A.17 to decline to answer the part of the screening that involves invasive and subjective assessment of family risk factors, or that parents may have their child’s screening administered by private providers, or that no preschool screening is required if it is against the conscientiously held beliefs of the parents.
Scary.
When we have kids, I’m going to be really glad we have guns. I just know it.
I am reminded of the INS swat team that kidnapped Elian Gonzales. A few days later they had a party to celebrate their successful swat action.
Bureaucrats in every department of the government throughout the local, state, and federal level **WILL** fully and completely support and uphold any COMMUNIST take over of the United States.
Thankful we have a military and, I believe that the vast majority of these good men take their oath to uphold and **defend** the Constitution very seriously.
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