Is there any adult in America who hasn't watched a cop show where they read the defendant his rights? Is there anyone in America over the age of 18 that doesn't know he has "A right to remain silent"?
Why on Earth should the cops have to tell every suspect in every crime that they should not talk to them?
Is that REALLY in the Fifth Amendment? Is it written somewhere in the penumbras of the words in between the lines?
Let me ask you this. Do you believe a spouse should be forced to testify against against their spouse? Perhaps you do.
That is not a constitutional protection. It is a statutory protection and the states are free to remove that protection should they so desire. These days, with homosexual marriage being solemnized, I might reconsider whether the protection is a good idea, since marriage apparently has no meaning at all anymore.
FWIW, there is no jurisdiction where a parent cannot be forced to testify against their own child. I would think that a parent/child bond is more deserving of that protection than a husband/wife and particularly more than a husband/husband or wife/wife marital bond.
” Is there anyone in America over the age of 18 that doesn’t know he has “A right to remain silent”?”
If only that were true. English is not spoken by many these days.
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Well, you’ve asked a question that sortof answers itself. Would every adult have heard of Marada rights if they weren’t required to be read? I don’t believe so.
I can see your argument regarding the bond between children and parent to be stronger, but in the eyes of the law, the husband and wife are one.
He takes out loans while they are married and she doesn’t know about it. She becomes responsible for them when he dies.
I recognize your same sex argument and feel that it is simply one more reason why those arrangements should not be recognized on a part with heterosexuals.
I appreciate you mentioned that there is no protection against a parent being required to testify against their child. To me, children are a temporary charge of the parent. From birth to roughly 20, they are in the parents lives daily. From about then on, their lives separate. The children are then on their own for the most part. They are no longer in the mix as a man and a wife would be.
Once married, the assumption is that the man and wife are together until death. That could be 40, 60, 70 years.
You make a reasoned argument on behalf of the parent/child protection, or more accurately the lack of one. I’m not sure I see it as strong as the man wife argument.