Posted on 01/02/2015 10:44:31 AM PST by millegan
That children have a right to grow up with their biological mother and father should be uncontroversial, but unfortunately it isn’t.
The International Children’s Rights Institute was recently founded in order to defend this important right. Below are three practices which it thinks often involve gross and depressingly-common violations of children’s rights.
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Those who refuse to adopt to the child's needs will blandly say, "The kids don't mind. Children are so flexible. They can adapt to anything."
While people’s hearts are seemingly in the right place, the idea of children having the right to grow up with their biological parents is arguably oversimplified. What if both biological parents are in prison for example?
What stopped you from posting the whole thing?
If parents CANNOT rather than WILL NOT parent their own children then adoption is acceptable, but not ideal. It is parents who will not that rob their children of their rights, wheter both parents or just one.
Hits on his blog.
Look at his posting history.
Simply posting threads and never responding to comments made on them by other posters.
Could be worse.. could be a “devotional” or a “caucus”.
Then he could troll for hits and nobody would be allowed to point it out.
Hiding in the RF isn’t much better.....
Bloggers and Personal is the forum for this kind of stuff.
The first problem is that most people do not know what Rights are, cannot define them succinctly, and have no clue what implications follow when something is recognized as a right. Pulling a number out of the air, I'd say that fewer than 1 person in 40 can give a decent definition without using the word "right" in the definition.
Children being seen as a commodity which people have a right to is one of the most sad and mad assumption of our age.
I have reservations about a child being raised by one or more biological parents who don't want the child.
Calling it a “right” is just muddying the waters though. It’s not a right, because a right is not dependent on the actions or inactions of others.
blog pimp
These are rights issue that the mainstream media will never touch. I wasn’t aware of them myself until hearing of the film “Anonymous Fathers’ Day.” Humanism has managed to reduce children to sheer property valued for the enjoyment they may give their owners (and if they’re unwanted, then they’re not even human). The belief that children have a right to be with their biological parents unless there’s a compelling reason against it has been replaced with the notion that the adults have all the rights and it “can’t mean much” (or anything) to the children. Amazing how humanists claim this, that and the other thing is a great, life-altering trauma that must be remedied (two same-sex attracted adults will simply die without a romantic relationship, a “transgendered” person will die without gender reassignment), unless it is an injustice that’s too inconvenient to their beliefs for them to address.
As a childless woman myself I can understand the feeling of “missing out” on being a parent, but I wonder how much of that feeling actually comes from the secular humanist perspective that there is no God and this life is all there is, so you have to desperately go after whatever you feel you’re lacking. Powerless children have ended up with no true rights as a consequence.
It has occurred to me that one approach to attacking parent’s rights is to promote child’s rights.
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