House, Senate Consider Definitions of Parental Rights

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 08:54 PM PDT

House, Senate consider definitions of parental rights
Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 9/15/2009 8:00:00 AM

A pro-family advocate is asking concerned parents and citizens to make their voices heard in Washington, DC, where Capitol Hill lawmakers are trying to counter a U.N. treaty that threatens parental rights.

In a counter attack to the U.N. Rights of the Child treaty, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House have introduced their own versions of a parental rights amendment. Opponents of the U.N. treaty believe that if it is ratified, American parents would lose their parental rights to a foreign entity. The parental rights amendment being considered in Congress would circumvent that. The House version, H.J. Resolution 42, has 116 sponsors, while the Senate version, S.J. Resolution 16, currently has five.

Mike Farris, founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association and ParentalRights.org, wants concerned parents and individuals to blitz Capitol Hill and urge their lawmakers to support the parental rights amendment.

"I've been writing a brief all day -- it's due in the Supreme Court next week -- on whether or not the U.S. Supreme Court should use the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child to determine how to deal with juvenile criminals from Florida," he explains. "And Americans should be making these decisions under American law, not international law. And the parental rights amendment would stop the Supreme Court from even entertaining the notion that the international law in the U.N. treaty would be applicable."

Farris notes that there is even language in the healthcare bill that is dangerous to parental rights. Now, he contends, is the time to voice concern -- not later.

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