February 25, 2009
Senator Boxer: Let The UN Dictate How Parents In The US Should Raise Their Children
Slippery slope here
Barbara Boxer is urging the U.S. to ratify a United Nations measure meant to expand the rights of children, a move critics are calling a gross assault on parental rights that could rob the U.S. of sovereignty.Wiki:The California Democrat is pushing the Obama administration to review the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, a nearly 20-year-old international agreement that has been foundering on American shores since it was signed by the Clinton administration in 1995 but never ratified. More...
United StatesYes, children should have rights but, having the UN dictate is dangerous.Main article: US ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
The United States government played an active role in the drafting of the Convention and signed it on 16 February 1995, but has not ratified it.[1] Opposition to the Convention is in part due to what are seen as potential conflicts with the constitution and because of opposition by some political and religious conservatives.[23]
The two reasons often given for the US Senate not ratifying the Convention were that the State of Texas allows children to be given the death penalty, which the Convention would not allow, and that it would undermine parents' rights.[24]
The Heritage Foundation sees the conflict as an issue of national control over domestic policy.[25] President Barack Obama has described the failure to ratify the Convention as 'embarrassing' and has promised to review this.[26]
h/t Yid with Lid
