Seeking to protect parents from gov’t overreach
by Charlie Butts
With parental rights eroding at the international level, a proposed constitutional amendment in Washington, DC, seeks to legally protect those rights for American parents.
“The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is a fundamental right,” reads House Joint Resolution 50. “The parental right to direct education includes the right to choose public, private, religious, or home schools, and the right to make reasonable choices within public schools for one’s child.”
The Parental Rights Amendment, introduced last week by Congressman Mark Meadows (R-North Carolina), concludes: “No treaty may be adopted nor shall any source of international law be employed to supersede, modify, interpret, or apply to the rights guaranteed by this article.”
Why is such a proposal even necessary? OneNewsNow sought an answer to that question with Will Estrada, federal relations director for the Home School Legal Defense Association and lobbyist for the grassroots group ParentalRights.org. Estrada explains that some state courts are intruding on parental rights after what he describes as the “fragmented” Troxel v. Granville Supreme Court decision in 2000.
Estrada
“We’re also seeing a real aggressive push on the part of this administration to ratify U.N. treaties like the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,” he adds. “This is a nice-sounding treaty, but what it would do is enshrine best interests of the child as the primary consideration in all issues concerning children instead of parental rights.”
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