United Nations' Threat: No More Parental Rights

But I see that the UN cares oh so much about those children starving in the 3rd world and getting blown to bits in places like Iraq and Gaza.

The problem with Canada is virtually NONE of the UN declarations on human rights get implemented. Canada still has no legal framework for dealing with charter issues, and the ONLY recourse individuals have is for costly lawsuits that take at least ten years to work through the court system.

The convention on the rights of the child is from 1990, its not like this is something NEW. In case people didn't know, children have NO righs in Canada. They are almost literally like property. They are 'owned' either by a parent or the state. Isn't this website usually ABOUT individual human rights? All the crap the country is going through and a big deal is that you may not actually be able to beat your kids?? Has Harper's tories taken over this website too?

The Convention on the rights of the child is an effort to give rights to children, something LONG overdue and this website should be championing it. Notice the link to the 'expert' is a guy from PARENTS RIGHTS. In other words, the 'rights' of parents to do whatever the hell they want with their 'property'. As for homeschooling, that's rubbish, because many states have become so lenient with their idea of 'homeschooling' it literally means simply not going to school so that the child can stay home and work on the local farm or get their mormon or religious training drilled into them and denying them a decent education.

So this is about giving children the same rights that you or I take for granted. In New Brunswick, the CBC has covered a story about a school that stopped playing Oh Canada in the morning. Virtually nobody even bothered to ASK a kid what they thought, the view is that they are the state's property and will do as we demand. The UN has been trying to get country's to take individual human rights seriously for over 60 years, its not their fault national government ignores them. Come on.

Marcarc writes
"Isn't this website usually ABOUT individual human rights?"

It's also about free speech.

Marcarc writes
"Has Harper's tories taken over this website too?"

Give me a break. Are you serious?

If you don't agree with the article, that fine, but trying to equate this to some sort of Harper conspiracy is utterly ridiculous.

Submitting an article on my part doesn't mean that I necessarily agree with it and is often done to further advance debate and discourse.

Personally, I learn more from articles I disagree with as oppose to the ones I agree on.

I will add that the United Nations is not my morale compass.

It is well demonstrated that children often need enhanced protection from parents take the polygamous community of Bountiful for example, this treaty may help these children escape their fate were present laws have failed. Political correctness stops us from calling this situation what it clearly is "people farming" through childhood indoctrination. Would our teen age daughters who have not suffered faith based parental indoctrination wish to have sex and children with 50 something uncle Winston Blackmore? Or would girls in other faith traditions volunteer at say age 18 to undergo genital incision to conform to perceived requirements of faith and tradition I think not. We do not own our children in the same way no one owns us we merely assume responsibility of stewardship and care until they take their rightful place in healthy society.

Thanks, but I'll trust my parenting skills and instincts over some strangers who obviously have some twisted agenda.