Health care reforms are turning into health care revolts. Americans are turning up the heat on congressmen in town hall meetings across the US. While watching these political hot August nights, I columnist decided to research the reasons so many are opposed to Obamacare to separate the facts from the fantasy. What I discovered is that there are indeed dirty little secrets buried deep within the 1,000-plus page health care bill. Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government’s coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development.
It’s outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading “home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children.” The programs (provided via grants to states) would educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills.
The bill says that the government agents, “well-trained and competent staff,” would “provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains… modeling, consulting, and coaching on parenting practices,” and “skills to interact with their child to enhance ageappropriate development.”
Are you kidding me?! With whose parental principles and values? Their own? Certain experts? From what field and theory of childhood development? As if there are one-size-fits-all parenting techniques! Do we really believe they would contextualize and personalize every form of parenting in their education, or would they merely universally indoctrinate with their own? Are we to assume the state’s mediators would understand every parent’s social or religious core values on parenting? Or would they teach some secularprogressive and religiously neutered version of parental values and wisdom? And if they were to consult and coach those who expect babies, would they ever decide circumstances to be not beneficial for the children and encourage abortions?
One government rebuttal
is that this program would be “voluntary.” Is that right? Does that
imply that this agency would just sit back passively until some parent
needing parenting skills said, “I don’t think I’ll call my parents,
priest or friends or read a plethora of books, but I’ll go down to the
local government offices”? To the contrary, the bill points to specific
targeted groups and problems, on Page 840: The state “shall identify
and prioritize serving communities that are in high need of such
services, especially communities with a high proportion of lowincome
families.”
Are we further to conclude by those words that
low-income families know less about parenting? Are middle- and
upper-class parents really better parents? Less neglectful of their
children? Less needful of parental help and training? Is this
“prioritized” training not a biased, discriminatory and even
prejudicial stereotype and generalization that has no place in federal
government, law or practice? Bottom line: Is all this what you want or
expect in a universal health care bill being rushed through Congress?
Do you want government agents coming into your home and telling you how
to parent your children? When did government health care turn into
government child care? Government needs less of a role in running our
children’s lives and more of a role in supporting parents’ decisions
for their children. Children belong to their parents, not the
government. And the parents ought to have the right — and government
support — to parent them without the fed’s mandates, education or
intervention in our homes.
Kids are very important to my wife, Gena, and me. That’s why we’ve spent the past 17 years developing our nonprofit KICKSTART (www.kick-start.org)
program in public schools in Texas. It builds up their self-esteem and
teaches them respect and discipline. Of course, whether or not they
participate in the program is their and their parents’ choice.
How
contrary is Obamacare’s home intrusion and indoctrination family
services, in which state agents prioritize houses to enter and enforce
their universal values and principles upon the hearts and minds of
families across America? Government’s real motives and rationale are
quite simple, though rarely, if ever, stated. If one wants to control
the future ebbs and flows of a country, one must have command over
future generations. That is done by seizing parental and educational
power, legislating preferred educational methods and materials, and
limiting private educational options. It is so simple that any
socialist can understand it. As Josef Stalin once stated, “Education is
a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom
it is aimed.”
Before so-called universal health care turns
into universal hell care, write or call your representative today and
protest his voting Obamacare into law. Remind him that what is needed
in Washington is a truly bipartisan group that is allowed an ample
amount of time to work on a compromise health care law that wouldn’t
raise taxes (for anyone), regulate personal medical choices, ration
health care or restrict American citizens.
Copyright 2009 Chuck Norris Distributed by Creators.com
