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Urgent! STOP the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child!

Please call the number provided and urge your senator to support the resolution (S.R. 519) in opposition to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. (See details and Listings by state at parentalrights.org)

Illinois:
Sen. Roland Burris (D)
D.C. Office: 202-224-2854

Sen. Richard Durbin (D)
D.C. Office: 202-224-2152

The Senate is expected to take up the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Wake Up!

From OneNewsNow.com:

"It takes away the parents' rights to rear their child and gives it to the government," she explains. "The government becomes the caretaker and the guardian, and the parent becomes the babysitter. Another way to define it would be 'the government takeover of our children.'"

If the contract is enforced, the government would have the right to intercede or supersede if officials believe the parents are doing something that is not in the best interest of the child. An example of this comes from Germany, where the government has passed laws that ban parents from homeschooling their children.

"I didn't know that it was this insidious, and at the same time, this overwhelming," Stein laments. "It goes over everything -- what you teach them, what you do with them [and] how they're reared."

The CMA spokesman predicts this will change society from the bottom up. For instance, a 16-year-old girl in Great Britain asked her parents to let her boyfriend move in and share her bedroom. When the parents said no, the teen filed suit and won.

It is not known when the U.S. Senate will try to ratify the treaty, so Dr. Stein says people need to start contacting their senators to voice their views.

(emphasis mine)

"No dictatorship or godless form of government can tolerate any authority superior to its own, so religion and family are authorities that must be eradicated or, at least, discredited and smothered."
Dr. John Howard, founder of the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society. Addressed to the Philadelphia Society, 2/28/2009

More Information:

Home School Legal Defense Association: U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child
HSLDA has opposed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child because it would strip parents of much of their authority to educate, train, and nurture their children according to the dictates of their conscience. For more information on UN treaties or activities see the resources listed on this page.

ParentalRights.org: Understanding the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child
ParentalRights.org: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
This poses a serious threat both to parental rights and to U.S. sovereignty, as the UNCRC dictates not only that the federal government must intrude into the family sphere to an unprecedented degree, but also how the federal government is to monitor and govern the actions of our families. Parental rights would be replaced by "the best interests of the child" as defined, ultimately, by an international committee of 18 people in Switzerland.