I'm becoming increasingly disturbed about the looming UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. I've tried to stick my head in the sand and avoid learning too much about it, because I instinctively know that it's the next step in removing our ability to raise our children as God says we should. But in truth I haven't wanted, in this age of Obama, to get exercised about one more thing. Unfortunately, though, they go hand in hand and it's high time that Christians stand up, for what could be the last time, in opposition to this dangerous move by our country.

I'm going to post here a list of The Top 10 Things You Need to Know about the CRC, but I urge you to go to ParentalRights.org and read more about it. The younger your children (or grandchildren) are at this moment, the more serious the impact will be on their lives and we can't afford to ignore it any longer.

Ten things you need to know about the substance of the CRC.

1. Parents would no longer be able to administer reasonable spankings to their children.
2. A murderer aged 17 years, 11 months and 29 days at the time of his crime could no longer be sentenced to life in prison.
3. Children would have the ability to choose their own religion while parents would only have the authority to give their children advice about religion.
4. The best interest of the child principle would give the government the ability to override every decision made by every parent if a government worker disagreed with the parent’s decision.
5. A child’s “right to be heard” would allow him (or her) to seek governmental review of every parental decision with which the child disagreed.
6. According to existing interpretation, it would be illegal for a nation to spend more on national defense than it does on children’s welfare.
7. Children would acquire a legally enforceable right to leisure.
8. Christian schools that refuse to teach "alternative worldviews" and teach that Christianity is the only true religion "fly in the face of article 29" of the treaty.
9. Allowing parents to opt their children out of sex education has been held to be out of compliance with the CRC.
10. Children would have the right to reproductive health information and services, including abortions, without parental knowledge or consent.

Don't allow yourself to be fooled: no matter how many "good" things the UN CRC purports to do, nothing removes the threat to you and that little one sitting beside you right now. If you read nothing else today on the ParentalRights website, please make time to read this:

The Threat: Attacks on Parental Rights

Labels: Children, Political Action, Social Observation