I previously made 2 posts about the Parental Rights Amendment. Here is the link to the last one:
@hope777/urgent-notice-phone-your-congressman-and-senator-now
The Parental Rights Amendment
"The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is a fundamental right."
In short, this is what the Amendment is about:
SECTION 1
The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is a fundamental right.
SECTION 2
The parental right to direct education includes the right to choose, as an alternative to public education, private, religious, or home schools, and the right to make reasonable choices within public schools for one's child.
SECTION 3
Neither the United States nor any State shall infringe these rights without demonstrating that its governmental interest as applied to the person is of the highest order and not otherwise served.
SECTION 4
The parental rights guaranteed by this article shall not be denied or abridged on account of disability.
SECTION 5
This article shall not be construed to apply to a parental action or decision that would end life.
From Wednesday 27 June - 29 June 2018, Parental rights.org visited D.C. to speak to Congress on your behalf, urging their support for the Parental Rights Amendment. If there is one thing that all Americans should agree on is that children should not be separated from their parents unless that child is in real danger. That was the message that parentalrights.org took to Capitol Hill.
The feedback was positive: They said that the lobbying went well. The result of all the calling was that the offices were welcoming and the staff that they talked too was receptive to the cause of parental rights. This is grassroots work and parentalrights.org need all your support.
As Congress was in recess this week there might be more positive feedback in the weeks to come.
More good news!
While only the Parental Rights Amendment can ultimately secure our fundamental rights in the courts and across the full panorama of our daily life experiences, that is a tremendous undertaking that will yet take time to accomplish. In the meantime, measures like H.R. 6233 can offer immediate hope in specific areas of parental rights law.
So what is H.R.6233 all about?
It is a new bill that is newly introduced in the U.S. House by the representative, Gwen Moore (D-WI). This legislation would "amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)" to ensure that Child Protective Services would no longer be allowed to separate children from their parents on the basis of poverty. This amendment is supported by the bipartisan parental rights coalition of which ParentalRights.org is proudly part off.
Most cases of child welfare investigations are opened over accusations of "neglect" and not of abuse. Most of these cases of neglect are caused by poverty. The parents are loving and fit parents but are just not financially in the position to provide for all the needs of their children. So these are not really cases of neglect but of poverty.
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The majority of child welfare cases as high as 83% will be closed as "unfounded" or "unsubstantiated" but not before the whole family was disrupted and traumatized by the investigations.
This Amendment H.R.6233 aims to correct these tragic cases where the most vulnerable families are abused and their children being taken from them for reasons of poverty.
This Amendment is very short, about 2 pages but will have a significant impact on how Child Protection Services will deal with cases of poverty in the future.
By requiring states to “ensure…that no child is separated from the child’s parent for reason of poverty,” this CAPTA amendment would change the way states handle such cases. While the federal government does not govern such matters, it incentivizes them through such legislation; those states who do not have the required safeguards in place will no longer qualify for the federal monies on which they so heavily rely.
Earlier this year, Utah earned our praise with the passage of a law to clarify that poverty does not constitute neglect. In such cases, Utah state agencies are now required to provide support services to help the family meet their needs without separating children from their parents.
Under this new federal CAPTA provision, should it pass, other states will need to follow Utah’s example if they want to keep receiving federal funds.
It will provide dual benefits, firstly of keeping families together and secondly, funding to help poorer families will save the state money as it will be cheaper than the cost of foster care.
ParentalRights.org is proud to be a part of H.R. 6233, and encourages lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to join us in supporting it.
This new amendment, H.R. 6233 can protect children by empowering parents to keep their families together.
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Please support the important work of ParentalRights.org Go look at their page how you can help.
https://parentalrights.org/get_involved/
Also support this community of Family Protection!
Donations can be made directly to the wallet of @familyprotection.
If you are not familiar with @familyprotection, you can read about them here:
@familyprotection/we-are-family-protection-keeping-families-safe-together
As children are part of a marriage I will also on my program on mspwaves.com, Romance on the Air, talk about the community of family protection, and share some of the posts that are written under the #familyprotection tag.
You can tune in via discord the PAL server, just click on this link https://discord.gg/rwvGAa. If you are not on discord go to mspwaves.com and click on listen. The program is on Sundays at 7 pm UTC.
