According to a 2007 report released by UNICEF, children in the Netherlands lead the rest of the world in their “subjective well being” (UN report: Go Dutch!). It’s not surprising to find that the Netherlands is a very “child-centered” society where parents work hard to satisfy their children’s every whim and teachers don’t hold children too accountable for fear of hurting “self-esteem.”
In addition, Netherlands is famous (or more correctly infamous) for it’s “freedoms” and tolerant attitudes towards activities such as drinking, smoking, use of mind altering drugs, and sex. This tolerance extends to children as well. Mandatory sex education begins at age 4 and the age of consent is 12. Almost all Dutch teens are sexually active and most report smoking marijuana.
Even with all its “tolerance” and “freedom,” the UN still chides the Netherlands for not doing “enough” to implement the UN Children’s Rights Convention. Responding to this, the Dutch are ceding even more power to the government, and in addition to their already existing special government minister for young people and the family, are calling for the creation of a special government agent or “ombudsman” who “will fight for the rights and interests of children.”
What about parents in the Netherlands? Their role has been reduced to mere caregiver, responsible to feed, cloth and satisfy the whims and desires of their children; but prohibited from nurturing, guiding and teaching their children. So children in the Netherland enjoy “tolerance” and “freedom,” but at what cost?
We are headed in the same direction. Parental rights are under assault like never before in the United States. Under an Obama administration and Democrat controlled congress, expect a very strong push to ratify the UN Children’s Rights Convention in the United States. Obama’s friend Bill Ayers recently gave a speech at an “educators” conference in Venezuela stating the purpose of “public education” is not education, but state indoctrination of children into the beliefs the state wants them to hold.
WAKE UP AMERICA! We are already passed the crossroads and headed down the path of progressivism/fascism/communism/socialism. Those of us who are prepared to be leaders need to get the masses to stop following the miss-guided and instead help lead them back to the correct path – the divine path recognized by our founders when they wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.
Get involved before it’s too late! Visit ParentalRight.org and at least lend your voice to the cause. Stand up for your country!
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