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What Happened to Parental Rights?
TND Guest Contributor: Elizabeth Vale | 
Yesterday, I was sent a link to a blog called “I. Am. The. Mom” by a mom, Christy Duffy, who took her daughter to a doctor’s office that was requiring that the daughter have 5 minutes of “alone” time with the nurse. A sign in the waiting room read as follows:
Attention Parents of Adolescent Children Age 12y – 17y.
New Michigan Medical Records access laws have been put in place. This will require a nurse to have a short 5 minute conversation with your child.
We will explain the purpose and process at the time of the visit and answer any questions you may have.
According to her blog, Christy approached the front desk and asked if she could “opt out” because she didn’t think it was appropriate for her adolescent daughter to have “alone” time with a medical professional whom she thought might be giving her daughter advice on birth control, sex, etc. She was told that she could not opt out and then an office manager proceeded to tell Christy that there was a “new policy that would allow a child to access his/her medical records online and the child would be allowed to block a parent from viewing the website. The nurse would also inform my children that the doctor’s office is a safe place for them to receive information about STDs, HIV and birth control. That is what the nurse would be chatting about with my children without any pesky parental oversight”.
Christy told the office manager that no one would be talking to her child alone and that she needed to opt out of this policy before bringing her daughter back to her physical the following month.
Christy then went to her blog to sound the alarm about the fact that our parental rights are being taken away and we don’t have to stand for it.
What I love about this mom, and the blog she wrote, is the fact that she is just a normal mom. She is not what anyone would consider an activist, a right wing extremist, or a nut job; she is a regular mom who needed to take her daughter to the doctor. Although conservative in her ideology, she had never believed the stories about the government trying to control our daily lives. She says on her blog that she listens to “NPR more than talk radio” and had no desire to believe what was being said – until this happened.
And it is happening every day and has been happening for decades.
Our parental rights are being taken away right before our very eyes. However, most of us are unwilling or unable to see what is happening.
According to ParentalRights.org, “Today federal, state and local agencies persist in finding ways to undermine the critically important parent-child relationship. These actions include removing children from their homes without sufficient cause, intimidating and threatening parents with the loss of their children if they don’t cooperate, withholding information from parents about important issues including medical information and relevant administrative information, providing medical treatment or access to prescription medication (such as abortions, vaccinations and contraception) without parental knowledge or consent, interrogating children (in public schools or public places) without parental knowledge or consent and providing information or access to inappropriate information that parents have explicitly forbidden their children from accessing”.
Just look at the story of Justina Pelletier, a child who was loved and taken care of, but because of a differing medical opinion, she was stripped from her parent’s custody and has been forced to live in state care for over a year.
The elitists running our government today understand that in order to control the future, they must control those who will control the future – our children.
What is most alarming about her blog, in my opinion, is not even the fact that this is happening; it is how many of the people reading her blog responded. Readers said she was being paranoid, overreacting, and too controlling. In their mind, there was nothing wrong with a doctor or nurse having a private conversation with an adolescent child to discuss issues such as birth control, sexual activity, and drugs. Really? I want my children to know and understand all of those things, but my husband and I are going to be the ones who discuss those subjects with our children – not some stranger at the doctor’s office.
Many parents have become lazy and complacent. They rely on the government, school systems, and medical professionals to raise their children. They see no problem with these entities replacing parental duties and many parents have no idea what those entities are teaching their children.
It is the parents’ responsibility to raise a child - not the states. However, many government officials think it is the state’s job and continually push new and invasive legislation to strip us, as parents, of our rights
We don’t have to allow this to happen. We can, and MUST, take back control of the job of raising our children and follow the lead of moms like Christy Duffy and say “I. Am. The. Mom (or dad)” and I will raise my children.
To read Christy’s original blog and its follow-up click here and here.
IMAGE COURTESY OF HTTP://ONEDUFFY.BLOGSPOT.COM/.
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Elizabeth Vale is a blogger, speaker, and political activist who lives in South Florida with her husband and four wonderful children. Elizabeth homeschools her children and is active in her local church and community. Before making the all-important decision to stay home with her children, Elizabeth worked in administration at a global corporation. You can find her online at PolitiChicks.tv, GodParentingPolitics.com, on Facebook at FaceBook.com/ElizabethAnnVale, and on Twitter @GodMomPolitics. Reprinted with permission.
Source: http://thenewsdoctors.com/what-happened-to-parental-rights/
