Rights

 Jane Fortin (Expert) “the right to care and protection, have little to do with making decisions” it is argued that children are not necessarily making decisions that parents will or do not have control in and say in.  “Acknowledging these may be much more important to young children than acknowledging any claimed right to autonomy” Fortin says. “Schools undoubtedly play an important part in producing confident young people, but most writers agree that the parent’s role is indefinitely more important” This seems an absolute statement when it is known that some parents are lousy parental role models. Special qualities, morals, and scruples come from within families.  (Keeping in mind that a certain portion of progressives have no definition of the family, but are more likely to have a loose presentation of the family, a sort of watered-down version of family. Progressives are suspicious of language about the family, for that definition might undermine the urge to involve the government in every facet of our lives)  It is O’Brien Steinfels who asserts that “whether the efforts to extend rights of citizens to minors will not inhibit and undermine the kind of parental authority and family autonomy necessary to foster the qualities and virtues adult citizens must possess and be able to exercise in our society”  Producing viable citizens used to be the goal of the major institutions of society, now the identification of gender and comfortable feeling pronouns are the goals expected to be reached by children. Yes, there are expectations that every child question their “assigned sex” at birth to work through, at very young ages, their gender identification. This is probably such a tall order because there are so many genders of which to be aware. As long as institutions are guarded and regulated by the government, they are considered appropriate for the growth of young people to be fostered in. According to Guggenheim, “Children do not need rights within the family. What they need are rules that work. Keeping families free from state oversight will do more for children than encouraging litigation and judicial intervention” The larger questions remain, what are the rights that children should have? Rights to protection? From their own families?  There is much more to the issue of children’s rights . . . I encourage everyone to investigate this issue . . . 

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