Question posed by the honorable Mr. Dyck: should the state (government) be involved in parenting?
Answer: I would have to say no. It's a violation of a man's right to priviacy given to them by the Constitution. However, that only applies to democracies. Still, I don't feel the state should have any control over what you can or cannot teach your kids, unless it obviously presents a clear and present danger. Let's take the United States of America as an example. If the state where to force it's way into parenting here, then children would grow up to be robots. No one would think on their own, or do anything because they want to. Everyone would spend their time doing what the government wanted done. It's a violation of mans God given right to freedom. Now, don't misqoute me and say I'm against child protection laws, because I am most certainly not against them. Without these, brutality would reign in multiple households, destroying childhoods and ruining decent behavior. What I'm against is government demanded brainwashing. It cuts out all imagination and ingenuity. It demoralizes people. They have no choice as to what they want to be. This would start to affect other aspects of their lives as well. They aren't smart enough to chose what they want to do in life, then they certainly aren't smart enough to pick their clothes out every morning or decide what school they want to go to. State involvement in parenting would lead to down a path toward dictatorship or socialism. Democracy doesn't have time to be wasting on whether not a child should be taught certain things. Thats a parents job, not the states. The state's job is to keep us safe from other forces in the world that would want to cause us harm. Granted that sometimes it is good for the state to step in when a parent fails. But to be honest, most of the kids that are taken from their parents don't turn out all that great. They run away, they get in fights, their insecure and fall behind in school. In conclusion, the state does not have the right to interfer in parenting, unless it is in the childs best interest to do so.
