tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024315902053903352024-02-19T08:25:14.656-08:00AFR NewsLeonard Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04820936865691005703noreply@blogger.comBlogger4554125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302431590205390335.post-74050786312708612842014-10-02T13:30:00.000-07:002014-10-02T13:30:25.624-07:00E-News: National Survey of Child Welfare Spending<div>
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For the first time in nearly 20 years, total spending on child welfare in the U.S. has declined. Our new report summarizes <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001oGx_w-NdjIIcLv7HLEmJ4zJNlpy_KdHLfClynPAOEWj_PGGnh5zRkNA7iEkqQgHzs3hq324e3C_xTB-wm65pvbaSg3fpHNw4I_ufUc0zXMS8DFy6JFSdzLGWZLMTiJWfOxLzx-sO-Hwuy1ZF1opDXYXMH5WecIfspYTZnGu5fshBU8BBcwDEos85GoXCZdWjF0Cl4wJoMP8_0S7n7u1sQ0KhGP8-o4LQL6q6rhKOInw9xQXmigBc3sy3HPDcJxPftiCEbRJDScoH4pGXIWjev2jdiGsFpWAY8wlpBmFBWVTxyQCUKNObXjDJLxtRSqWgPsc7bsMDcvcnNim-ezihR3nQPkhl4_V6a5SsWWNc6CllGUl4bF5v9Y54NNZRTlh5ihZrz3OhYPWwbPKj-5xCHZQ-Qh-hHqcVBMhtfQ_rAe6IHhYrR8jIduyWyw5SDAvxFZOZ22HsvEF2Zm-0FisFBA==&c=&ch=" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">key findings</span></a> from a national survey of states' child welfare expenditures. Child welfare agencies use federal, state, and local funds to provide services to prevent abuse and neglect, preserve families, protect children, and place children outside of their homes when necessary. <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001oGx_w-NdjIIcLv7HLEmJ4zJNlpy_KdHLfClynPAOEWj_PGGnh5zRkNA7iEkqQgHzY7mXgNtOyVwWikDGVyYNh4nthp-1_8WLWTRV-xU_BhlCeWXhCCpy2dV5fNzlUyotJ3cLOsBi_48g2TG4rcAADGhl49tXfV7yK4GZkz13XZpYZqQtlDUMRlwqPY3GVD3BM6Ov7V-If9PT0i3kdZbQSrmcfBJhhxWyvcrz12NugXYXsn1Zl7HD53DeHAyT1FwavuVoaD5ROfR1PftOZ3mBcUwOeims21cL3s_O-pK6gfZhpXvrPcN7yBPNN8NHmfwgt2nXzW8DwMA-4Qjn4YCs_6bjz6nM0Peln7l5Js7xOq4=&c=&ch=" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Track the money</span></a> that funds this important work.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Health during adolescence can impact later educational, social, and economic success. This brief describes the family, neighborhood, and personal characteristics of teens who are in poor health, compared with those of healthier teens. Teens in fair or poor health are more likely to be disengaged from school, and more likely to have parents who are also in fair or poor health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sept. 30, 2014</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">With your help, we could see the Parental Rights Amendment (PRA) adopted before the next presidential election.<br />
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No, this isn’t a guarantee. It is too soon for that. There are still
too many variables, too many pieces that need to fall into place.<br />
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<strong>But it is a very real possibility.</strong><br />
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The first thing that has to happen, though, is the election this
November of enough congressmen and senators who will support the
parental rights effort.<br />
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The new House and Senate will convene in January, 2015. With enough
support for the PRA going in, we can make a concerted effort to secure
its passage in both houses within the year. Then, when state
legislatures convene in 2016, its ratification can be at the top of
their to-do list. (Those with year-round legislatures won’t even have to
wait that long!)<br />
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Imagine it. <strong>With your help, we can see the PRA adopted before we even vote on President Obama’s successor in 2016!</strong><br />
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But it all starts with this November’s elections. And that’s where our pledge comes in.<br />
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ParentalRights.org does not endorse a particular party or candidate.
However, we are working to post for your information a list of
candidates who support the PRA, based on the pledges we have received or
an incumbent’s cosponsorship of the PRA in their chamber of Congress.
Though the list is still incomplete, we are growing it at <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=76864e1d722eb0e840dd46aacc00ef537m1027766768&%3C%3CsecureId%3E%3E&linkId=3121&targetUrl=http://4pra.us/pledge14" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">4pra.us/pledge14</a>.<br />
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<strong>Check the list to see who has declared their support in your House and Senate races.</strong> Check back as Election Day approaches and as hopefully more pledges are received.<br />
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If pledges haven’t been sent to the candidates in your district yet and you would like to help, you can see the step-by-step <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=76864e1d722eb0e840dd46aacc00ef537m1027766768&%3C%3CsecureId%3E%3E&linkId=3124&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?SEC=%7B9C55EE3A-1457-4110-8E19-1BF5332E0A93%7D" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">instructions here</a>. (We are sending those pledges out slowly, but volunteers really speed up the process!)<br />
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<strong>Wouldn’t it be nice to know that no matter who is sworn in as
president in 2017, they will swear “to preserve, protect, and defend
[a] Constitution” that includes your parental rights?</strong><br />
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With your help through the coming months, there is a good chance that we can make that dream a reality.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
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Michael Ramey<br />
Director of Communications & Research<br />
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P.S. – If you can support the dream with just a <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=76864e1d722eb0e840dd46aacc00ef537m1027766768&%3C%3CsecureId%3E%3E&linkId=3133&targetUrl=http://parentalrights.org/member" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">$5 monthly donation</a> (or $50 annual) this month you will receive access to our October Elite Membership packet on <strong>“Teaching Active and Adventurous Children,”</strong> featuring <em>Institute for Excellence in Writing’s</em> Andrew Pudewa. Andrew’s insights can help you connect with your adventurous child, however he or she is schooled.</span><br />
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Leonard Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04820936865691005703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302431590205390335.post-16154288981374315472014-09-24T16:40:00.000-07:002014-09-24T16:40:28.784-07:00Isaiah Rider Home, but Not Home Free<div class="moz-forward-container">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sept. 23, 2014</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Teen Isaiah Rider is back in Kansas City with family members after months in Chicago foster care. But the drama is not over.<br />
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Removed from his mother’s custody for “medical neglect,” Isaiah remains a ward of the state of Illinois.<br />
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<strong>“He was suffering,”</strong> Michelle recently told the <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32fb47ae58c479fa8a086f4e4aa0b7823m281745632f&linkId=3093&targetUrl=http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article2184051.html#/tabPane=tabs-aed136ef-1" moz-do-not-send="true" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Kansas City Star</a>. <strong>“They could not control his pain, so we asked for a transfer to another hospital.</strong> We were asking for them to get appropriate help, and they were failing to do that.”<br />
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Instead, Lurie’s Children’s Hospital in Chicago called in Illinois’
child protection services, who removed Isaiah from his mother’s custody
and placed him in foster care.<br />
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Isaiah has neurofibromitosis, a genetic condition that causes often
painful tumors to grow on the nerves throughout his body. He has been
dealing with medical problems related to his condition since he was 6.<br />
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After his most recent surgery, he had continual and on-going pain,
which led to Michelle’s fateful decision. And that is when Lurie’s
called on the state of Illinois to intervene.<br />
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Illinois took custody of Isaiah and placed him in foster care until
last week, when he was returned to Kansas City, into the custody of his
grandparents.<br />
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“I am very thankful that he’s home,” his grandmother Judy told the Kansas City Star. “However, <strong>the restrictions that they’ve been able to provide through Cook County Court limit (my daughter’s) visitation.</strong>” She is not allowed to see her son unless one of her own parents is present.<br />
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Michelle is on trial in Chicago to try to regain custody of her son.
The case started on Friday (Sept. 19), and could stretch on for months.
“It’s very frustrating,” Michelle said of the situation. <strong>“He’s 17 years old. This needs to stop.”</strong><br />
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Almost a year and a half ago, we sent you a story of “<a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32fb47ae58c479fa8a086f4e4aa0b7823m281745632f&linkId=3091&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7BED74F929-1D65-44BA-ADF5-7BF93EA14C87%7D" moz-do-not-send="true" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Baby Sammy Home, but Not Home Free</a>,” of a similar situation in California. And the <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32fb47ae58c479fa8a086f4e4aa0b7823m281745632f&linkId=3095&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B365FBB6B-83BE-4E8C-A700-844597516D0E%7D" moz-do-not-send="true" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Justina Pelletier</a> case earlier this year followed a very similar pattern.<br />
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Under the Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act in Illinois (<a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32fb47ae58c479fa8a086f4e4aa0b7823m281745632f&linkId=3090&targetUrl=http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=075000360HArt.+2&ActID=2497&ChapterID=59&SeqStart=1400000&SeqEnd=2500000" moz-do-not-send="true" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">75- ILCS 36</a>),
it would appear that the Illinois courts should not have jurisdiction
in the Rider case. Illinois is not Isaiah’s home, and he has no
“significant connection with th[e] State other than mere physical
presence.” The act has been adopted by the District of Columbia and
every State except Massachusetts, and according to this reading of it, a
Missouri court would rightly exercise jurisdiction over the case of
Isaiah’s custody.<br />
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The law, however, is very complex. Illinois is already exercising
jurisdiction, and it is not the purpose of this article to refute the
court’s decision to do so.<br />
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But even if the UCCJEA were applied, there is no guarantee Michelle would win. <strong>Once
a judge decides to ignore the fundamental right of parents to make
medical decisions for their child, there is no telling what standard the
judge will be looking for before he will entrust that parent with her
own child again.</strong><br />
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This is one great reason the Parental Rights Amendment looks to
preserve those rights in the first place. Fit and loving parents should
not have to defend their decisions to a judge when they have not been
abusive or negligent. )<br />
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And make no mistake.<strong> The accusation of “neglect” against Michelle arose because doctors disagreed with her decision</strong>, not because of any action she had taken before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">1. If you’re on Facebook, “like” our page at <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32fb47ae58c479fa8a086f4e4aa0b7823m281745632f&linkId=3073&targetUrl=http://Facebook.com/parentalrights.org" moz-do-not-send="true" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Facebook.com/parentalrights.org</a> to <strong>follow Isaiah’s and other stories through our Facebook page</strong>.<br />
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Your membership enables us to promote state statutes to fix
over-reaches like the one in the Rider case, while also funding efforts
to pass the Parental Rights Amendment – the ultimate solution to this
problem.<br />
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In addition, we will send you not only the September Elite Membership packet on meal planning, but also the <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32fb47ae58c479fa8a086f4e4aa0b7823m281745632f&linkId=3094&targetUrl=http://parentalrights.org/member" moz-do-not-send="true" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">special introductory packet</a> on <em>Parental Rights in the Medical Setting</em>. <strong>Perhaps its content can help you keep Isaiah’s nightmare from ever playing out in your family.</strong><br />
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(And if you’ve signed up for our <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32fb47ae58c479fa8a086f4e4aa0b7823m281745632f&linkId=3074&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?SEC=%7BEED5B668-3A33-4A10-9CE2-69E798599B07%7D" moz-do-not-send="true" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Membership Enlistment Contest</a>, remember that it concludes next week on September 30.)<br />
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3. <strong>Help us find where your candidates stand on parental rights</strong>
as we head toward Election Day. With enough help, this can be a quick
and easy task that allows us to notify thousands of voters. See details
in last week’s newsletter, <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32fb47ae58c479fa8a086f4e4aa0b7823m281745632f&linkId=3087&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?SEC=%7B9C55EE3A-1457-4110-8E19-1BF5332E0A93%7D" moz-do-not-send="true" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">available here</a>.<br />
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<em>With your help, we can make situations like Isaiah and Michelle Rider’s a thing of the past.</em> But it will take all of us to preserve the “enduring American tradition” of parental rights.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
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Michael Ramey<br />
Director of Communications & Research<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sept. 9, 2014</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Farris: New Foundation To Support Parental Rights</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Champion of Parental Rights,</span><br />
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I write to share with you an exciting opportunity to advance the
cause of parental rights in a new and important way. And I need your
help to make it happen.<br />
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Our goal remains focused. We want to place permanent protections for
parental rights into the Constitution of the United States. We have also
advanced selective interim goals that are vitally important, including
the defeat of United Nations treaties that would harm parental
liberties.<br />
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Our efforts thus far have been focused on getting people who support
parental rights to call their elected officials to enact legislation.<br />
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It has become apparent that<strong> we need to devote additional efforts to informing the American public about our issue.</strong> If more parents know the true <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=d8389cbcd73201b7b9d8944cc487b02ddm3992106d83&linkId=2888&targetUrl=http://4pra.us/sopra14" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">state of parental rights</a> in our law and judicial practice, then more parents will <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=d8389cbcd73201b7b9d8944cc487b02ddm3992106d83&linkId=2885&targetUrl=http://parentalrights.org/petition" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">join in our efforts</a> to protect parental liberty.<br />
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Our efforts will be successful only when enough parents wake up, stand up, and speak up.<br />
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<strong>Accordingly, we have decided to launch a project to
dramatically expand both our research and public communications on
parental rights.</strong><br />
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ParentalRights.org is a 501(c)(4) organization. That means that the
organization itself is tax exempt, but because we do a lot of lobbying,
we cannot grant tax deductions to our donors.<br />
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Education, research, and litigation, however, can legitimately be funded by organizations that are both non-profit <em>and</em> tax deductible.<br />
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<strong>So we are launching a sister organization: <em>Parental Rights Foundation</em>.</strong>
This foundation will be a 501(c)(3) organization, which means that
donations made to the Foundation are tax deductible. It will not engage
in lobbying but only in research, education, and other activities
appropriate for such organizations.<br />
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The Parental Rights Foundation will allow us to: </span><br />
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<li>Produce scholarly “White Papers” on various aspects of parental rights</li>
<li>File “friend of the court” briefs to provide legal insight to judges in important cases such as that of the <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=d8389cbcd73201b7b9d8944cc487b02ddm3992106d83&linkId=2873&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B365FBB6B-83BE-4E8C-A700-844597516D0E%7D" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Pelletiers</a> in Massachusetts</li>
<li>Conduct public campaigns through seminars, meetings, social
media, and traditional press to ensure that a far greater percentage of
parents and policymakers understand the threats that are rising daily in
our nation</li>
<li>Produce new articles, videos, and blogs that can be shared
through social media to help our grassroots members participate in this
new campaign of public awareness and education</li>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">While we have
been educating the public and policymakers to some degree already, our
capacity to do so is limited by lack of resources.<br />
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Both organizations will need funding, because ParentalRights.org will
continue our growing legislative and lobbying efforts. But launching
the Foundation will allow a substantial part of our efforts to come
through <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=d8389cbcd73201b7b9d8944cc487b02ddm3992106d83&linkId=2889&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=7&amp;" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">gifts</a> that are tax deductible.<br />
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Whenever I speak to live audiences about parental rights, the
response is strong and positive. When people learn the truth, they want
to help.<br />
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It is impossible for me to physically stand before enough audiences
to educate all the people we need. We must expand our educational
efforts in a big way.<br />
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<strong>My hope is that the Parental Rights Foundation will become the leading authority for parental rights policy in America,</strong> the go-to place for everyone from parents to educators to lawmakers.<br />
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Educating the public will lead to more widespread support. And the
support of the American public is essential for a project of this
magnitude.<br />
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Will you help me with this effort? For the first time, we can offer you a tax deduction for any <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=d8389cbcd73201b7b9d8944cc487b02ddm3992106d83&linkId=2874&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=7&amp;" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">gift</a> that you are able to make to help us launch the Parental Rights Foundation.<br />
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In order to hit our launch goals – to crank up our research, get our
first articles written, and launch a new website to feature the results –
I need to raise $100,000 for the Foundation! If you can, send <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=d8389cbcd73201b7b9d8944cc487b02ddm3992106d83&linkId=2887&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=7&amp;" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">your best gift</a> to help get this effort off the ground.<br />
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When people learn the truth about governmental attacks on families, they will respond. People will get it: <strong>If the government attacks one good family, they can attack my family as well.</strong><br />
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If we want to protect our freedom, we need more informed allies. The
Parental Rights Foundation is the tool that can help us achieve that
end.<br />
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Thank you!<br />
<br />
Sincerely,</span><br />
<img alt="" height="69" shrinktofit="true" src="https://secure.parentalrights.org/neon/resource/parentalrights/images/Farris-signature.gif" style="height: 69px; width: 214px;" width="214" />
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Michael Farris<br />
President<br />
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P.S. We have a groundbreaking opportunity. The <em>Parental Rights Foundation</em> will be the <u>only</u>
national organization in the United States dedicated to promoting
parental rights policies based on time-tested principles of freedom. <strong>It could change the face of parental rights in America.</strong> Please, if there’s any way you can, help us launch the Foundation with your most generous <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=d8389cbcd73201b7b9d8944cc487b02ddm3992106d83&linkId=2890&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=7&amp;" style="color: darkred; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">tax deductible gift</a> toward our $100,000 goal. </span><br />
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Leonard Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04820936865691005703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302431590205390335.post-46808410501917564392014-09-04T14:29:00.000-07:002014-09-04T14:29:14.531-07:00Let Us Share Your Story with Congress<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sept. 4, 2014</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Let Us Share Your Story with Congress</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">ParentalRights.org
President Michael Farris will be providing testimony on the Parental
Rights Amendment before the Constitution Subcommittee of the House
Judiciary Committee next Tuesday, September 9, and <em>he would like to include your story.</em><br />
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Have you ever had a doctor or other medical professional (dentist,
orthodontist, ophthalmologist, etc.) interfere with your parental
rights? Perhaps they prevented you from accompanying your minor child
into the treatment room for care. Perhaps they overrode your decisions
regarding what is best for your child. Perhaps they called in the state
because you sought a second opinion.<br />
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If you have had an experience of this sort, however basic or egregious, <strong>please send a brief summary to <a href="mailto:stories@parentalrights.org" style="color: darkred;">stories@parentalrights.org</a></strong>
as soon as possible. You don’t have to write a long letter or include a
ton of details. Just let us know what happened so that we can show
Congress just how quickly this problem is growing, and just how far it
has spread.<br />
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If you would also like to <strong>help fund our on-going efforts</strong>, you can secure a <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=cdc52bfe871e62667c33335aa8f3fbb5cm2042885cdc&linkId=2830&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/join.jsp" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">$5-monthly</a> membership (or just <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=cdc52bfe871e62667c33335aa8f3fbb5cm2042885cdc&linkId=2831&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/join.jsp" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">$50 per year</a> – a 16% savings) and receive two <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=cdc52bfe871e62667c33335aa8f3fbb5cm2042885cdc&linkId=2837&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B1BC4FCCD-7A39-4990-BE36-8FFD88003D5F%7D" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Elite Member Benefits</a> packages – the current package on Menu Planning, and (fittingly enough) our package on <em>Parental Rights in the Medical Setting.</em> (If you already have a membership or don’t want one, you can make a general donation <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=cdc52bfe871e62667c33335aa8f3fbb5cm2042885cdc&linkId=2839&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=5&amp;" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br />
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Thank you for your help as <strong>we prepare to take the issue of your parental rights to the very halls of Congress</strong> on September 9!<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
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Michael Ramey<br />
Director of Communications & Research<br />
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Leonard Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04820936865691005703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302431590205390335.post-19485721474504495502014-09-02T10:08:00.000-07:002014-09-02T10:08:12.952-07:00Great News! PRA Goes to Subcommittee September 9<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sept. 2, 2014</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Great News! PRA Goes to Subcommittee September 9</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">The Constitution
Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on
House Joint Resolution (HJRes.) 50, the Parental Rights Amendment (PRA),
on Tuesday, September 9. Given that Congress is currently scheduled to
be in session for only twelve work days before recessing again for the
November elections, <strong>this hearing on only the second day communicates the importance of the resolution.</strong>
The measure enjoys the support of 79 cosponsors, including Rep. Trent
Franks, the chairman of the subcommittee. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) is
the measure’s lead sponsor.<br />
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“I’m pleased that my colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee will
consider the Parental Rights Amendment. This is an incredibly important
milestone. <strong>The Parental Rights Amendment will ensure that
child-rearing decisions are not made by faceless bureaucrats but by
parents who love their children and know them best</strong>,” Congressman Meadows said.<br />
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This will mark the second consecutive session of Congress in which
the PRA has been taken up by the subcommittee. The same subcommittee
held a hearing on HJRes. 107 in July of 2012 during the 112th Congress.<br />
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“It is encouraging to know that in the midst of so many other
important matters that Congress is dealing with, they have not lost
sight of the importance of families,” says ParentalRights.org president
Michael Farris. “Parental rights is ‘perhaps the oldest of the
fundamental liberty interests recognized by [the Supreme] Court,’ but <strong>recent erosion of this liberty demands that we act to preserve it for our posterity</strong>.”<br />
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Farris, who boasts 30-plus years of experience as a constitutional
lawyer and serves as chancellor of Patrick Henry College in Virginia,
will be one of the expert witnesses to speak at the hearing on behalf of
the Amendment. ParentalRights.org staff also plan to be in attendance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Action Items</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>1. Call on your congressman to cosponsor the Parental Rights Amendment.</strong> The 79 cosponsors are listed at <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=fdf84d675df168131569ed01504e7ee3fm4171575fdf&linkId=2811&targetUrl=http://4pra.us/House" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">4pra.us/House</a>.
If your congressman is not on the list, please contact his or her local
office – or reach their D.C. office through the Capitol switchboard at
202-224-3121 – and ask that he or she contact Martha Van Lieshout in
Mark Meadows’ office to sign on as a cosponsor.<br />
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Feel free to use your own words, of course, but a sample message follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><em>I
support the Parental Rights Amendment, which is House Joint Resolution
50. I am glad to see that HJRes. 50 is being taken up by the
Constitution subcommittee next week, and that it already has 79
cosponsors. I would like to encourage my congressman to sign on as a
cosponsor of the measure as well. The lead sponsor is Mark Meadows of
North Carolina, and the contact person in his office is Martha Van
Lieshout. I urge my congressman to take this stand to protect the right
of loving parents to make decisions for their children without undue
government interference.</em></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>2. Support our efforts with a membership to ParentalRights.org.</strong> If you are not already a member, why not join today? Your <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=fdf84d675df168131569ed01504e7ee3fm4171575fdf&linkId=2803&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/join.jsp" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">$5 monthly donation</a> – or discounted <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=fdf84d675df168131569ed01504e7ee3fm4171575fdf&linkId=2813&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/join.jsp" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">$50 annual donation</a> – will not only entitle you to all the great information in our monthly <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=fdf84d675df168131569ed01504e7ee3fm4171575fdf&linkId=2810&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B1BC4FCCD-7A39-4990-BE36-8FFD88003D5F%7D" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Elite Member Benefits</a> packages, but will also fuel our efforts to protect parental rights.<br />
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Only with the help of donors just like you have we been able to
introduce the Parental Rights Amendment in both houses of Congress and
get it to this subcommittee hearing. Only with your generosity have we
been able to stand against the push to ratify the <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=fdf84d675df168131569ed01504e7ee3fm4171575fdf&linkId=2797&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?SEC=%7B5518816F-CE05-4294-8F90-C41AD67C94D2" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Convention on the Rights of the Child</a>, to warn you about dangers like the <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=fdf84d675df168131569ed01504e7ee3fm4171575fdf&linkId=2812&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?SEC=%7B26385D06-166F-43EE-B2F8-A170E6926CED%7D" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">national student database</a> associated with Common Core, and to inform you of grievous parental rights cases like that of <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=fdf84d675df168131569ed01504e7ee3fm4171575fdf&linkId=2802&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B365FBB6B-83BE-4E8C-A700-844597516D0E%7D" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Justina Pelletier</a>.<br />
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With your support, <strong>we will continue this vital cause until your parental rights are permanently secured in the Constitution.</strong><br />
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September 9 will be an exciting day in the struggle for parental
rights, and we are grateful for the chance to share this victory with
you!<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
<br />
Michael Ramey<br />
Director of Communications & Research<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aug. 26, 2014</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Members Fuel Fight to Save Parental Rights</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">They’re after
our kids – the judges, the bureaucrats, the internationalists, the big
government elites – and they seem to think they can make better
decisions for our children than we can. And they know – they <em>know</em> – that if they can shape the hearts and minds of this next generation, there will soon be no one left to resist them at all.<br />
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<strong>The only thing stopping them is you. </strong>Your
constitutional right to direct the upbringing, education, and care of
your children is all that stands between your child and the bureaucrats’
dreams-come-true. But your rights, as you know, are eroding.<br />
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<strong>That is why your membership in ParentalRights.org is so important.</strong> As always, your <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32e0ccf3196dae578ba69029b91840283m558716532e&linkId=2709&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=5&amp;" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">donation</a>
funds the only national level organization standing up to protect your
parental rights to guard your child’s heart and mind for a free and
secure future.<br />
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But now <strong>your membership is beneficial to you in the present, as well.</strong> That’s because every month we offer <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32e0ccf3196dae578ba69029b91840283m558716532e&linkId=2714&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B1BC4FCCD-7A39-4990-BE36-8FFD88003D5F%7D" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Elite Member Benefits</a>
in the form of print outs, e-books, or informative interviews to help
you be the best parent you can be – and exercise your rights to the full
– right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt;"><em>"Love the ID kits!" -- Joy D., NY</em></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">For only <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32e0ccf3196dae578ba69029b91840283m558716532e&linkId=2716&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=5&amp;" style="color: darkred; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">$5 a month</a>, or a <strong>discounted</strong> <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32e0ccf3196dae578ba69029b91840283m558716532e&linkId=2708&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=5&amp;" style="color: darkred; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">$50 one-time annual fee</a>, you will receive a code once a month to your free Elite Member Benefits download. This month’s topic is <em>Internet Safety</em>, featuring a video interview with <em>Enough Is Enough</em>’s Donna Rice Hughes, as well as some handouts and coupons to help you protect your children online.<br />
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Coming in September – only a week away – is a package on <em>Menu Planning</em>
to help busy parents like you make the most of your budget as you
provide for your children. Food may not be a “cool” or “trending”
parenting topic, but it’s vitally important – a part of every day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt;"><em>"Thanks so much for your help!" - Donna A., NC </em></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">What’s more, we have made our July packet on <em>Parental Rights in the Medical Setting</em> a permanent part of every membership as well. <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32e0ccf3196dae578ba69029b91840283m558716532e&linkId=2719&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=5&amp;" style="color: darkred; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Join today</a> <strong>and you will have access to all three packages in less than a week!</strong> (September package becomes available Monday, September 1.)<br />
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By joining now, you will bring these benefits directly to your inbox on a monthly basis. Even more important, <strong>you
will fund the vital but costly work of ParentalRights.org as we strive
to protect your rights against intrusive U.N. treaties, activist judges,
and encroaching legislation and regulations.</strong> Only with your help can we persevere until the Parental Rights Amendment is adopted and your rights are secured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt;"><em>"We really appreciate it. We are a large family." Jennifer P., CA</em></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">So join today, then pass the message along.<br />
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You can also <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32e0ccf3196dae578ba69029b91840283m558716532e&linkId=2711&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?SEC=%7BEED5B668-3A33-4A10-9CE2-69E798599B07%7D" style="color: darkred; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">join our membership contest</a> <strong>and earn rewards</strong>
for enlisting your friends to join. So what are you waiting for? Only
one more month in the contest, and only one more week to get your August
Elite Membership packet for a safer internet experience.<br />
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Thank you for joining with us financially as we strive to protect parental rights now and for generations to come.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
<br />
Michael Ramey<br />
Director of Communications & Research<br />
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P.S. – This is also the last week of August recess, and the <strong>last week to call or visit your Senators</strong> while they’re in your state and urge them to oppose the CRPD. <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=32e0ccf3196dae578ba69029b91840283m558716532e&linkId=2724&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?SEC=%7B6F2B01A3-07DD-4CDE-93B8-6DADC5926833%7D" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Click here</a> for details. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 8pt;">Florida Notice: A
COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MAY BE
OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL-FREE
(800-435-7352) WITHIN THE STATE. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY
ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE.<br />
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Maryland Notice: A copy of ParentalRights.Org’s financial statement
is available by request to ParentalRights.Org at the address below.<br />
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Virginia Notice: A financial statement is available from the State
Office of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Agriculture and Consumer
Services upon request.<br />
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Washington Notice: The registration statement required by the
Charitable Solicitation Act is on file with the Washington Secretary of
State.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aug. 21, 2014</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Former
Republican Senator Bob Dole has been pushing his former colleagues in
the Senate to support the U.N.’s Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities (CRPD). He knows the treaty is about 2 votes short,
and he is applying all the pressure he can to get those 2 votes.<br />
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It is imperative now more than ever that we continue to hold the line so that those last 2 votes do not cave. <strong>Your calls, emails, and visits may be the only thing giving them the backbone to stand up to the pressure and vote “No”</strong> to this treaty that would move domestic law to an international context and put your parental rights at risk.<br />
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Please take a moment today to <strong>call or email your Senators</strong> and urge them to oppose this treaty. If you already called, call them again. Or even better – there may still be time to <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=5f8c8fb61d8108e384e00866847742f45m64668455f8&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2617&targetUrl=http://4pra.us/visit" style="color: darkred; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">schedule a visit</a> while they are in your state until the end of the month.<br />
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Your message can be as simple as the following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><em>I am calling to urge my senator to vote “No” on ratification of the CRPD. <strong>We do not need to ratify any treaty that purports to direct our domestic policy.</strong>
Only Americans should make law for Americans. Even if the content of
this treaty were perfect – and I have concerns that it is deeply flawed –
an international treaty is no way to pass American domestic law.
Treaties should deal with how nations treat other nations, not how my
government governs me or my family. Thank you.</em></span></blockquote>
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Thank you for taking time out of your day to take a vital stand for parental rights and American freedom.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
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Michael Ramey<br />
Director of Communications & Research<br />
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<span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>29</strong></span>-year-old attorney, Charles Finney saw so many Scripture references in<em> Blackstone's Law Commentaries</em> that he bought a Bible.<br />
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On October 10, 1821, he decided to head into the woods near his home, saying:<br />
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The next morning, at his law office, a church deacon suing a fellow-church member asked Finney about his case. Finney replied:<br />
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Finney began presenting the Gospel with a convincing lawyer's argument. <br />
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He would pray using common, colloquial language rather than in formal, traditional King's English.<br />
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Charles Finney began the tradition of an 'altar call' in his 1830 revival in Rochester, New York:<br />
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had found, that with the higher classes especially, the greatest
obstacle to be overcome was their fear of being known as anxious
inquirers. They were too proud...<br />
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Something was needed, to make the impression on them that they were expected at once to give up their hearts;<br />
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something that would call them to act, and act as publicly before the world, as they had in their sins;<br />
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something that would commit them publicly to the service of Christ...<br />
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had called them simply to stand up in the public congregations...to
bring them out from among the mass of the ungodly, to a public
renunciation of their sinful ways, and a public committal of themselves
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Finney's revival preaching paved the way for evangelists Dwight L. Moody, Billy Sunday and Billy Graham.<br />
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Charles Finney's 1835 <em>Revival Lectures</em> inspired George Williams to found the YMCA-Young Men's Christian Association-in 1844.<br />
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Finney inspired William and Catherine Booth to found what would be called The Salvation Army in 1865.<br />
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Charles
Finney formed the Benevolent Empire, a network of volunteer
organizations to aid poor and aged with healthcare and social needs,
which in 1834 had a budget rivaling the Federal Government.<br />
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Finney organized the Broadway Tabernacle in New York in 1831.<br />
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While
Charles Finney was president of Oberlin College, 1851-1866, it was a
station on the Underground Railroad smuggling slaves to freedom.<br />
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Under
his leadership, Oberlin College granted the first college degree in the
United States to a black woman, Mary Jane Patterson.<br />
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Charles Finney died AUGUST 16, 1875.<br />
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Concerning the Kingdom of God, he wrote:<br />
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"Every member must work or quit. No honorary members."<br />
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In his article, 'The Decay of Conscience' published in THE INDEPENDENT of NEW YORK, December 4, 1873, Charles Finney wrote:<br />
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"Christ crucified for the sins of the world is the Christ that the people need. <br />
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Let us rid ourselves...of neglecting to preach the law of God until the consciences of men are asleep. <br />
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Such
a collapse of conscience in this land could never have existed if the
Puritan element in our preaching had not in great measure fallen
out..."<br />
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Finney continued:<br />
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"If immorality prevails in the land, the fault is ours in a great degree. <br />
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If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. <br />
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If the public press lacks moral discrimination, the pulpit is responsible for it. <br />
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If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. <br />
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If the world loses its interest in religion, the pulpit is responsible for it. <br />
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If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. <br />
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<strong>If
our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our
government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it.</strong> <br />
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Let
us not ignore this fact, my dear brethren; but let us lay it to heart,
and be thoroughly awake to our responsibility in respect to the morals
of this nation."<br />
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In Lecture XV 'Hindrances to Revival' (<em>Revival Lectures</em>, 1855), Charles Finney wrote:<br />
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"The church must take right ground in regard to politics. <br />
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Do
not suppose, now, that I am going to preach a political sermon, or
that I wish to have you join and get up a Christian party in politics. <br />
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No,
I do not believe in that. But the time has come that Christians must
vote for honest men, and take consistent ground in politics, or the
Lord will curse them. <br />
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They must be honest men themselves, and
instead of voting for a man because he belongs to their party, Bank or
Anti-Bank, Jackson, or Anti-Jackson, they must find out whether he is
honest and upright, and fit to be trusted. <br />
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They must let the
world see that the church will uphold no man in office, who is known to
be a knave, or an adulterer, or a Sabbath-breaker, or a gambler...<br />
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Every
man can know for whom he gives his vote. And if he will give his vote
only for honest men, the country will be obliged to have upright
rulers..."<br />
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Finney continued:<br />
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"The church must act right or the country will be ruined. <br />
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God cannot sustain this free and blessed country, which we love and pray for, unless the church will take right ground. <br />
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Politics
are a part of religion in such a country as this, and Christians must
do their duty to the country as a part of their duty to God. <br />
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seems sometimes as if the foundations of the nation were becoming
rotten, and Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see
what they do in politics. <br />
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<span style="color: red;"><em>Child Welfare Information Gateway E-lert!</em></span> August 2014</h1>
<a href="http://listserve.icfi.com/t/579101/364820/30552/0/">Encourage your colleagues to subcribe to <em>E-lert!</em></a><br />
To ensure that <em>E-lert!</em> reaches you each month, please add us to your safe senders list.<br />
The following new and updated publications and resources are now available from <a href="http://listserve.icfi.com/t/579101/364820/30553/0/">Child Welfare Information Gateway</a>. Use the links listed below, or <a href="mailto:info@childwelfare.gov?subject=From%20Elert%20August%202014">contact us</a> to request print copies, which we will mail you free if they are available.<br />
<strong>Share our <a href="http://listserve.icfi.com/t/579101/364820/30554/0/">publications</a> with your colleagues via email, Facebook, and more!</strong><br />
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Child Welfare Evaluation Virtual Summit Series</h1>
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In continuation of the Child Welfare Evaluation
Virtual Summit Series, the Children's Bureau has released a five-part
video series entitled <em>A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Practice in Child Welfare. </em>Each
video in the series addresses components of the framework: (1)
Introducing the New Framework, (2) Identify and Explore, (3) Develop
& Test and Compare & Learn, (4) Replicate & Adapt and Apply
& Improve, and (5) Tying It All Together.<br />
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The Child Welfare Evaluation Virtual Summit
Series videos tackle evaluation-related topics, and many propose
solutions to common evaluation problems. The videos combine
illustration, animation, motion graphics, and content from national
experts.<br />
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Access all videos currently available from the <a href="http://listserve.icfi.com/t/579101/364820/30555/0/">Virtual Summit Series on the CB website</a>.<br />
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New and Updated Publications</h1>
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Two companion publications on intercountry adoption are now available:<br />
<strong>Intercountry Adoption: Where Do I Start?</strong><br />
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Provides an overview of the intercountry
adoption process. Adoption procedures vary depending upon the service
provider and the State or country from which the child is adopted and
may change over time. This factsheet addresses meeting legal
requirements, bringing a child home, and adjusting to the new family.<br />
<a href="http://listserve.icfi.com/t/579101/364820/30556/0/">https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/f_inter/</a><br />
<strong>Intercountry Adoption From Hague Convention and Non-Hague Convention Countries</strong><br />
Compares two types of intercountry adoption:
adoption from countries that are party to the Hague Convention on
Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry
Adoption and from countries that are not. The process for adopting a
child from another country changed in some significant ways with the
U.S. ratification of the Hague Convention.<br />
<a href="http://listserve.icfi.com/t/579101/364820/30557/0/">https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/hague.cfm</a><br />
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The Children's Bureau Legacy: Ensuring the Right to Childhood</h1>
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The passage of the Family Preservation and
Support Services Program in 1993 authorized the Children's Bureau to
direct additional resources and support to State and local agencies to
strengthen and expand front-end preventive services to families;
improve the functioning of judicial systems; and support an approach to
child welfare that was increasingly family centered, community based,
and individualized. Learn more in Chapter 7 of <em>The Children's Bureau Legacy: Ensuring the Right to Childhood</em>.<br />
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<a href="http://listserve.icfi.com/t/579101/364820/30558/0/">http://cb100.acf.hhs.gov/CB_ebook</a><br />
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Revisiting Child Abuse Prevention Month 2014</h1>
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Professionals and community members nationwide
have been accessing our enhanced 2014 prevention resources and applying
them to efforts to help children and strengthen families. The 2014
National Child Abuse Prevention Month website received more than 70,000
visits, and the <em>2014 Prevention Resource Guide: Making Meaningful Connections </em>has
been distributed or downloaded nearly 63,500 times. In customer
feedback surveys, an overwhelming majority of respondents tell us that
these resources are useful.<br />
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Visit the National Child Abuse Prevention Month website and let us know what you think:<br />
<a href="http://listserve.icfi.com/t/579101/364820/30560/0/">https://www.childwelfare.gov/preventing/preventionmonth/</a><br />
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Did You Know?</h1>
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The Child Welfare Information Gateway website
provides links to reports, databases, and other sources of statistical
and demographic data on children and families in the United States,
child abuse and neglect, child welfare services, children and youth in
foster care, and domestic and international adoption.<br />
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<a href="http://listserve.icfi.com/t/579101/364820/30562/0/">https://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/statistics/</a><br />
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In This Month's CBX</h1>
The July/August issue of <em>Children's Bureau Express</em>
(CBX) highlights the co-occurrence of child maltreatment and domestic
violence and points to research and resources on supporting families
affected by domestic violence, including immigrant and refugee families.<br />
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<a href="http://listserve.icfi.com/t/579101/364820/30563/0/">https://cbexpress.acf.hhs.gov</a><br />
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Subscribe to CBX at <a href="http://listserve.icfi.com/t/579101/364820/30552/0/">https://www.childwelfare.gov/admin/subscribe</a>.<br />
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Upcoming Conferences</h1>
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We will be at the following upcoming conferences. Please stop by and see us if you will be attending!<br />
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August 17-20: 37th National Child Welfare, Juvenile, and Family Law Conference, Denver, CO<br />
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August 26-29: 27th Annual National Independent Living Conference, "Growing Pains 2014" for Adults and Youth, Denver, CO<br />
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September 7-10: 19th International Conference & Summit on Violence, Abuse & Trauma, San Diego, CA<br />
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September 17-19: Child Welfare League of America
(CWLA) National Kinship Care Conference, "Building Communities of
Caring for Children and Families," New Orleans, LA<br />
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To help us meet your needs, we welcome your
ideas and suggestions. Please check out our website for publications
surveys and other ways you can provide input. Thank you!<br />
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Connect With the Children's Bureau and Information Gateway on Facebook</h1>
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The Children's Bureau and Child Welfare
Information Gateway are on Facebook! "Like" both pages today and start
connecting with others in child welfare and related professions.<br />
<a href="http://listserve.icfi.com/t/579101/364820/30564/0/">http://www.facebook.com/thechildrensbureau</a><br />
<a href="http://listserve.icfi.com/t/579101/364820/30565/0/">http://www.facebook.com/childwelfare</a><br />
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<strong>Child Welfare Information Gateway</strong><br />
Phone: 800.394.3366<br />
Email: <a href="mailto:info@childwelfare.gov?subject=From%20Elert%20August%202014">info@childwelfare.gov</a><br />
Web: <a href="http://listserve.icfi.com/t/579101/364820/30553/0/">https://www.childwelfare.gov</a></div>
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Flourishing Children Project has tested the applicability of measures
of positive youth well-being to racially-and economically-diverse
populations, and spoken with youth to find out what they think is
important to measure. We have also developed short, sound multi-item
measures of positive development that work among diverse youth. Measures
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developmentally-appropriate, not appropriate for diverse populations,
or not short or rigorous enough to be used for national surveys and
program evaluations. Child Trends' Flourishing Children Project
developed multi-item measures, or scales, to measure 19 aspects of
flourishing in six areas: flourishing in school and work, personal
flourishing, relationship skills, relationship quality, helping others
to flourish, and environmental stewardship. We learned a lot about
developing scales for youth through cognitive interviews, and we pass on
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needed for federal and state data collections, as well as early
childhood programs. Child Trends is vetting existing measures of social
and emotional development in early childhood for the Federal Interagency
Forum on Child and Family Statistics, and is preparing an inventory of
measures, with a paper (to be released this fall) reviewing the measures
according to multiple criteria. The areas of social-emotional
development being reviewed include emotional competence, social
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Leonard Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04820936865691005703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302431590205390335.post-43306252483217565042014-08-13T13:24:00.003-07:002014-08-13T13:24:51.957-07:00Bring Parental Rights Home to Your State<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aug. 13, 2014</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Bring Parental Rights Home to Your State</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Just two years
ago, only three states offered legislative protection for parental
rights. Since then five more states have secured similar laws. The
Parents’ Bill of Rights adopted by Oklahoma this spring was likely the
most comprehensive parental rights legislation anywhere, ever. And we
anticipate seeing even more gains in 2015.<br />
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<strong>But the time to get those efforts started is now.</strong><br />
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That’s why Jim and Patti Sullivan of Florida are already talking with
lawmakers about a parental rights statute in the Sunshine State.
They’re working with some of the same leaders in the Florida government
who were instrumental in the passage of a 2011 memorial calling on
Congress to adopt the Parental Rights Amendment.<br />
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And in Ohio we have been working to coordinate with two potential
allied organizations regarding parental rights legislation there. Our
hope is to introduce an Oklahoma-like bill early in the term that starts
in January, 2015.<br />
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Similar efforts are in the works in other states, too, including
Mississippi, Washington, Missouri, Idaho, New Jersey, Texas, and North
Carolina.<br />
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<strong>At this point, ParentalRights.org has a wide array of sample
parental rights statute language to fit nearly any state’s political
climate.</strong> Even the least parent-friendly states can agree on our
medical rights statute drafted in answer to the Pelletier case in
Massachusetts. It quotes a New York appeals court decision in saying
that the state cannot charge parents with medical neglect if the parents
are operating under the direction of a licensed medical professional,
following a known course of treatment, for their child’s reasonably
diagnosed condition.<br />
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More parent-friendly states may be ready to adopt a more wide-ranging
statute, such as our basic language that declares that “<strong>the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their child is a fundamental right.</strong>” This is the same standard that would be adopted nationally with the passage of the Parental Rights Amendment.<br />
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And the most parent-friendly states could model their legislation on
the full-spectrum statement of detailed parental rights signed by
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin in June.<br />
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So whatever the climate in your state, we can provide a fitting starting point. It may be that <em>all we need is you to get the ball rolling!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Action Items</strong></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">1. Remember to <strong>visit your Congressman this month</strong> and encourage their support for the Parental Rights Amendment, HJRes. 50. For more on how to plan your visit, go to <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=5152b779f3b382ac237f5fa5994c463c5m6565535515&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2591&targetUrl=http://4pra.us/visit" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">4pra.us/visit</a>.<br />
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2. Remember also to <strong>visit your Senators and urge them to oppose ratification of the Convention</strong> on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. For more on why we oppose this treaty, visit <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=5152b779f3b382ac237f5fa5994c463c5m6565535515&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2588&targetUrl=http://parentalrights.org/crpd" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">parentalrights.org/crpd</a>. Then go to <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=5152b779f3b382ac237f5fa5994c463c5m6565535515&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2605&targetUrl=http://4pra.us/visit" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">4pra.us/visit</a> for more on making your visit. Let them know that <em>no
reservation, understanding, or declaration can excuse using the
international treaty power to pass domestic policy in a free and
self-governing nation.</em><br />
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3. <strong>Get the ball rolling in your state!</strong> To see where you stand, visit your state’s page by clicking on your state at <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=5152b779f3b382ac237f5fa5994c463c5m6565535515&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2598&targetUrl=http://parentalrights.org/states" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">parentalrights.org/states</a>. Then, email your State Coordinator and ask them how you can help get a statute going. Or fill out our volunteer form at <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=5152b779f3b382ac237f5fa5994c463c5m6565535515&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2592&targetUrl=http://parentalrights.org/volunteer" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">parentalrights.org/volunteer</a>,
and put “state statute” in the “special skills” box. Working together,
we can protect children by preserving parental rights all across the
country.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
<br />
Michael Ramey<br />
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<span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>D</strong></span>emocrat Congressman Albert S. Herlong, Jr., of Florida, read into the U.S Congressional Record, January 10, 1963, <strong>a list of Communist goals for America,</strong> (Vol 109, 88th Congress, 1st Session, Appendix, pp. A34-A35).<br />
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<strong>Communist goals included</strong>:<br />
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"Eliminate
prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the
ground that it violates the principle of 'separation of church and
state'...<br />
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Discredit American culture... Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and divorce..."<br />
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Democrat Rep. Herlong continued listing Communist goals:<br />
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"Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as 'normal, natural, healthy'...<br />
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Infiltrate churches and replace revealed religion with 'social' religion...<br />
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Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a 'religious crutch'...<br />
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Control schools. <br />
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Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. <br />
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Soften curriculum. <br />
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Get control of teachers' associations. Put party line in textbooks... <br />
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Control student newspapers..."<br />
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AUGUST 11, 1984, by an 88-11 Senate vote and a 337-77 House vote, Congress passed the Equal Access Act, stating:<br />
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"It
shall be unlawful for any public secondary school which receives
Federal financial assistance and which has a limited open forum, <br />
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to
deny equal access or a fair opportunity to, or discriminate against,
any students who wish to conduct a meeting within that limited open
forum on the basis of the religious, political, philosophical, or other
content of the speech at such meeting." <br />
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Regarding this, President Reagan commented August 23, 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas:<br />
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"We even had to pass a special law in the Congress just a few weeks ago<strong> to allow student prayer groups the same access</strong> to school rooms after classes <strong>that a Young Marxist Society</strong>...would already enjoy." <br />
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The Supreme Court upheld the Equal Access Act by a vote of 8-1 in <em>Westside Community Schools v. Mergens,</em> June 4, 1990:<br />
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"If
a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others,
then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.<br />
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The
Establishment Clause does not license government to treat religion and
those who teach or practice it...as subversive of American ideals." <br />
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Ronald Reagan stated in a radio address, February 25, 1984:<br />
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"Former
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart noted if religious exercises are
held to be impermissible activity in schools, religion is placed at an
artificial and state-created disadvantage.<br />
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Permission for such
exercises for those who want them is necessary if the schools are truly
to be neutral in the matter of religion.<br />
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And a refusal to permit
them is seen not as the realization of state neutrality, but rather as
the establishment of a religion of secularism."<br />
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U.S. District Court, <em>Crockett v. Sorenson</em>, W.D. Va,. 1983:<br />
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"The First Amendment was never intended to insulate our public institutions from any mention of God, the Bible or religion.<br />
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When such insulation occurs, another religion, such as secular humanism, is effectively established." <br />
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This reaffirmed what George Washington wrote to the United Baptist Churches of Virginia, May 10, 1789:<br />
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"If
I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the
Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside,
might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical
Society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it." <br />
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Ronald Reagan, on the National Day of Prayer, May 6, 1982, commented:<br />
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"Well-meaning
Americans in the name of freedom have taken freedom away. For the sake
of religious tolerance, they've forbidden religious practice." <br />
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Ronald Reagan told the Annual Convention of the National Religious Broadcasters, January 30, 1884:<br />
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"I was pleased last year to proclaim 1983 the Year of the Bible. <br />
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But,
you know, a group called the ACLU severely criticized me for doing
that. Well, I wear their indictment like a badge of honor."<br />
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In the Supreme Court case of <em>Town of Greece, NY, v. Galloway et al</em>, Justice Kennedy wrote in the decision, May 5, 2014:<br />
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"Respondents
maintain that prayer must be nonsectarian...and they fault the town for
permitting guest chaplains to deliver prayers that 'use overtly
Christian terms' or 'invoke specifics of Christian theology'...<br />
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An
insistence on nonsectarian or ecumenical prayer as a single, fixed
standard is not consistent with the tradition of legislative prayer...<br />
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The
Congress that drafted the First Amendment would have been accustomed to
invocations containing explicitly religious themes of the sort
respondents find objectionable. <br />
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One of the Senate's first
chaplains, the Rev. William White, gave prayers in a series that
included the Lord's Prayer, the Collect for Ash Wednesday, prayers for
peace and grace, a general thanksgiving, St. Chrysostom's Prayer, and a
prayer seeking 'the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, &c'..."<br />
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Justice Kennedy continued:<br />
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"The
decidedly Christian nature of these prayers must not be dismissed as
the relic of a time when our Nation was less pluralistic than it is
today. <br />
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Congress continues to permit its appointed and visiting chaplains to express themselves in a religious idiom...<br />
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To
hold that invocations must be nonsectarian would force the
legislatures...and the courts...to act as...censors of religious
speech...<br />
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Government may not mandate a civic religion that
stifles any but the most generic reference to the sacred any more than
it may prescribe a religious orthodoxy..."<br />
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Justice Kennedy added:<br />
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"Respondents argue, in effect, that legislative prayer may be addressed only to a generic God. <br />
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The
law and the Court could not draw this line for each specific prayer or
seek to require ministers to set aside their nuanced and deeply personal
beliefs for vague and artificial ones. <br />
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There is doubt, in any event, that consensus might be reached as to what qualifies as generic or nonsectarian..."<br />
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"While
these prayers vary in their degree of religiosity, they often seek
peace for the Nation, wisdom for its lawmakers, and justice for its
people, values that count as universal and that are embodied not only in
religious traditions, but in our founding documents and laws. <br />
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The first prayer delivered to the Continental Congress by the Rev. Jacob Duché on Sept. 7, 1774, provides an example:<br />
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'Be
Thou present O God of Wisdom and direct the counsel of this Honorable
Assembly; enable them to settle all things on the best and surest
foundations; that the scene of blood may be speedily closed; that Order,
Harmony, and Peace be effectually restored, and the Truth and Justice,
Religion and Piety, prevail and flourish among the people. <br />
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Preserve
the health of their bodies, and the vigor of their minds, shower down
on them, and the millions they here represent, such temporal Blessings
as Thou seest expedient for them in this world, and crown them with
everlasting Glory in the world to come. All this we ask in the name and
through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Saviour, Amen'...<br />
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'I have witnessed...the workings...of that anti-Christ, Karl Marx... The
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<span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>H</strong></span>erbert Hoover was born AUGUST 10, 1874.<br />
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His Quaker mother taught Sunday School and spoke at Friend's meetings before dying when he was ten.<br />
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Hoover lived on an Indian Reservation in Oklahoma before moving to Oregon.<br />
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He worked his way through Stanford University doing laundry, delivering papers and working for the U.S. Geological Survey.<br />
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He became a world renowned engineer.<br />
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Trapped
in China when the Boxer Rebellion broke out in 1900, Herbert Hoover
directed the building of barricades under heavy fire while his wife
worked in the hospital.<br />
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In World War I, at the request of the American Consul, Hoover helped 120,000 Americans stranded in Europe return home.<br />
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He
directed the feeding of Belgium after Kaiser Wilhelm II overran it and
orchestrated feeding the Allied nations while avoiding rationing at
home.<br />
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After the war, Herbert Hoover arranged the feeding of millions starving in Central Europe and Russia.<br />
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He served as Secretary of Commerce for Presidents Harding and Coolidge.<br />
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Of President Harding, Hoover wrote in his memoirs, (published 1952):<br />
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"(Harding)
had another side which was not good. His political associates had been
men of the type of Albert B. Fall (Teapot Dome Scandal)...Harry
Daugherty (bootlegging scandal)...Charles Forbes (embezzled $225,000)...
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He enjoyed the company of these men (in) weekly White House
poker parties...the play lasted most of the night... It irked me to see
it in the White House."<br />
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In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded, leaving 1.5 million people displaced from their homes.<br />
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Herbert
Hoover mobilized state and local authorities, militia, army engineers,
the Coast Guard, and the American Red Cross, and set up health units
which stamped out malaria, pellagra and typhoid, gaining him national
appreciation.<br />
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In 1929, Herbert Hoover became the 31st U.S. President.<br />
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In his Inaugural, March 4, 1929, President Herbert Hoover entreated:<br />
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"Ill-considered
remedies for our faults brings only penalties after them. But if we
hold the faith of the men in our mighty past who created these ideals,
we shall leave them heightened and strengthened for our children...<br />
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I ask the help of Almighty God in this service to my country."<br />
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Less than eight months later, the Stock Market crashed due to domestic and international conditions.<br />
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Though
implementing a volunteerism plan of aid through the States, political
opposition tended to prolong recovery, thereby sabotaging his
reelection.<br />
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Hoover
warned in a speech at Madison Square Garden, NY, October 31, 1932,
against his opponent's collectivist "New Deal" plans of the government
taking control of businesses:<br />
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"To enter upon a series of deep changes...would be to undermine and destroy our American system...<br />
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No
man who has not occupied my position in Washington can fully realize
the constant battle which must be carried on against incompetence,
corruption, tyranny of government expanded into business activities...<br />
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Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die."<br />
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In 1935, the Hoover Dam was dedicated. Later that year, September 17, 1935, Herbert Hoover stated in San Diego, CA:<br />
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"Our Constitution...is based upon certain inalienable freedoms and protections which in no event the government may infringe...<br />
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It does not require a lawyer to interpret those provisions.<br />
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They are as clear as the Ten Commandments...<br />
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Behind
them is the conception which is the highest development of the
Christian faith-the conception of individual freedom with brotherhood."<br />
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Herbert Hoover proposed a solution to the Middle East crisis which was reported in a <em>Scripps-Howard Press</em> interview, November 19, 1945:<br />
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"My own suggestion is that Iraq might be...the scene of resettlement of the Arabs from Palestine.<br />
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This would clear Palestine completely for a large Jewish emigration and colonization.<br />
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A suggestion of transfer of the Arab people of Palestine was made by the British Labor Party in December, 1944."<br />
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At a reception for his 80th birthday in West Branch, IA, August 10, 1954, Herbert Hoover stated:<br />
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"<strong>I have witnessed on the ground in 20 nations the workings of the philosophy of that anti-Christ, Karl Marx...</strong><br />
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I want to say something...not in the tones of Jeremiah but in the spirit of Saint Paul...<br />
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Our Founding Fathers did not invent the priceless boon of individual freedom and respect for the dignity of men.<br />
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<strong>That great gift to mankind sprang from the Creator and not from governments...</strong><br />
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<strong>Today
the Socialist virus and poison gas generated by Karl Marx and
Friedreich Engels have spread into every nation on the earth...</strong><br />
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Their dogma is absolute materialism which defies truth and religious faith..."<br />
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Hoover continued:<br />
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"A
nation is strong or weak, it thrives or perishes upon what it believes
to be true. If our youth are rightly instructed in the faith of our
fathers...then our power will be stronger."<br />
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"To this whole gamut of Socialist infections, I say to you...God has blessed us with...heritage.<br />
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The
great documents of that heritage are not from Karl Marx. They are from
the Bible, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the
United States. Within them alone can the safeguards of freedom survive."<br />
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In his Memorial Day Address at Valley Forge, PA, 1931, President Herbert Hoover stated:<br />
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by the grace of God, we stand steadfast in our great traditions through
this time of stress, we shall insure that we and our sons and daughters
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;">The
relationship between families and their early care providers or
teachers is an important factor in promoting positive child outcomes.
The Family and Provider/Teacher Relationship Quality (FPTRQ) project
offers tools for measuring the quality of these relationships. Three
webinars will provide information about FPTRQ specifics, targeted to
different audiences. Attendees will learn about the project, survey
development, and how to use and score the surveys. FPTRQ is funded by
the Administration for Children and Families' Office of Head Start and
Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.</span></div>
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the </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GAwjx_SfjcGSq_S1FrlDgFyKLZ2qeQ8K0Zj4ZAUm8Pcvy1f0r0w1dgWkYrRNQCHR5rbZ_6BGwlWV_G920ChtINy_UuQFtKZ0eouTn-Il3aDnCTfWeRKg1dp43Ld9kmlMsmh3BCouMSr2RzrVbZqzegZ3Yt_oDqwDgV-Mpn2yw3j8E2e8mh1qpH4toGsZtgZkMOv1GCOZv7geHe2yNWeIeeTcG02Me-MuuTefNfwqPe2eXtqHayfTkuw-8NnzpmN0FhtzlIl-xk4BB3oHMJXLJGk1hpYoa9nqpfZtNneB_W4-E3aBia5jrruNGaqe3nRjNKkhK2wj_mnhpIUtdJgiE-eI84prg8z0&c=Q3v4NSH5JK6D-GHCb3Q0Kq3IcPT0n7xl2l6WUlb8ejlxMRPS3Q89sw==&ch=GezjKJHNW4XX2IPgvmfQvLisD2NMpGn23U8-lq9Ua6ajXrNEe3BHBg==" shape="rect" style="color: #8ab0dd;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Tauck Family Foundation</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">,
Child Trends has developed tools to help educators assess and monitor
the extent to which they are improving students' social and emotional
skills. In a new report, we recommend which skills to focus on,
highlight the research on the importance of these skills, and suggest
ways to incorporate skills measurement into regular classroom data
collection. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia;">August 6, 2014</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong>When the Sign Says “No Parents Allowed”</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Perhaps this
has happened to you. You walk into the doctor’s or the dentist’s office
and you find a sign like the one shown at right. “Parents: Due to new
HIPAA and OSHA regulations you are not permitted beyond this point!”<br />
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What can you do? And what <em>should</em> you do?<br />
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For many, the first response is disbelief, followed by anger.
Maybe you’re thinking, as a commenter on our Facebook post of this
weekend did, “Whole lotta NOPE going on right here!” But <strong>the best response is generally to talk with the staff</strong>.<br />
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Some practices really do fail to respect the special role parents
play in a young patient’s life. But most professionals understand and
appreciate what parents bring to the table. (And as another commented,
it is often not the doctor but overreaching government that is pushing
them to “police” you anyway. The doctor may well be on your side!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">So <strong>start with a practice you trust</strong>.
If you are new to an area, ask around. Go in and “interview” the
office. Learn their reputation. Then, as one dental professional
suggested, go yourself before you take your child. Were you comfortable
enough with them when they cleaned your teeth to let them work on your
child as well? (Obviously this advice is of no use in the emergency
room, but great for the dentist or family doctor.)<br />
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You might assume, as many did when we posted this picture (and as we
did ourselves) that the dentist is claiming falsely that new HIPAA
guidelines require them to separate parent from child to protect the
child’s privacy. What we learned from the West Virginia dentist’s office
where this picture was taken, however, was that their office’s open
floor plan forces them to balance parental rights against the privacy of
<em>the person in the next bay over</em>. Parents, however, are always
included in their child’s exam and all decision making. When they saw
how their sign was misunderstood, they quickly took it down, and they
have assured us that they respect the role of parents with their
children.<br />
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In the case of <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=16015d479d9a3358a15a20e9159d083a1m5154225160&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2518&targetUrl=http://www.ijreview.com/2014/06/144923-one-mom-hospital-tries-pull-daughter-aside-private-conversation/" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Michigan mother Christy Duffy</a>
two months ago, it took a public outcry to drive the hospital to back
away from its posted policy. In this current case, all it took was a
conversation. (The practice also received a good deal of heat from our
post, but that proved to be unnecessary.)<br />
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So talk to your doctor or dentist. <strong>If you see a sign like this one, ask them about it.</strong>
If it is truly their intention to stand between you and your child,
find a new doctor. If it is not, you might graciously suggest they fix
their sign. Either way, both your children and our cause will be served
best by a polite and civil discourse for as long as that is possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong>CRPD Update and August Recess</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Now, when
discourse fails, we apply the massive pressure that only concerned
parents can bring. And that is just what we expect we will need to halt
the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this fall.<br />
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We made it to August recess without a vote in the Senate, but <em>your senators need to hear from you now more than ever</em>. The closer we get to the end of the term in December, <strong>the harder treaty proponents will push</strong> for a vote that could ultimately rob parents of their parental rights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">So please take a moment now to <strong>line up a visit to your senators’ offices</strong> while they are home for August recess. You can find a <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=16015d479d9a3358a15a20e9159d083a1m5154225160&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2514&targetUrl=http://4pra.us/visit" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">step-by-step visit guide at 4pra.us/visit</a>.<br />
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Then, <strong>secure your membership to ParentalRights.org</strong>. Your $50 <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=16015d479d9a3358a15a20e9159d083a1m5154225160&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2525&targetUrl=http://parentalrights.org/donate" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">annual donation</a>
will give you access to Elite Member content, including this month’s
package on Internet Safety. As an added bonus (and in light of the
uproar that today’s sign has caused), <em>we will also include last month’s package on Parental Rights in the Medical Setting at no extra charge.</em><br />
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Finally, <strong>talk about parental rights</strong>. Talk to your
friends and family, your doctor and dentist, your child’s teachers and
administrators, and anyone else who will listen. The more your rights
are known, the less likely they are to be overridden by accident – and
the less those who would do so on purpose will be able to get away with
it!<br />
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Sincerely<br />
<br />
Michael Ramey<br />
Dir. of Communications & Research<br />
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Leonard Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04820936865691005703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302431590205390335.post-90747476064054187382014-08-04T07:12:00.001-07:002014-08-04T07:13:22.897-07:00Liberty Quotes<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="moz-email-headers-table">
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">"The state must declare the child to
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act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the
wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and
submit."<br />
</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">-- Adolf Hitler<br />
</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">(1889-1945) German Nazi Dictator<br />
</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Source: Mein Kampf, vol 2, ch 2, THE STATE<br />
</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mondopolitico.com/library/meinkampf/v2c2.htm" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.mondopolitico.com/library/meinkampf/v2c2.htm</a><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">"Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards."<br />
</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">-- Francis Xavier<br />
</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">[Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta] (1506-1552) Roman Catholic missionary, co-founder of the Society of Jesus<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin<br />
</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">[Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov] (1870 - 1924), First Leader of the Soviet Union<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Liberty-Tree.ca (c) Copyright 2010</span>Leonard Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04820936865691005703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302431590205390335.post-15147082722197260332014-07-28T11:07:00.000-07:002014-07-28T11:07:14.674-07:00Urgent: Call Right Now to Reject UN Disabilities Treaty<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia;">July 28, 2014</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Urgent: Call Right Now to Reject UN Disabilities Treaty</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Champion of Parental Rights,<br />
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We have received intelligence that this week, supporters of the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) will be
lobbying in force for Senate ratification of this dangerous United
Nations treaty. <strong>They are busing in activists, making phone calls, and pulling out all of the stops.</strong><br />
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We must match their efforts. <strong>Please call your two U.S. Senators right now and politely but firmly urge them to defeat the CRPD. </strong>Then,
make a point to call again on Tuesday afternoon; we understand treaty
supporters have scheduled a rally for that time, and we need to meet
strength with strength. You can reach your senators by calling the
Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and asking for them. You can also
find their contact information by clicking on your state at <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=a5170ee160b632e9ba78d942fcff1277am7632905a51&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2466&targetUrl=http://Parentalrights.org/states" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Parentalrights.org/states</a>.<br />
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Your message can be as simple as the following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><em>“I
urge you to oppose the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities. This treaty surrenders U.S. sovereignty to unelected UN
bureaucrats and will threaten parental care of children with
disabilities. Our nation already has laws to protect Americans with
disabilities. This treaty is unnecessary and will hurt families by
giving bureaucrats, instead of parents, the power to decide what is in
the best interests of a child with disabilities.”</em></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I know you are
busy parenting your children. I know many of you have already called and
you may feel your senator is not listening to you. But I also know that
your dedication to US sovereignty, educational freedom, and parental
rights made the difference in 2012 when the Senate rejected the CRPD.
Please take the time to make these calls again. I know that if we are
united in making our voices overwhelmingly heard, we can win again.<br />
<br />
Senate staffers may argue that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
added Reservations, Understandings, and Declarations (“RUDs”) to the
CRPD to answer our concerns with the treaty. RUDs are considered to be
weaker than treaty language under international law, as my <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=a5170ee160b632e9ba78d942fcff1277am7632905a51&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2472&targetUrl=http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/2014/201407221.asp" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">recent analysis</a> shows. <strong>Do we dare to trust our God-given right to direct the education and upbringing of our children to these RUDs?</strong><br />
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Other staffers may argue that the treaty is only a statement of
support for people with disabilities, and will not change US law. Remind
these staffers that Article VI of the US Constitution says treaties
that are ratified with the consent of the Senate “shall be the supreme
Law of the land; and<strong> the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby</strong>,
any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary
notwithstanding.” The US already is the world leader in advancing the
rights of persons with disabilities – we don’t need to ratify a UN
treaty to remain the leader.<br />
<br />
Thank you for calling. <strong>Please forward this email to your friends and urge them to call as well.</strong>
At this point, the CRPD has not yet been scheduled for a floor vote,
which means that supporters of the treaty still do not have the
two-thirds majority they need to pass it. Your phone calls and letters
are making the difference.<br />
<br />
To learn more about the CRPD and to read it for yourself, please visit <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=a5170ee160b632e9ba78d942fcff1277am7632905a51&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2467&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/crpd" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">www.parentalrights.org/crpd</a>.<br />
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For liberty,<br />
<img alt="" height="77" src="https://secure.parentalrights.org/neon/resource/parentalrights/images/Farris-signature.gif" style="height: 77px; width: 240px;" width="240" /><br />
Michael P. Farris, JD, LLM<br />
President, ParentalRights.org<br />
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Leonard Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04820936865691005703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302431590205390335.post-21081451016970634302014-07-23T12:15:00.003-07:002014-07-23T12:15:43.501-07:00CRPD Passes Committee: Help Us Stop It Once Again!<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia;">July 23, 2014</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong>CRPD Passes Committee: Help Us Stop It Once Again!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">The United
Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday by a 12-6 vote.
That’s the bad news, and <strong><a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=d8e050d754221fe61222d6cdb7eeffecdm4160694d8e&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2423&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=5&amp;" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">we need your support</a> to halt this treaty that can now be brought to the Senate floor for a final vote at any time</strong>.
A two-thirds majority is needed to provide consent for its
ratification, meaning 34 “No” votes are enough to stop it – but they
could be hard to come by.<br />
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Then there is good news, from a different and unexpected direction, which also <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=d8e050d754221fe61222d6cdb7eeffecdm4160694d8e&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2406&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=5&amp;" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">requires immediate funding</a>. Oklahoma’s new Parents’ Bill of Rights, signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin just last month, has <strong>prompted
other organizations, including local school administrations, to reach
out to ParentalRights.org for interpretation and application of the law</strong>.
How do they need to shape their policies – especially those relative to
data collection under the soon-defunct Common Core – to respect the
rights of parents now called for under this statute? That they are
looking to us as experts on this law creates a tremendous opportunity
for us in that state.<br />
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<strong>These two recent events demand that we both <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=d8e050d754221fe61222d6cdb7eeffecdm4160694d8e&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2413&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=5&amp;" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">fund</a> and<em> take immediate action</em> in the effort to protect parental rights.</strong><br />
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The CRPD’s passage out of committee greatly increases our need to
have an on-going presence on Capitol Hill. We must make certain this
treaty does not pass – whether brought to a full Senate vote, or sneaked
through when nearly no one is on the floor (as Harry Reid attempted
once before). <strong>We also need to increase calls to our senators urging them to vote “no.”</strong> (Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 or click on your state at <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=d8e050d754221fe61222d6cdb7eeffecdm4160694d8e&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2418&targetUrl=http://parentalrights.org/states" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">parentalrights.org/states</a> for your senators’ office numbers.)<br />
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Meanwhile, the Oklahoma development means we need to secure reviews
of the law from legal experts explaining its application in several
areas. Everything from public schools to child abuse investigations to
medical decisions was covered by the bill, and <strong>providing solid guidance on each subject will allow us to stake our position as <em>the go-to experts</em> on parental rights</strong>.<br />
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To do either of these requires <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=d8e050d754221fe61222d6cdb7eeffecdm4160694d8e&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2421&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=5&amp;" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">your generous donation today</a>, and the fact is we need to do both. Please take a moment, dig deep, and <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=d8e050d754221fe61222d6cdb7eeffecdm4160694d8e&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2415&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=5&amp;" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">give</a> to help us drive the success we have enjoyed and defeat this dangerous treaty for perhaps the final time.<br />
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(The CRPD, like any treaty, can be brought back at any time. But if
the Senate’s structure shifts this November as many pundits expect, the
CRPD may not pose as great a threat for some time as it does <em>right now</em>.)<br />
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We must stop the Senate from giving away American sovereignty and
enlisting the U.N. to set American domestic policy. And we need to step
up as the parental rights experts in Oklahoma as well.<br />
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We know things are tight, and we greatly appreciate all of your past support. But <em>we simply cannot win without you now</em>. Please <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=d8e050d754221fe61222d6cdb7eeffecdm4160694d8e&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2407&targetUrl=https://secure.parentalrights.org/donation.jsp?campaign=5&amp;" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">give today</a> as we strive to keep our country free!<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
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Michael Ramey<br />
Director of Communications & Research</span><br />
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Join
Bill Federer for the 125th Anniversary Celebration of the dedication of
the Pilgrim Monument at Plymouth Rock (see details below)</div>
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I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God" -<br />
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wrote poet <strong>Carl Sandburg</strong>, who died JULY 22, 1967.<br />
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A son of Swedish immigrants who worked on the railroad, <strong>Sandburg</strong> left school after 8th grade, borrowed his father's railroad pass and traveled as a hobo.<br />
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<strong>Sandburg</strong>
volunteered for military service, was sent to Puerto Rico in the
Spanish-American War, and then attended college on a veteran's bill.<br />
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<strong>Carl Sandburg</strong> wrote children's fairytales, called <em>Rootabaga Stories</em>, and mused of his wanderings in <em>American Songbag</em>.<br />
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<strong>Carl Sandburg</strong> wrote:<br />
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"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."<br />
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In 1926, <strong>Carl Sandburg</strong> wrote <em>Abraham Lincoln-The Prairie Years</em>, and in 1939 he wrote <em>Abraham Lincoln-The War Years</em>, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize.<br />
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In 1959, <strong>Sandburg</strong> was invited to address Congress on Lincoln's birthday.<br />
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In his <em>Complete Poems</em>, for which he won a Pulitzer, 1951, <strong>Carl Sandburg</strong> wrote:<br />
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"All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.<br />
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At sixty-five I began my first novel...<br />
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It could be, in the grace of God, I shall live to be eighty-nine...I might paraphrase:<br />
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'If God had let me live five years longer I should have been a writer.'"<br />
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<strong>Carl Sandburg</strong> wrote:<br />
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"<strong>When a nation goes down</strong>, or a society perishes, <strong>one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from</strong>."<br />
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President Ronald Reagan stated in his State of the Union Address, January 25, 1984:<br />
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"Each day your members observe a 200-year-old tradition meant to<br />
signify America is one nation under God. <br />
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I
must ask: If you can begin your day with a member of the clergy
standing right here leading you in prayer, then why can't freedom to
acknowledge God be enjoyed again by children in every school room across
this land? <br />
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America was founded by people who believed that God was their rock of
safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on
our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His
side.... <br />
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<strong>Carl Sandburg said, 'I see America not in the
setting sun of a black night of despair... I see America in the
crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of
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The International Conference on Shared Parenting on 9-11, July 2014 in
Bonn, Germany under the theme "Bridging the Gap between Empirical
Evidence and Socio-Legal Practice" was the first international and
interdisciplinary gathering of scholars, practitioners and NGO
representatives interested in the emerging paradigm of shared parenting
in families in which parents are living apart. The conference was
jointly chaired by the President of the International Council on Shared
Parenting (ICSP), Professor Edward Kruk, Canada, and Professor Dr. jur.
Hildegund Sünderhauf, Lutheran University Nuremberg, Germany, and
supported, among others, by the German Federal Ministry of Family
(Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend/BMFSFJ).<br /><br />
A wide range of topics as well as perspectives on shared parenting were
discussed and debated, leading to 6 major theses. "First of all,"
Professor Kruk, stated, "shared parenting — being defined as
encompassing both shared parental authority and shared parental
responsibility — is a viable post-divorce parenting arrangement. Thus
national family law should at least include the possibility to give
shared parenting orders." Nevertheless, "an accessible network of family
relationship centres that offer family mediation and other relevant
support services are critical in the establishment of a legal
presumption of shared parenting, and vital to the success of shared
parenting arrangements," Professor Sünderhauf underlined. "The above
apply to the majority of children and families, including conflict
families, but not to situations of substantiated family violence and
child abuse." The Preliminary Conference Conclusions are available on
the conference <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=http%3A%2F%2Ftwohomes.org%2Fconferenceconclusions_2014" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">website</a>:<br />The
International Council on Shared Parenting (ICSP) will offer conferences
on an annual basis. The follow-up International Conference on Shared
Parenting is scheduled for 28-30 May 2015 in Bonn, Germany.<br />
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<strong>Conference Conclusions:</strong>
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<li>At the conclusion of our first International Conference on Shared
Parenting the Scientific Committee has developed the following Consensus
Statement:</li>
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Keeping in mind that the main goal of our Council is to develop
evidence-based approaches to the needs and rights of children whose
parents are living apart, we established as the theme for our first
conference, "Bridging the Gap between Empirical Evidence and Socio-Legal
Practice". We drew around 100 delegates from 17 countries to our first
conference, from the scientific, family profession and civil society
sectors.<br /><br />
This was the first such gathering of scholars, practitioners and NGO
representatives interested in the emerging paradigm of shared parenting
in families in which parents are living apart. A wide range of topics as
well as perspectives on shared parenting were discussed and debated,
and at the end of the conference we were challenged in regard to
determining what sort of consensus emerged on a number of important
issues that we discussed and debated. <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalparentsorganization.org%2Fcomponent%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F16-latest-news%2F21811-first-international-conference-on-shared-parenting" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">Read more...</a></ol>
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<strong>First Annual Conference of the International Council on Shared Parenting Met July 9-11, 2014 in Bonn, Germany</strong></span>
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<span style="color: #840029; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rolling Stone, New York Channel Danielle Schreiber, Trash Jason Patric</span><br />
<span style="color: #7c7c7c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>July 17, 2014 by Robert Franklin, Esq.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
anti-dad crowd is at it again. This time it’s Jason Patric who’s in
their sights. Patric of course did the unforgiveable in their eyes; he
won in court. So <em>Rolling Stone Magazine</em> dispatched a reporter to do a <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fculture%2Fnews%2Ftempest-in-a-test-tube-jason-patrics-brutal-custody-battle-20140715" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">hatchet job</a> on Patric (<em>Rolling Stone</em>, 7/15/14). That done, <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Fthecut%2F2014%2F07%2Fabusive-celebrity-face-of-fathers-rights.html" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">New York Magazine</a> uncritically channeled its claims that, for the most part, were solely sourced to Patric’s ex, Gabrielle Schreiber (<em>New York,</em> 7/16/14). Gee, what could be more fair and balanced than that? <em>Rolling Stone’s</em> bias in the matter becomes clear just from Patric’s written response to their questions. <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalparentsorganization.org%2Fblog%2F21810-rolling-stone-new-york-channel-danielle-schreiber-trash-jason-patric" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #840029; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Heather MacDonald: A Little Right, A Lot Wrong on the Problem of Fatherless Kids</span><br />
<span style="color: #7c7c7c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>July 16, 2014 by Robert Franklin, Esq.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sodahead.com%2Funited-states%2Fideas-for-renewing-american-prosperity%2Fquestion-4409751%2F%3Flink%3Dibaf%26q%3Dideas%2Bfor%2Brenewing%2Bamerican%2Bprosperity" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">Here’s</a> a good, and not so good, piece by Heather MacDonald in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> (<em>Wall Street Journal</em>,
7/8/14). It’s part of a series of short pieces by various luminaries
under the general title “Ideas for Renewing American Prosperity.”
MacDonald rightly argues we must “Encourage Two-Parent Families.” Here’s
what she has to say:. <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalparentsorganization.org%2Fblog%2F21809-heather-macdonald-a-little-right-a-lot-wrong-on-the-problem-of-fatherless-kids" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #840029; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Georgia Court: More Indigent Fathers not Entitled to Lawyers When Facing Child Support Jail</span><br />
<span style="color: #7c7c7c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>July 14, 2014 by Robert Franklin, Esq.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two years ago in <em>Turner v. Rogers</em>,
the United States Supreme Court ruled that indigent non-custodial
parents who’ve failed to pay all they owe in child support do not have
the right to a court-appointed lawyer to represent them. As I discussed <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalparentsorganization.org%2Fblog%2F16883-supreme-court-indig" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">here,</a>
that decision was based in part on Justice Breyer’s fantasies about the
nature of child support enforcement hearings. Specifically, he imagined
that, perhaps, judges in those hearings might assist indigent litigants
in producing the type of evidence and arguments that might allow them
to avoid jail as by proving they have no assets with which to pay. <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalparentsorganization.org%2Fblog%2F21805-georgia-court-more-indigent-fathers-not-entitled-to-lawyers-when-facing-child-support-jail" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #840029; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">National Public Radio Gets It on Absent Dads</span><br />
<span style="color: #7c7c7c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>July 13, 2014 by Robert Franklin, Esq.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The news media get so much wrong about fathers, families and children, it’s always nice when they get it right as <em>National Public Radio</em> did <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2014%2F07%2F08%2F329798341%2Fteaching-family-skills-to-tackle-poverty" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">here</a> (<em>NPR</em>, 7/8/14). Now, there are certainly some things amiss with the article, but, on par, it’s a pretty fair piece of work.
<a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalparentsorganization.org%2Fblog%2F21804-national-public-radio-gets-it-on-absent-dads" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #840029; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Scottish Law an Unprecedented Usurpation of Parental Authority</span><br />
<span style="color: #7c7c7c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>July 11, 2014 by Robert Franklin, Esq.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
government of Scotland has established a program of intervention into
family life and parental decision-making that is unprecedented in
Western culture. <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiked-online.com%2Fnewsite%2Farticle%2Fnamed-persons-spies-in-the-family-home%2F15261%23.U76wpE1OWUn" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">Here’s</a> one article (<em>Spiked</em>, 6/25/14). The law, entitled the <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.legislation.gov.uk%2Fasp%2F2014%2F8%2Fpart%2F4%2Fenacted" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">Children and Young People Act</a>,
goes into full effect in August, 2016, but has already done so in
certain areas. It requires local governmental authorities to establish a
“Named Person Service. <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalparentsorganization.org%2Fblog%2F21803-scottish-law-an-unprecedented-usurpation-of-parental-authority" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span>
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<span style="color: #840029; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Latest Domestic Violence Study Stands Gender Feminism on its Head</span><br />
<span style="color: #7c7c7c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>July 10, 2014 by Robert Franklin, Esq.</em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This past Monday I posted a piece about a <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fdoi%2F10.1002%2Fab.21499%2Ffull%23ab21499-sec-0004" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">new study of domestic violence</a>
out of the United Kingdom. There’s not a lot new in it, but it
certainly corroborates what we already know — that women are as likely
or more likely to hit their intimate partners as are men. But the study
itself is considerably more than that. For one thing it gives some of
the history of feminism’s attempt to make DV a gendered issue, the frank
dishonesty of that attempt and its utter failure.
<a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=44746350&msgid=712904&act=J7MC&c=1012846&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalparentsorganization.org%2Fblog%2F21802-latest-domestic-violence-study-stands-gender-feminism-on-its-head" style="color: #840029;" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Senate Committee Schedules CRPD Vote - Call Today!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Champion of Parental Rights,<br />
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The U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee will vote on the
dangerous UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(CRPD) on Tuesday, July 22.<br />
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Now is the time to let the Senate hear loud and clear that Americans
are firmly opposed to surrendering our sovereignty, parental rights, and
the rights of people with disabilities to unelected, unaccountable UN
bureaucrats. <strong>Please call and email your two U.S. senators right now and urge them to reject the CRPD.</strong>
We need every single parent and concerned citizen to make their voice
heard. Bad bills can be repealed, but once a treaty is ratified there is
no going back.<br />
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You can reach your senators by calling the <strong>Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121</strong>, or find their direct office line by clicking on your state at <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=e81fc30eac5ba354131e3e9be300248bem8509284e81&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2354&targetUrl=http://parentalrights.org/states" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">parentalrights.org/states</a>. (You can also use the shortcut 4pra.us/ followed by the 2-letter postal abbreviation for your state. Live in Florida? That's <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=e81fc30eac5ba354131e3e9be300248bem8509284e81&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2362&targetUrl=http://4pra.us/fl" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">4pra.us/fl</a>.)<br />
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Your message can be as simple as the following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><em>“I
urge you to oppose the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities. This treaty surrenders U.S. sovereignty to unelected UN
bureaucrats and will threaten parental care of children with
disabilities. Our nation already has laws to protect Americans with
disabilities. This treaty is unnecessary and will hurt families by
giving bureaucrats the power to decide what is in the best interests of a
child with disabilities, not the child’s parents.”</em></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">We do not have
the votes to stop the CRPD in the Foreign Relations Committee. That is
why we urge you to call not only the senators on the Committee, but also
your own two senators. Please call even if your senator supports the
treaty, or even if he or she opposes it. <strong>Every senator needs to hear from us.</strong> The following senators are on the Foreign Relations Committee:</span><br />
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<td>Robert Menendez (NJ): (202) 224-4744</td>
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the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.” If
ratified by the Senate, government officials could use this section to
override parents’ decisions for their child with a disability.<br />
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Other provisions of the CRPD promote abortion, require a national
registry of all children with disabilities, and threaten U.S.
sovereignty and our fundamental right to govern ourselves. The term
“disability,” however, is not defined. Our nation already has the best
laws in the world to protect Americans with disabilities, and we use our
leadership and foreign aid overseas to urge nations to protect their
own citizens with disabilities. <strong>This treaty is unnecessary and will weaken U.S. leadership </strong>by replacing our nation’s proven record on disability rights with UN “leadership.”<br />
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Some senate staff may argue that the CRPD isn’t dangerous because it
can be amended with Reservations, Understandings, and Declarations
(“RUDs”). No one has seen the proposed RUDs yet, so we don’t even know
if they are well-written. But more importantly, RUDs are fatally flawed.
The CRPD itself says in Article 46, “Reservations incompatible with the
object and purpose of the present Convention shall not be permitted.”
Who decides? The UN. International law experts have made the same
arguments, and we cannot trust our freedom to five justices on the
Supreme Court making the right ruling. In addition, a future Senate
could withdraw RUDs.<br />
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Some senate staff may also argue that the recent Supreme Court ruling in <em>Bond v. United States</em> addresses our concerns. I answered this argument on HSLDA's site <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=e81fc30eac5ba354131e3e9be300248bem8509284e81&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2350&targetUrl=http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/2014/201406120.asp?src=slide&slide=UNCRPD_Is_Back_June_2014&pos=5" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">here</a>. <strong>Bond was an incredibly narrow ruling, and it never addressed the treaty power issue.</strong>
In fact, the concurring opinions by Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito
prove that our concerns about UN treaties are completely justified.<br />
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The good news is that <strong>your action defeated the CRPD in 2012.</strong>
By the grace of God, we can do it again. Please call right now and
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most young women who have children are unmarried (86 percent of births
to women 18-19, and 65 percent to those 20-24, in 2012), reflecting the
fact that most young adults are unmarried. <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001kZHR05eqzx_0cK4fb0mLjF1uNWc9hx_ooOyC5dNsND33yH7IJ7wE6wkUYqZzqyyEuEpUj026y5nlFd6_BDrlsCNKQHPXwxwzE_O_J9ksPW_0mRWosrM0RS_G8SO1mcv8ojSrtVgXpVTo-KJPELWW8UQla5SxcKBjjG94tRWHIKDBv_I0KdhfhI_ZPoCFO9rMDFQtF25z5jAlmn2tRuhXnI1hlYtFsQYZ5nrQvyp_mytqt8dS0Ax4lAJWYsICuVX6PMAMXUbr6m7VOMCMpJDop1pvBOiTVvMFvgmBzJrrKoPPjaAhDr0LqDtcQk1yx-xnzegkT_xntbzldnIYrad87s1te-jLFZDxPL3o0MUcwdUKaRCcOz_7r9uVC6bn7QCv&c=dSGZoFg0TlfyLVoKtTmNiVLq_UB5ZSfthfV1t4LQaSOlyZDBOgk90Q==&ch=zuMF1s0MIkaSq5j1CbZK77Z7B3r231Q5xo_gpYiO_J5mtrlB0LKTPg==" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Birth rates for young women</span></a> (18-24) are at a historic low, though. According to the <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001kZHR05eqzx_0cK4fb0mLjF1uNWc9hx_ooOyC5dNsND33yH7IJ7wE6wkUYqZzqyyEiujug32y9YFl_4vKTro3CDMzaexuBAqF4-OgAdDJ2nqBpaCJDPzTaEZb5kwsY3NdN5KtT8wNEx5OaJRrYc_QAcDvh6nRoUhjwQqx4lgwcjeEMybetIeI5TBaVX0njirl7xEV24b5s9MBNjqRBMNB3xJgXwFVCS1n4VOsZzj39lHXnGzqlZ5r6B7EfTHS51Fdo-l8cgIQ2jdPv6WujqOmBgQ3M0dNBLRJ1NYRPf7eL9LUIT51TOusn2nW3wiZdxNvzsliWH5R2q6s2KzMmLa_WYo8Rl6P40O3l4blw9dCQ1D7NvLD4BpNKc32ACvzIntDCAqhSeIEsV_upAcunyRtwg==&c=dSGZoFg0TlfyLVoKtTmNiVLq_UB5ZSfthfV1t4LQaSOlyZDBOgk90Q==&ch=zuMF1s0MIkaSq5j1CbZK77Z7B3r231Q5xo_gpYiO_J5mtrlB0LKTPg==" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">DataBank</span></a>, more than four in ten births overall are to unmarried women. Most unmarried births now occur to cohabiting parents.<br /><br />Our <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001kZHR05eqzx_0cK4fb0mLjF1uNWc9hx_ooOyC5dNsND33yH7IJ7wE6wkUYqZzqyyEQCIG8Z6Rcrh6AiPTQMc0TIXvPqxXzGQ2D75fbkylQnjqJGlQmHMs0IjD0lEhnU4Cvg6NIHWfu_YmSRoHFLurQXdkc24foB3xP-mfarex9MorA49yZaUZ2biTOlx2aMImZSJOZteRDz_NysgoQJ-ACxlFybq0uTWi21f1tFMnGvnh-UEX662Y-XMfQ-wP4aFeW3VknLcdjb1rTr6SRwXgaaAUq4TYB6UjYOOoW3f9K2qHgQe4W4mWqIMeUeUORRLdqR8hp7WbdHCt06Jr2B3c7cafzafQWWnUccRVZebEVSVk3-ZBR7BRdbcnZPl6iThjv_1n_KdM-yipioLac14chANxyEDubaVnFrh7zLLvTMwBCHDXJtXfqw==&c=dSGZoFg0TlfyLVoKtTmNiVLq_UB5ZSfthfV1t4LQaSOlyZDBOgk90Q==&ch=zuMF1s0MIkaSq5j1CbZK77Z7B3r231Q5xo_gpYiO_J5mtrlB0LKTPg==" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">blog post</a>
this week highlights that the rate of childbearing among U.S. teens
15-19 is also at a historic low. This drop is good news for these teens
as they enter early adulthood; for women, having a child as a teen is
associated with reduced educational attainment and an elevated risk of
poverty. See the blog for more nuance. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">The percentage of young adults who've attained </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001kZHR05eqzx_0cK4fb0mLjF1uNWc9hx_ooOyC5dNsND33yH7IJ7wE6wkUYqZzqyyEZpKOKtMJJUszyu9ihj6p5kwQYkDyNvCGjNd-5xvofAgARaAaWuPnw-dG2MOX47KzszLgly3eIAIngkpis2VyexTB7Kmtrz3Ggb0fpK9KRfmh3mgci-gll2kc21V7SIPI3_7KqZm3v2TOVRV4me-7ufuEkPk9pc4BNGNimbAMHdZuIFU-kgT2JfCGw4vG56-Qro6DdpOWpqAr2gM5FDNL8BOzzivPDMFxbjOw-4biKVx5YCw5t-ncQu6BUGldrO8VpZ4T8J5lz4zzzDFpC8UJWSXmaxontqhlXst2Y9cptbBKHDyY5xRdmg==&c=dSGZoFg0TlfyLVoKtTmNiVLq_UB5ZSfthfV1t4LQaSOlyZDBOgk90Q==&ch=zuMF1s0MIkaSq5j1CbZK77Z7B3r231Q5xo_gpYiO_J5mtrlB0LKTPg==" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">higher levels of education</span></a><span style="color: black;"> has increased gradually, though the </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001kZHR05eqzx_0cK4fb0mLjF1uNWc9hx_ooOyC5dNsND33yH7IJ7wE6wkUYqZzqyyEQuOvWUCT-0qXcnK_9v5aX2-s6hM2ddh4GqdZX5YIAKPAy-cl4isMXcGycr-OPj4gOZCvUzbnlN22cZXlQEkSXaOZTUbV5OYO1KvY3L5HV-IAr-ceKP62zCmZoy7nZsOXweMHga4AGPBIwjIEZqfEBBkq7weRb0PFiVI9IknGzQHwEXHjXJ9QZQLaZ6blknFiO8JDyDkZPWgKezcN4heMILKwwW3yrYmXK-FC6npb4pEyDmrdTDZT8_SCuOywgiKJnQVsEZNDnOi3cHRxFJqw9d8isQuj1RT91k6Kh8pvwK6lo1htDBRQCQ==&c=dSGZoFg0TlfyLVoKtTmNiVLq_UB5ZSfthfV1t4LQaSOlyZDBOgk90Q==&ch=zuMF1s0MIkaSq5j1CbZK77Z7B3r231Q5xo_gpYiO_J5mtrlB0LKTPg==" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">cost of college</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and
the percentage of young adults in debt to pay for it are also up.
Well-educated young adults are good news for their current and future
children, as higher levels of parental educational attainment are linked
to positive outcomes for children, the DataBank says.</span> </span></div>
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by federal guidelines, though the percentage meeting these guidelines
was still only 30 percent in 2011-12. This is lower than the percentage
of their younger counterparts (12<sup>th</sup> graders) who participated in school athletics in 2011; according to the DataBank, that number was 56 percent. </span></div>
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<span class="small_italics"> This month, CBX draws attention to the
co-occurrence of child maltreatment and domestic violence (DV), points
to research on case outcomes for child welfare-involved families
affected by domestic violence, and highlights a factsheet series for
parents about how children may respond to family violence. </span>
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<span class="small_italics"> Nominations for the annual Adoption
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readiness assessment tool to help States, Tribes, and territories
evaluate assets and readiness to provide postpermanence supports and
services for children, youth, and families. </span>
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<span class="small_italics"> This month, CBX points to a new issue of CW360°
that is focused on well-being in child welfare, new products to help
spread the messages from a 2013 report on child abuse research, and an
article on a project initiated by the National Center for Youth Law to
examine the problem of unwanted pregnancy among youth in foster care.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia;">July 16, 2014</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Common Core Jettisoned for State Control, Parent Involvement</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">On Monday
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon signed into law House Bill 1490, which
repealed and replaced key sections of Missouri law relating to
elementary and secondary education standards, including the Common Core.
On a day when Nixon nearly set a record for vetoing bills, <strong>one of the few that he signed was a tremendous victory for parental rights</strong>:
HB 1490 calls for the adoption of new state academic standards,
rejecting the Common Core that Nixon brought to Missouri in the first
place.<br />
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According to the <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=3ad78a0f15fcf942fb04ab2fbfe3830f3m01479643ad&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2289&targetUrl=http://www.corestandards.org/standards-in-your-state/" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Common Core website</a>,
the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (“the
Department”) adopted the standards on June 15, 2010, to be fully
implemented throughout the state in the coming 2014-15 school year. As
governor, Nixon exercised authority over the Department at the time. But
the public outcry against the standards has been great, and the
legislature has responded.<br />
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The Common Core State Standards Initiative, or Common Core, is a
national set of academic standards established by private corporations
and state executive trade unions and backed by federal dollars, in
violation of the Constitution’s separation of powers. Significantly,
very few professional educators were part of developing the standards,
and the ones who were involved refused to sign off on the final product.<br />
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HB 1490, which ParentalRights.org supported, does more than simply reverse the decision to adopt this program, however. <strong>It
also outlines a whole new procedure for adopting academic standards in
the future, including many new safeguards to prevent another federal
takeover.</strong><br />
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The Common Core was adopted by the Department during the summer break
between school years, without any legislative oversight, review, or
public input. Education, which is traditionally and constitutionally a
role of the states and not the federal government, was handed over to
the latter without any say from the people.<br />
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That will not happen again under HB 1490, which requires that any
academic standards revision must go through work groups assigned by the
legislature. These work groups, to be comprised of education
professionals and parents of children in the grade levels to which the
standards will apply, will be selected by a wide range of persons. The
governor, lieutenant governor, commissioner for higher education,
president pro tempore of the senate, speaker of the Missouri House,
statewide association of Missouri school boards, and the state board of
education are among those tapped by the bill to each name members to the
groups. (Read the whole list in <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=3ad78a0f15fcf942fb04ab2fbfe3830f3m01479643ad&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2277&targetUrl=http://legiscan.com/MO/text/HB1490/2014" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">section A(3) here</a>.)<br />
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In addition, the law states that whenever standards are developed or
modified a minimum of three public hearings will be held, giving parents
and other concerned citizens a voice before any changes are made. And
it prohibits the Department “from mandating the curriculum, textbooks,
or other instructional materials to be used in public schools.” Such
decisions are left to the local school boards, though they will of
course be chosen to meet the academic standards set by the state.<br />
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Common Core, with its requirement that material taught in addition to
the guidelines must not exceed 15% of all material studied, greatly
restricted any discretion on the part of state or local officials in
correcting or supplementing the standards, regardless of what would
prove best for students. The new law includes a provision that “local
school districts and charter schools may adopt their own education
standards, in addition to those already adopted by the state,” as long
as they don’t create a direct conflict with the state standards. There
is no limit by percentage, which allows for more local control.<br />
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Each of these safeguards will prevent the kind of heavy-handed power
grabbing that led to the Common Core being adopted by 43 states and the
District of Columbia in the first place. (For more on how Common Core
sprang up so quickly, <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=3ad78a0f15fcf942fb04ab2fbfe3830f3m01479643ad&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2270&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?SEC=%7bDD1E4039-3547-4CCE-B0FD-4B46B866FF76%7d" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">click here</a>.) Instead, <strong>HB 1490 protects the role of parents, through local educators and state lawmakers, in directing the education of their children.</strong><br />
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We are grateful for the support of those of you in Missouri who
called, emailed, or otherwise spoke out to champion this bill. And we
are proud of Missouri for returning education to the purview of parents
and state lawmakers, and not to deep-pocketed special interest groups
and the federal educrats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Action Items</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The CRPD is still an impending threat in the U.S. Senate.</strong> For more on the dangers, <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=3ad78a0f15fcf942fb04ab2fbfe3830f3m01479643ad&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2268&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?SEC=%7b20D0981D-7D74-43AD-B748-776EA0867E21%7d" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">click here</a>.
If you have not already taken action, or if you haven’t lately, please
call your senators and urge them to oppose ratification of this
dangerous treaty that will sacrifice American sovereignty and your
parental rights for a (alleged) public relations boost. You can find
your senators’ office numbers by clicking on your state at <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=3ad78a0f15fcf942fb04ab2fbfe3830f3m01479643ad&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2271&targetUrl=http://parentalrights.org/states" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">parentalrights.org/states</a>.<br />
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In addition, the Parental Rights Amendment is still collecting cosponsors in the House (Rep. Mark Meadows’ <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=3ad78a0f15fcf942fb04ab2fbfe3830f3m01479643ad&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2274&targetUrl=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hjres50ih/pdf/BILLS-113hjres50ih.pdf" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">HJRes. 50</a>) and in the Senate (Sen. Lindsey Graham’s <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=3ad78a0f15fcf942fb04ab2fbfe3830f3m01479643ad&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2269&targetUrl=http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/37?q=%7B%22search%22%3A[%22sjres37%22]%7D" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">SJRes. 37</a>). <strong>Contact your lawmakers</strong> (access their contact info at <a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=3ad78a0f15fcf942fb04ab2fbfe3830f3m01479643ad&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2272&targetUrl=http://parentalrights.org/states" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">parentalrights.org/states</a>) and urge them to sign on as a cosponsor. Or you can<strong> set up an appointment to see them while they are home on recess in August. </strong><a href="https://secure.parentalrights.org/nps//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=parentalrights&emailId=3ad78a0f15fcf942fb04ab2fbfe3830f3m01479643ad&secureId=ol21qnx1AQw%3D&linkId=2281&targetUrl=http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?SEC=%7b0C4D445F-8A81-4715-A1F6-BEF83E6B4274%7d" style="color: darkred;" target="_blank">Click here for more on setting up an appointment.</a><br />
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Thank you for standing with us to defend parental rights. This victory in Missouri proves that <em>success can be reached</em> if we stand together and make the will of the people known!<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
<br />
Michael Ramey<br />
Director of Communications & Research </span><br />
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