Thursday, April 14, 2011

Whose children are they?



As the rights of parents have been eroded and replaced with an "it takes a village" mentality, the lines of responsibility have become blurred.  We no longer seem to have a clear vision of who is responsible for caring for our young.  Are the parents responsible for the care and nurturing of their children, or is that the job of various "professionals" such as daycare providers, doctors and educators?  Who should ensure that our children are properly fed and get adequate exercise?  What about health care?  Should that be left up to uneducated parents, or should those decisions be made by the State?

Clearly, the burden of responsibility is shifting.  The brown bag lunch packed by mom is a thing of the past, replaced with breakfast and lunch (and sometimes even dinner) eaten on a plastic tray with carefully managed portions designed for optimum health (at least, according to the current nutritional fads), provided by an illustrious "Nanny State" that doesn't believe parents can be trusted to adequately feed their own children.  If you don't want to have to tighten your belt to pay for your children's medical expenses, that's O.K., the omnipresent State will take care of it for you!

We have given the State the controlling share of our households, our property and our children and then we get our knickers in a twist when the State demands authority.  We want to have our cake and eat it too!  We want our children educated in State schools, nourished by federally mandated hot lunch programs and kept healthy a publicly funded medical system and then we stomp our feet in anger when the State has the audacity to require something of us that we don't like.  "How dare they tell us we can't pray in school" or "What do you mean I can't order a Happy Meal for Johnny?".  Of course they have the right to require anything they want.  They own us.  We have willingly auctioned our lives for the price of security.  They promised to take care of us, feed us, cloth us and meet our every need.  In exchange, we offered them our children, our land and our very lives.  They are the master and we are the servants.  What did we expect?

If you don't believe me, just read this story.  The State does own our children, and if we cross them, they will exercise their authority.  The masters must keep the slaves in their rightful place .  There are many more of us than there are of them - they can't let us get out of line or we may take back our own lives, and where will that leave them?

Choose you this day who you will serve.

18 comments:

  1. The type of state regulated system that gave back a child to a mentally ill mother, who hung the child a few months later. Yes, the state/gov't obviously knows what is good for people. Besides that fact that CPS is so overwhelmed that they can't even tell right from wrong. Arg!

    If the schools offer such "healthy" meals why are there groups, like Jamie Oliver, trying to change the way meals are served to healthier home cooked meals instead the frozen bricks of crap heated up and served to kids.

    "steps off of soap box"

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  2. Thank you for this link Enola. It brought tears to my eyes, and a red-hot rage in my heart. I plan on posting this link also.

    Thank you for some sanity in this insane world.

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  3. Two choices here.
    One, remain beholden to the "state" while they are brainwashing your children and relinguishing you of your rights and responsibilities. And don't bite the hand that feeds your kids while they are brainwashing them.

    Two, remain beholden-ed to no one but God!
    Keep your children out of the public school systems.
    Home school. Home feed your children.
    Replace those dictators in the state, county, city, and in the US Congress with candidates that believe and practice "FREE STATE" principles!

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  4. @Kim: LAUSD has 77 cents per plate to make a meal. Now, I don't send my kids there, but I think it would be pretty hard to make ANYTHING nutritious and good for you for six bits (http://goo.gl/TFSP3 abc7.com)

    Which leads me to ask, "When can we see some more good recipe and food storage posts?" My favorites were canned bacon and the can sealer. As a result of those posts, I own an Ives-Way #500 sealer and have done up several pounds of nitrite free bacon!

    The "Philosophy of Prepper" posts are great but I want to see the how-to of doing it off grid!

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  5. I love your blog, and I don't mean to be the punctuation/spelling police, but in your title "Who's" should read "Whose".
    teresa from maine

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  6. Teresa;
    Thanks for the editing!
    Enola

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  7. You're welcome - thanks for being a good sport about it : )
    teresa from maine

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  8. Amen! It bothers me that a school can take away the right for a parent to send a lunch with their child and feed their child. Who's responsibility is this. We chose homeschooling for a different reason, our child being profoudly gifted and her needs unable to be met, but I am more and more glad we have everyday I see how much the goverment is taking parental responsibilities away.

    -Amanda
    www.adventuresinansleyland.blogspot.com

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  9. That link made me so mad.

    On another note, here are some good recepies and ideas on food storage - http://everydayfoodstorage.net/

    She does some good you tube tutorials.

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  10. ANOTHER FORCEFULL SEPPERATION OF FAMILY- ITS OUTRAGIOUS!!!!2 DAYS AGO I WAS AT THE DR OFFICE AND THERE WERE PEOPLE DISCUSSING THE NEWS THAT WAS BEING BROADCAST THERE- COMMENTS LIKE - OVER IN LIBYA THEY SHOULD JUST STORM THE COUNTRY AND TAKE THE RULER OUT-- I SAT THERE IN SHOCK-- I KEPT QUIET, KNOWING IF I OPENED MY MOUTH THERE WOULD ENSUE A FIGHT-- ARE THESE PEOPLE BLIND ,CRAZY OR BOTH?--- DO THEY THINK THAT IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAD AN UPRISING THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULDNT USE MILITARY FORCE AGAINST US TO KEEP CONTROL.. OF COURSE THEY WOULD DO THE SAME AS THE RULER THERE IS DOING.. THEY WOULD FIGHT LIKE MADMEN TO KEEP CONTROL... WAKE UP AMERICA AND READ READ READ OUR CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS..GOD BLESS EVERYONE...

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  11. I feel so bad for this woman and child, but a big part of this happened because she went to a doctor to get more medication to correct the effects of the vaccinations. I am always so appalled when people turn to the state or another institution for solutions to their problems and then are shocked that when we don't follow the recommendations, life all of a sudden becomes ridiculously complicated.

    However, in this case, if a parent had forced a child to take that medication, they would be convicted of child abuse. But because it was the state? They have the power to torture and harm children!!?! Who will prosecute them if not us?

    We should be out of the system altogether. Don't work for the state, don't use their "free" services unless the situation is extreme and life or limb is at stake, and fly under the radar. Don't leave paper trails. Don't let someone else give your child their political and religious education. Have a set of beliefs, abide by them, and TEACH THEM TO YOUR CHILDREN!!

    We start homeschooling next year - sixth grade - and my son and I are both looking forward to it! (I am actually better at teaching subjects, philosophy, languages, math, paragraph construction, etc than the basics such as basic writing and counting.)

    I can't wait!!

    ~Beth

    P.S. It's hard doing this as a single mom, so if anyone knows any cute single guys who think like I do and love kids let me know. Thanks. :)

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  12. When my children were younger, we went to a dentist who "specialized in children". We had (have) dental insurance so just about everything was covered. It began to seem like every time we went in, one or both of my children "had a little cavity" starting. I could not figure out how their teeth were "so bad". They were not on flouride poison and they had a note in their file that no flouride was to be used. I started feeling like they were using our insurance and my children to make money. The final time we went there, my daughter supposedly had a cavity forming in a deciduous tooth that was one of the next in line to come out and I chose not to have it filled. I got a call from their office to schedule the appointment and said no. The lady then proceeded to tell me all the horrible things that could happen if we did not do it. I explained that we could also be killed in a car wreck on the way into town and that was more likely than what she was trying to scare me with. Then, she pulled the "well, if you don't, we will have to file charges of medical neglect against you." Wow, I was really livid then and told her don't you ever threaten me. Needless to say, we never went back there. My daughter's tooth came out just fine and she never had a toothache nor an infection "going up into the frontal lobe of her brain". That is what she really said to me. Later, we found out that at least three other families had similar experiences with these people. Sickening.
    Paintedmoose

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  13. Today is April 15th. There are Tea Party gatherings all across America today. How many of you have attended one (or more)? How many of you actually take a stand and DO SOMETHING? I don't mean taking your kids out of public schools, although that's a good start. Rather, I mean how many of you gather with like-minded people to make a stand against governmental abuse?

    The only way to change the course of the country is to participate in city council meetings - speak up about increased taxes, or rising government pensions or pay increases while the rest of the country languishes. Attend political rallies for candidates you support so they'll have a sense that they are not alone out there. Write letters to your newspapers or to your elected officials. Do you do something or do you simply come here to whine?

    It is not enough to sit at the computer and complain about statism. It is going to take action and determination and sustained rejection of TPTB. I know it is difficult and time-consuming and an inconvenience given all the other things we have going on in our lives, but if we don't do it...who will? This country was not given to us as a gift - it was handed to us as the next generation to fight for it. Freedom isn't free, it takes blood and sweat and tears. Do we have the courage to stand up and push back or do we meekly plod along to the prison that is statism?

    Who is John Galt? WE ARE! Molon Labe!!

    Anonymous Patriot
    USA

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  14. The lady posting about the dental issue brings to mind what is going on with our family. We have been using the state supplied insurance for our 2 children due to a very small income and they needed some dental work done. We attempted to set up a payment plan but was told that isn't acceptable. Anyways, my son hates using toothpaste, he only brushes with baking soda and lots of times forgets to brush even. My daughter uses toothpaste and brushes at least 3 times a day. Every time we take them to the dentist, she has a lot of cavities and he doesn't have any. She always needs work done and he doesn't. Another family in our community has the same thing going on in their family. Also the dentist now uses something for fillings that makes the kids hurt bad, down in to their jaw even. When we ask about how long this pain might last, we are told anywhere from 2 months to 6 months. Thie is common in every dentist office in our nearby city. Several parents have decided that our kids are being experimented on because of the state insurance. We are getting them off of it as soon as possible. And start using baking soda to brush.

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  15. Great post I passed it along.

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  16. From Genesis to Revelation God's Word tells of the MOST WONDERFUL story of LOVE and MERCY. Our Heavenly Father SEES and is patiently waiting for people to turn to Him in repentance of their sins and still.....In the Book of Revelation, John writes what he saw and wrote what he was told to write....this is the warning from the MOST HIGH GOD.....and finally at the end of the end, after righteousness, people still raised their fists against the LOVING MOST HIGH GOD...then eternity...They didn't care about their children or anyone else but themselves and they willing turned their children over for destruction to the government or whoever...
    We have had a long time to know this was coming and yet, as a nation, chose not to turn from sin and repent and take responsibility for our actions...
    Sad very sad....I am in prayer for people to turn back to a Loving Father who is on the Throne of Grace and only through the BLOOD of OUR PRECIOUS JESUS are we able to be there.
    Thank you for letting me give my two cents.
    God Bless

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  17. Perhaps there wouldn't be a nanny state if more parents actually did take care of their children, i.e. be there for them, cook real meals for them, etc. It's appalling the condition of modern families and the resulting oversight that's now evolved to fill the void.

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  18. The whole thing just makes me sick . I am not a violent person by nature but I just want to grab those do gooders, shake the crap out the them and give 'em a smack.

    Tina

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