"Your children are not your children..." Do you know what your parental rights are?

Marianna, Kahlil's Sister. Painting by Kahlil Gibran

On Children

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, 

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, 

which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, 

but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children

as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, 

and He bends you with His might 

that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;

For even as He loves the arrow that flies, 

so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Kahlil Gibran

via parentalrights on youtube:

Overruled: Government Invasion of your Parental Rights (Official Movie)

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke

"The Bill of Rights was designed trustfully to prohibit forever two favorite crimes of all known governments: the seizure of private property without adequate compensation and the invasion of the citizen's liberty without justifiable cause and due process."  H.L. Mencken 

 quotes from "Quotationary" by Leonard Roy Frank; link to website. 

parentalrights.org

via Nancy Schafer playlist:

Nancy Schaefer "The Unlimited Power of Child Protective Services"





published as 'Parental Rights Under Attack' November 18, 2011 and January 17, 2012 with 'Overruled'

Kahlil Gibran via katzanddogz.com 

Corrupt Courts A National Problem

From the Expose Corrupt Courts Blog:  Saturday, March 5, 2011

Judicial System Greed Using Families a National Problem

County Children and Youth - State court is asked to step in
The Times Leader by Terrie Morgan-Beseckertmorgan - March 4, 2011

Attorney’s petition likens workings of county dependency court to “kids-for-cash” scandal.

An attorney who represented parents who have lost custody of their children to Luzerne County Children and Youth Services has asked the state Supreme Court to take jurisdiction over the county’s dependency court based on numerous abuses he alleges are being committed by caseworkers and others involved with the court system. Attorney James Hayward, whose license is now under suspension, said he filed a King’s Bench petition with the Supreme Court on Feb. 18, one day before his suspension took effect. Hayward said he filed the petition – an extraordinary measure that is utilized in cases alleging egregious violations – as a last-ditch effort to help his clients before he began serving the one-year suspension of his law license. “I’ll admit I made mistakes, but that doesn’t change the fact they are stealing kids,” Hayward said in an interview Thursday, referring to Children and Youth.  Read more here.

Is Parham v. J.R., 442 US 584, 602-606 (1979) being ignored? 

Excerpts from this decision:

"Our jurisprudence historically has reflected Western civilization concepts of the family as a unit with broad parental authority over minor children. Our cases have consistently followed that course; our constitutional system long ago rejected any notion that a child is “the mere creature of the State”

"Therefore, it is clear that the Court is recognizing parents as having the right to make judgments concerning their children who are not able to make sound decisions, including their need for medical care. A parent’s authority to decide what is best for the child in the areas of medical treatment cannot be diminished simply because a child disagrees. A parent’s right must be protected and not simply transferred to some state agency. " more here.