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Think about it. Out of all the world regimes over the past century, which ones do you think would be most opposed to homeschooling? Nazi Germany, communist Russia, and nations enforcing Islamic Sharia Law first come to mind. And what is the common tie to all of these? Control. Unfortunately, with socialist agendas sweeping the globe, the mindless conformity of youth through indoctrination at government-run schools to the government’s point of view on social, political, and moral issues is a top priority of many nations falsely aspiring for a global community of “tolerance.”

But today, the suppression of parental rights to teach and influence their own children isn’t restricted to overtly fascist regimes. Take a look at Sweden, home of Ikea and Volvos. A couple months ago in June, attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund and the Home School Legal Defense Association filed Johansson v. Sweden with the European Court of Human Rights so that that the Swedish government will return a seven-year-old homeschooled boy to his parents. Dominic Johansson was forcibly seized by Swedish authorities from his parents in June 2009 after they had boarded a plane in their move to India. The reason? He was homeschooled. No warrant was issued before taking him into state custody, and the family was charged with no crime. Young Dominic was abducted because officials deemed home instruction to be an unsuitable method of raising a child, insisting that the government knows better about how to rear children.

Dominic is now in foster care and attends a government school. Heartbreakingly, his parents are only allowed to see their son for one hour every five weeks. To “justify” their action, Swedish authorities cited the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and quite shockingly, the White House and some members of Congress have expressed interest in ratifying this authoritarian treaty so that this type of government control could be exercised on our shores.

Despite the proliferating homeschooling movement in the U.S., with between two and four million children now being taught from home, the education and judicial systems have had a hard time leaving the influence of youth to their parents. Case in point: In the Matter of Kurowski and Kurowski, a legal matter that demonstrates how the courts have leaned toward state influence over parental influence when it comes to the education of children. Following a divorce, the father of 10-year-old homeschooled Amanda Kurowski had second thoughts about his former wife homeschooling their daughter, even though she performed well both socially and academically. The father contended that his daughter’s strong Christian beliefs needed to be sifted and challenged in a public school setting, and the lower court agreed in July 2009, issuing an order for her to enroll in a government-run school and discontinue homeschooling.

Now, of course, sometimes divorced parents do not agree on details of how to raise their child. Courts may rightly be called to resolve such disputes. But a judge must exercise the right standards when called upon to break a deadlock. When a dispute between these parents arose over homeschooling, the court looked past traditional arguments and made the chilling observation that Amanda’s “vigorous defense of her religious beliefs to [her] counselor suggests strongly that she has not had the opportunity to seriously consider any other point of view.” In other words, the court was attempting to say that it knows better than a parent when a child is getting too much religious teaching. Such reasoning goes to show that, even in the U.S., it has become a main priority of public schools to challenge and convert students’ thinking to reflect that of the state, rather than those espoused at home.

Read more at Advancing Religious Liberty

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The Shocking Origins of Public Education

Threat to Parents’ Rights a Bigger Issue than Rights of a Child

I’m proud to join the ranks of homeschooling parents this fall, as I begin teaching Kindergarten with my oldest, 5-year-old Eva.  It’s going to be an adventure, having a preschooler and one-year-old in the mix, but completely worth it!

This fall, as moms and dads around the country are getting backpacks stuffed with pencils and notebooks and scissors and glue, ready for their children to take to school, a rapidly increasing number of families are sending their children … nowhere.

Instead, more and more parents are opting to educate their children at home. In fact, statistics show the number of homeschooled students in the U.S. has nearly doubled over the past 10 years, making learning at home the fastest growing form of education in country.

“Homeschooling grew from 1.7 percent of the school age population in 1999 to 2.9 percent in 2007, a 74 percent relative increase over 8 years,” states Dr. Brian D. Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute.

And according to a NHERI fact sheet, those percentages have continued to climb. NHERI estimates the homeschooling movement has been growing at 5-12 percent per annum over the past several years, a quicker clip than private schools are growing, while public schools are seeing their percentages decline.

The total number of students now forgoing school buses for learning at home is best estimated in the neighborhood of 1.9 million – 2.5 million children.

“The increasing popularity of homeschooling should not come as a surprise,” claims a statement from The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, a popular periodical for home educators. “Parent-led, home-based education is now bordering on ‘mainstream’ in the United States.”

Read more at World Net Daily

Forced Participation: Public Education’s Fatal Flaw

Homeschooling: Socialization not a problem

In April, 2002, Minnesota parents concerned about curriculum content in a freshman class at Big Lake High School were invited to sit in on the class and see the content for themselves. That is, until principal Darrel Easterly found out. Suddenly, the morning of their scheduled visits, several moms learned that they had been banned from the school due to “privacy laws.” Mary Stultz, one of the moms, was stunned. “I was in total shock and spent the morning talking to a lawyer,” Stultz told writer Laura Adelmann at the time.

Another mom called Big Lake Superintendent Bob Lageson, who assured her it “should never happen again.” Yet, within weeks, the local school board was meeting to discuss adopting a policy requiring parents to make an appointment three days in advance of a visit, and granting to the principal wide discretion to prevent parents from entering the building even then.

After an unprecedented public outcry, the school board softened the three day requirement for parents of students to merely “as much advance notice as possible” – but they passed the new restriction. They even granted to the principal authority to detain unauthorized visitors until law enforcement arrives, citing criminal trespass laws.

Today, the current student handbook (pp.7-8) declares that “Big Lake High School does not allow students to bring guests or visitors to classes,” which includes parents. Even more importantly, the events that unfolded in Big Lake have played out numerous other times as well, throughout the country. And the courts have consistently upheld such decisions.

The proposed Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution can halt the erosion of parental rights nation-wide, and restore to parents the right to visit their child and see what is being taught. This will not allow individual parents to shape curriculum for an entire school, but it will allow any parent to remain informed of classroom content, and hopefully to opt their child out of material they find offensive.

Please act to protect the right of concerned parents to monitor their child’s education. Sign the petition and get more information at ParentalRights.org.

Parents of 50 Million U.S. Children Soon to Lose Parental Rights

An Action Alert from ParentalRights.org:

If your children attend public school, you are among those parents whose rights will end the moment your child enters the school. That’s because in 2005 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found in Fields v. Palmdale School District “that the Meyer-Pierce right [of parents to direct the upbringing of their children] does not exist beyond the threshold of the school door.”

You read that right. Parental Rights “[do] not exist beyond the threshold of the school door.”

“We conclude that the parents are possessed of no constitutional right to prevent the public schools from providing information on the subject [of sexuality] to their students in any forum or manner they select” (emphasis added).

Of course, most parents contend they don’t have a choice in where their children are schooled. Either economic constraints or personal circumstances leave them with no practical alternative to the local public school. And that leaves no parental rights at all.

Please act to reverse this assault by big government courts against parental rights. Sign the petition and get more information at ParentalRights.org.

Then, please pass this on. Every parent of a public school student needs to know the extent to which the courts have robbed them of their rights. Add this message to your Facebook account, or it on virtually any other social network.

Looking Ahead

This is the first of several court cases we plan to review for you in the coming weeks. The courts’ disregard for the traditional formative role of parents in a child’s life needs to be brought to light. And while the Parental Rights Amendment will not give parents any greater power to control the school’s choice of curriculum, it will protect their right to pull their individual child out of any program of an outrageous or offensive nature, like the program in the Palmdale case. (To read more from this case, click here.)

Sincerely,

Michael Ramey
Communications Director

School condom distribution program includes first graders, denies parental notification

Threat to Parents’ Rights a Bigger Issue than Rights of a Child

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Concerned Women for America has confirmed that Math Counts, a national math competition for teams and individual students in grades 6-8, will not allow homeschoolers to form teams and compete in the 2010-2011 school year. The Math Counts board unanimously decided to exclude homeschoolers in response to a few situations in which “super teams” were formed by pulling certain gifted students from public schools and labeling them as homeschool teams.

Math Counts has provided unique opportunities for gifted students to compete and to shine. The program is comparable to the National Spelling Bee. Winners on a national level are rewarded and meet the president at the White House.

These examples of cheating obviously mar the competition, but homeschoolers as a whole should not be completely wiped from the competition.

Penny Nance, CEO for Concerned Women for America, said, “It appears that the objectionable behavior was committed mostly, if not wholly, by non-homeschool kids, yet the Math Counts board chose to punish homeschoolers. Homeschoolers have excelled in the competition. Is this another example of punishing those who excel so that others can feel good about themselves? These students should not be punished for the misdeeds of a few cheaters. Homeschoolers may still be permitted to compete as individuals, but the reality is that far fewer students will be able to participate if homeschool teams are banned from involvement.”

Read more at Canada Free Press

‎”If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

Leftists at Think Progress are getting themselves into a tizzy over this clip of Glenn Beck exposing a Center For American Progress report that calls for the elimination of several education programs which teach history, civics, economics, and the constitution:

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The Liberty Tree Lantern illustrates how the proof is in the details:

The Special Interest Group with very high influence at the top levels of  the U.S. Government called the Center for American Progress, funded by George Soros, has developed and submitted a document called “Education Transformation – Doing What Works”.

Page 13 of the report is titled “Programs Recommended for Elimination” Amongst others the following are some of the programs that this special interest group is calling for the U.S. Government to eliminate from our children’s education.  The following comes from the report:

Small niche programs: There are numerous small education programs that are limited in scope and people served. Often these programs represent sole-source grants or congressional earmarks, which should be limited. It was beyond the purview of this report to determine whether recipients meet the requirements of sole source grantees, which requires that they be unique among other potential grantees and possess capacity for innovation and cost-effectiveness. But the question is whether these arrangements work, are superior to other options, and represent the highest value for the public investment. Based on these concerns, the following programs should be eliminated:

•  Academies for American History and Civics, authorized under the American History and Civics Education Act of 2004, provides workshops for both veteran and new teachers of American history and operates Congressional Academies to instruct high school students. This is a small program with no supporting evaluation or performance reports. The teacher workshops are not coordinated with ESEA Title II professional development programs, which support increases in the number of highly qualified teachers and principals, or based on the needs of states and localities and those of teachers and students.
•  We the People, authorized under ESEA, Title II, Part C, Subpart 3, Sections 2341- 2346, is a noncompetitive, direct earmark grant to the Center for Civic Education to operate an instructional program for elementary, middle, and high school students on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, called “We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution.” The program has had a positive evaluation.10 Yet the Center for Civic Education’s curricula and materials serve a small number of students annually. The Obama administration proposed elimination of the program in the FY 2010 budget because it is too small to have an impact on history and civics achievement nationally.
• Excellence in Economic Education, authorized under ESEA Title V, Part D, Subpart 13, is a small grant to a national nonprofit education organization that is meant to promote economic and financial literacy among students in kindergarten through grade 12. The FY 2010 appropriation was $1,447,000.  
• Teaching American History, authorized under ESEA Title II, Part C, Subpart 4, provides grants to local education agencies to improve teachers’ knowledge of traditional U.S. history. A 2005 evaluation found that grants funded projects in districts with high-need students, and participants reported positively on the effectiveness and quality of projects. But the evaluation also concluded that the projects may not have reached teachers typically considered most in need of additional professional development. The evaluation also found that the training provided did not always match research-based definitions of effective professional development, and that internal evaluations lacked the rigor to measure projects’ effectiveness accurately.11 The FY 2010 appropriation was $118.95 million. This program is subject-specific with limited reach and lacks demonstrated effectiveness. It should be eliminated.

Okay, so now America is not going to teach our children American History, Civics, U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, and Economics and financial literacy.  Does anybody else have a problem with this?

The Shocking Origins of Public Education

The Fourth Purpose: The Enigma of Public Schools

The Cartel: Education + Politics = $

“In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions of intellectual and character education fade from their minds and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk.  The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in an perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.”  – Mission Statement, John D. Rockefeller’s General Education Board, 1906

The Daily Caller reports:

If Education Secretary Arne Duncan has his way, kids would be spending a lot more time at school — and a three-month summer would be a thing of the past.

Duncan joked with attendees at a luncheon at the National Press Club Tuesday in Washington that he would like schools to stay open 13 months out of the year. Then he told the audience of over 100 that he seriously supports longer school hours.

“In all seriousness, I think schools should be open 12, 13, 14 hours a day, seven days a week, 11-12 months of the year,” Duncan said. “This is not just more of the same. There would be a whole variety of after-school programs. Obviously academics would be at the heart of that. But you top it off with dancing, art, drama, music, yearbook, robotics, activities for older siblings and parents, ESL classes.”

You have to ask yourself why? And the answer is so ridiculous that once you see through the smokescreen you see that this is about control of your children. They don’t trust you to raise your children. They know better.

So why does Mr. Duncan think we need longer school days and years?

Daily Caller reports:

“As you guys know, our world has changed, our economy has changed,” said Duncan. “The days of telling kids to go home at 2:30 and having mom there with a peanut butter sandwich, those days are gone. Whether it’s a single parent working one, two, three jobs or two parents working, the hours from 3 o’clock to 7 o’clock are a huge anxiety, and that’s why we have to keep our schools open longer.”

So let me get this straight. Many parents can’t be home with children when they come home at 2:30 and that’s bad so instead of giving parents tax breaks or incentives to stay home with their children they decide to spend more taxpayer money to keep schools open 12 months a year and 12 hours a day making it harder for parents to be able to afford to stay home because they have to pay for all these programs.
The question must be asked whether parents staying home with children is a societal good. And if so shouldn’t the federal government be doing more to encourage it, rather than making it harder.

But when they say more time at school, they actually mean less time with family.  This is their end game. Remember “It Takes a Village.”  Well, the village looks an awful lot like the federal government. And a lot less like Mom with a peanut butter sandwich.

Read more at Creative Minority Report

H/T Barbara Curtis at MommyLife.net

The Shocking Origins of Public Education

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Most states spend an average of $10K per student per year on public education, and this is what we get…

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One of those ladies is a college instructor, for crying out loud!  She’s got a college degree, teaches at the university level, and STILL doesn’t know what SHOULD be common knowledge. How scary is that??   And just in case you’d rather blow it off as a carefully edited Jay Leno segment to make the man on the street look more humorously ignorant than they are, check out this clip from an independent filmmaker:

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Seriously, NOBODY can correct his mistakes?  This was filmed at Tamarack in North County San Diego.  I used to walk the boardwalk with my oldest in her stroller, right where he’s standing!  Wish I’d been there when he filmed this. Would’ve given him a history lesson!

What cracks me up is when I hear parents say they don’t want to homeschool because “I don’t know anything.” So, you spent 12 years in a system that did such a great job that you can’t remember a darn thing, but you want to send your kids through the same system because they’re somehow more “qualified”? If they’re such experts and the system is so effective, why do average “educated” Americans know so much less than 6th grade drop-outs from 100 years ago?  Buy yourself a curriculum and I guarantee you’ll do a better job just by giving your kid the one-on-one attention, even if you’re learning some of this stuff right alongside them! 

The key to a real education is knowing how to educate yourself and not wait for any person or school to spoon-feed it to you.

The Cartel: Education + Politics = $

The Shocking Origins of Public Education

“Do we really need school? I don’t mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don’t hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest.”  -  John Taylor Gatto

The high school redesign exercise in Portland serves as a reminder of why top-down solutions are often doomed to fail. How could anyone except those at the top propose closing a popular and successful school like Benson Polytechnic? And how could anyone force families back inside the stifling brick walls of an unpopular and unsuccessful high school like Jefferson?

Fortunately, two individuals have recently come forward with surprisingly out-of-the-box statements that could open the door to some truly constructive solutions, at least for the students.The Oregonian’s David Sarasohn penned a column earlier this month that cut through the obfuscation and identified the key element of the redesign plan: force. He rightly explained that those in charge of the Portland school system are attempting to fix the problems of a school like Jefferson simply by forcing those who live near it to send their kids into this perennially failing school. The plan would allow few transfers for desperate parents seeking a better education for their children.

Sarasohn then states what he apparently sees as powerful truth:

“This is, after all, America, and you can’t force families to send their children to any school.”

Of course, parents with means can’t be forced, because they can afford private education or they can pick up and move close to a better public school. But you can force kids without means into the failing brick buildings near their homes. You shouldn’t, but you can.

Dr. Husk said the current ESD system is based on “forced participation.” She used this analogy to make her point:

“Imagine walking into a grocery store where you would prefer not to shop because they don’t really sell what you want. But when you enter the store you find that your food budget has already been given directly to the store. So you put certain things in your cart, whether you want them or not. You don’t find out what they’re going to cost until you’re almost at the checkout line or all the way through. When you go through the checkout line they keep 10% of the food budget right off of the top. And the rest of the food budget comes to you in change provided that you can prove that you’re going to spend it wisely.

“Forced participation in the ESD puts the onus on the school district to prove that they can provide services. We believe that the onus should be on the ESD to prove that they provide good services at reasonable costs….

“Rather than forced participation, I believe we should be able to opt in or out….”

She clearly wants choice of service providers for her district, but what about choice of education providers for the kids?

Read more at the Oregon Catalyst

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If you’re a parent, you’re probably too busy doing the day-to-day work of raising your children to worry about an international treaty that could actually undermine your authority over them.

But if you’ve ever insisted that your teenager drag himself out of bed on a Sunday morning to attend church with the family, or required him to find a part-time job to pay for the increase in your car insurance, or – heaven forbid – if you’ve ever spanked a young child for an act of willful disobedience, there are folks who’d like to override your parental judgment.

Folks like President Obama, in fact.

The issue of parental rights is at the heart of the ongoing debate over the US’s failure to ratify the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

Up to now, it’s been a worried American homeschool community that most vocally opposes the CRC. That’s because the treaty clearly places responsibility for the education of children in the hands of the federal government. Such a mandate would certainly threaten the freedom of states to allow, and of parents to choose, homeschooling as an option to educate their children.

But it’s not just homeschooling parents who ought to be nervous about the CRC. We all should because the language of the treaty – which would supersede all American law other than the Constitution – radically changes the authority structure between parents, children and the state.

Read more at Townhall.com

Parental Rights in Danger

Who will raise kids: Mom, Dad or state?

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A 7-year-old boy is forcibly removed from his parents because of their choice to home school and not completely vaccinate their children.  Think this could never happen to American families?  If we ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) like Europe has, it’s only a matter of time.  Protect your parental rights by supporting the Parental Rights Amendment.

A plea has been sent worldwide for moms, dads, brothers, aunts and grandparents – in fact anyone – to contact Swedish authorities and ask them to return to his parents a 7-year-old boy taken into police custody over a dispute that includes the family’s decision to homeschool.

Annie and Dominic Johansson As WND reported last June, Swedish police barged into a passenger jet awaiting departure from Sweden to India and forcibly took into custody Dominic Johansson, 7.

The Home School Legal Defense Association and members of the Alliance Defense Fund have been advising Christer and Annie Johansson on the “state-napping” of their son as they were preparing to move to India, Annie’s home country.

Now a report from HSLDA says the “Swedish Social Services Committee” is scheduled to meet April 23 about the case, and interested parties are being asked to express their wish directly to Sweden’s administration.

“Sadly, there has been no other change in the status of 7-year-old Dominic Johansson, forcibly separated from his parents, Christer and Annie, more than 10 months ago. Dominic continues to be held in state custody in a foster home. His parents are allowed monitored visits with him only once [for an hour] every five weeks. The situation remains one of intense difficulty for the family,” HSLDA said today.

The HSLDA documented that the child was removed “without a warrant or reasonable cause to believe that he was being harmed.

“Their reasoning? Dominic was being homeschooled, which is permitted by Swedish law, and his parents had also legally opted out of giving him standard vaccinations,” the group said.

Further, in December, “after being kept in state custody for several months with minimal visitation from his parents, a Swedish court upheld this decision.”

When the court ruling was announced, Michael Donnelly, director of international affairs for the HSLDA, called the court decision “deeply disturbing.”

“The hostility against homeschooling and for parent’s rights is contrary to everything expected from a Western nation,” he said.

Read more at World Net Daily

DNA sampling, Health Care, Public schools, Homeschoolers, Student Loans, the Olympics, Unions, the Internet….is there ANY area that Obama doesn’t want to have TOTAL FEDERAL CONTROL over??

Former 60′s radical and author Barbara Curtis has some insightful observations regarding Obama’s plethora of power grabs:

Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest

Then there was the exposure of secret memos concerning an Obama land grab of 10 million acres from Montana to New Mexico – and Jim DeMint’s attempt to block it.  Other presidents guilty of land grabs are Carter and Clinton.  Notice a pattern?  And who are the fascists in this country, really?

More insidious: As we are focused on trying to block government takeover of healthcare, Obama has set in motion a potential federal takeover of education.  Will the citizenry connect the dots and understand that shifting decisioin making and guidelines from the local and state level to federal represents a huge threat to our future generations?  I”s all about control  and leftist propaganda through the school system.

Spunky analyzes the ramifications for homeschoolers at The Obama Takeover of Education,

With so much going on, were you aware that Obama plans to take over U.S. student loans? And doesn’t it make perfect sense to tack it on the health care bill so both can pass at once.  Would anyone notice or care what this means? 

Things just keep getting curiouser and curiouser: Obama appears to be jockeying for power with the Olympics, establishing the first ever White House Office of Olympics, Paralympics and Youth Sports .  Why?  When something is working well, why should the US spend tax payer dollars trying to get control?

And even his friends – the unions – are not exempt from the roving eye or Sauron Obama:  
Union Surprised by Obama Power Grab – but we’re not.

And there’s this phenomenon of a story surfacing  – like last fall’s Bill will give president emergency control of the Internet – than disappearing.  Just found this update:  Latest Developments in the Fight to Stop a Government Internet Takeover

The propagandizing of American youth continues…and the blatant manipulation of public school students continues.

While we are supposed to feel sorry for our poor El Presidente for having to postpone his trip to Indonesia, do keep in mind two things:

While this is undoubtedly being paid for as a political trip, it was timed to correspond to two First Girls’ spring break, and Obama himself said he wanted to show his daughters the land he grew up in as a little boy (and where he attended an Islamic school).

While Indonesians erected a statue of Obama when he rose to the White house, they have lately been considering removing it in response to demands from a large segment of resentful Indonesians. If the statue is still standing, Obama plans to lay a wreath at his own bronze feet, which would certainly be an unprecedented (White House favorite word) gesture of self-love and  iconic photo op.  But alas, the Indonesians are just not keen on Obama anymore, even interrupting their ongoing rioting to protest the Boy Wonder’s visit.

Read more at Mommy Life

Oregon is #38, California is #46. Another good reason to homeschool!

I’d be very interested to see what they consider “well educated”. I can guarantee that Massachusetts doesn’t consider any child “well educated” who isn’t well versed in “Tolerance”, “Green Living” and other Leftist priorities.

StateMaster has compiled the following education statistics:

“This fourth Smartest State designation is awarded based on 21 factors chosen from Morgan Quitno’s annual reference book, Education State Rankings, 2005-2006. Featuring four new factors, this year’s award de-emphasizes spending for public schools and instead measures states based on student achievement, positive outcomes and personal attention from teachers.”

Click here to see the chart and where your state ranks.

It’s all supposed to be voluntary, those “home visits” that are tucked into the mammoth Obamacare bill. If you have a strong stomach, and a stronger bottom, you can find home visitation on pages 568-595. That’s Section 2951 of H.R. 3590, the Senate bill that Harry Reid brought down the chimney on Christmas Eve.

All voluntary, they say, but once you “volunteer” to have the oh-so-helpful folks from Social Services come in to help with your newborns, or with a number of other specified issues, will you ever be able to get rid of them?

The bill provides for federal funding and supervision for this vast expansion of government intrusion into family life. This is the Nanny State on steroids.

Do you spank your children? You should know that HHS bureaucrats think you are an abuser.

Do you support the Second Amendment? How would you like HHS bureaucrats asking your children if you maintain firearms in the home for family protection?

Do you home-school your kids? Take care. Members of Congress who have tried to abolish home-schooling are big backers of this health care bill. Do you wonder why?

Is your family being “targeted” for such home visitations? Let’s see if you fit into one of these very broad categories…

Read more at American Thinker