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The State as
Parent
State Intrusion into the
Sanctity and Privacy of the Family
"We must remove
the children from the crude influence of their families.
We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them"
"[T]he most vulnerable children in our society ... are in our care; we, the state, are their parents"
"The first thing
that a totalitarian regime tries to do is to get at the children,
to distance them from the subversive, varied influences of their families,
and indoctrinate them in their rulers' view of the world"
"Above all things, the child needs protecting from the state"
Articles on the Following Topics:
The Collective: 'It Takes A Village' | Social Services and Family Courts | Scotland's 'Named Persons' Scheme
Specific Cases of Child Abuse/Stealing by the State | Institutionalised Child Abuse | Jephthah's Children
State Schools and Teachers | What To Do If Your Child is Targeted By Social Workers | Petitions
Information, Support Groups, Websites, and Further Help | Withdraw Thy Foot...
State as Parent: Quotations and Comments | State as Parent: Some Scriptures
See Also:
Political Correctness | Education | Common Purpose
"And he that stealeth [a child], and selleth him..."
(Exodus 21:16)
"The words of a talebearer
are as wounds,
and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly"
(Proverbs 18:8)
"Every fool will be meddling ... Withdraw thy foot
from thy neighbour's house:
lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee"
(Proverbs 20:3b; 25:17)
"Seest
thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope
of a fool than of him"
(Proverbs 26:12)
"Woe unto them that decree unrighteous
decrees,
and that write grievousness which they have prescribed"
(Isaiah 10:1-3)
"Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds!
when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the
power of their hand. ...
So they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage"
(Micah 2:1-2)
"It
is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through
whom they come!
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck,
and he cast into the sea,
than that he should offend one of these little ones"
(Luke 17:1-2)
"Let none of you suffer ... as a busybody in other
men's matters"
(1 Peter 4:15)
"Never,
anywhere in the Holy Bible will you find God giving civil government
any
authority to rear or direct the rearing of children ...
God told parents, not the government, to 'train up' their children."
(Laura Rogers, Societal Structures vs. Restructuring, as quoted in Berit
Kjos, Brave New Schools, p185)
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