The federal government is seeking to create a new bureaucracy that would intervene in family life and could even see state-appointed monitors conduct routine home visits to assess a childâs well-being.
The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published adraft documentwhich outlines a plan that will treat families as âequal partnersâ in the raising of children, opening the door for government intrusion at all levels.
The paper describes how government employees will intervene to provide, âmonitoring goals for the children at home and the classroom,â and that if parents are failing to meet the standards set, âevidence-based parenting interventionsâ will be made to, âensure that childrenâs social-emotional and behavioral needs are met.â
The document reveals how the state will help oversee, âconstant monitoring and communication regarding childrenâs social-emotional and behavioral health.â
The program bears the hallmarks of acontroversial scheme in Scotland, set to take effect later this year, under which a âshadow parentâ appointed by the government would monitor the upbringing of every child until the age of 18.
âThe document argues that Big Brother needs to know about essentially everything, for the supposed benefit of the child it wants to âpartnerâ in caring for,âwrites Alex Newman. âCiting âresearch,â the policy statement claims that âthe institutions where children learn cannot ignore family wellness if they want to ⌠fulfill their mission to prepare children for school and academic success.â In other words, every aspect of family life is now fair game under the pretext of checking âfamily wellness.â
The document also extends the understanding of the word âfamily,â to include, âall the people who play a role in the childâs life,â a definition that could include not only teachers but government monitors.
In arelated development, the federal government is pushing for a task force to oversee a program under which pediatricians and doctors would, âscreen all students over 12 years old regularly for depression and issue prescriptions or treatment as necessary.â
The program would increase the likelihood of teenagers being given dangerous antidepressant drugs such as Prozac and Lexapro.
The idea of children belonging not just to their parents but to a âcommunityâ that involves the state is a common theme of collectivist thinking.
That notion was promoted in the video below from 2013 featuring MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, in which she asserted, âWe have to break through our private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families.â
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