Template:Termination of parental rights
Termination of parental rights
Federally funded termination of parental rights or TPR began decades ago where states receive tens of thousands of dollars every-time they terminate parental rights. Agencies could acquire millions of dollars in federal funds beyond their state budget just by terminating the rights of parents.
When did we begin to think that it was the government's role to take children and provide care for them?
“As long as we look to government to solve our problems we will always suffer tyranny." William Pitt
Child care was never the province of governments in early America. It was the province and responsibility of the people, who were the fourth branch of government in a Republic. They accomplished this through charitable institutions, free associations, and Churches.
“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” ― attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville.[1]
Even the idea that the care of widows should be within the province of government was hotly disputed by the people as expressed by congressman David Crockett back in the 1800s.
There were few orphanages in early America and they were almost all built and run by churches.
Children seldom stayed in an orphanage for even a year. They would be returned to friends or surviving families or adopted by people desiring children. Many people would be adopted in their community so children never saw an orphanage.
The care of widows and orphans had been an obligation placed upon Christians by Moses and Christ. In fact, their care is the very definition of Pure Religion.
There was almost no discussion of aid for widows and orphans coming from government taxes until 1909 which first White House Conference on Children convened by President Theodore Roosevelt.
They decided that "home life is the highest and finest product of civilization. Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons...”
Nothing much was done until 1935 when the Federal government began to take on the care of not only orphans but also widows and disabled through taxation schemes like Social Security and other welfare programs. With little objection from the Churches, the State began to take over what had once been the province of the Churches and community until the people become accustomed to the morality of the welfare state.
The New Deal of FDR and War on Poverty of LBJ were where the destructive power of government was unleashed. Few saw that the covetous practices of socialism were oozing into the American soul. Ignorant of history[2] and little real knowledge of the Bible outside of the churches who had abandoned the province of Pure Religion they had no idea that what should have been for their welfare was a snare.[3]
"That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities" Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.)
If people want their rights back they must take back their responsibilities.
For more than three decades I have seen parents have their children taken without a just cause only to have them abused in foster care. The physical and sexual abuse of children in foster care is well documented despite efforts to often cover it up. Children are drugged at 13x the rate of in the general public.
Yes, "home life is the highest and finest product of civilization. Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons..." but that is only true if the home life is provided by love and charity. Foster care has become a government-industry and while many will do a fair job a child is more likely to be abused in the government's care than the general population.
"An army of mercenary only fights for the love of money."
It is the sloth and avarice of the modern American that has allowed the child care industry to become a beast that goes around abusing, biting, and devouring families and children.
"Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now." Jefferson's statement in Notes on the State of Virginia.
We could apply Jefferson's statement about the government's prescription or our health to the care of our children. Looking to men who call themselves benefactors but exercise authority one over the other to provide us with benefits and care is a recipe to make us merchandise and curse children.
- ↑ More likely a summary of his thoughts.
- ↑ “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” Plutarch
- The Historian of Historians from Corinth. Polybius believed all democracies fail. He eventually placed his allegiance with the Roman Republic but warned that it to would fail if "The masses continue with an appetite for benefits Link titleand the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." .
- ↑ Psalms 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.