US signing the Convention on the Rights of the Child - not possible

March 29, 2011 - PRLog -- Too long a way before the United States can ratify the UN conventions of the rights of a child.

Here in the United States we have been criticized because we have not ratified the conventions mentioned above. Beside Somalia only the united States have not signed it.

But there is a valid reason for it.

What do you put in the place if you don’t acknowledge the parental rights in every family?

If we take a look on a country like Denmark, it is very simple:

The State will take over and the family units will cease to exist.

In Denmark there is no protection for the family unit, only so-called protection for the child. Based on simple slander at the local supermarket social workers can create their fiction about the circumstances surrounding a family. Once the social worker has decided what family to remove the child from, they don’t have to turn to the courts at first. They just need a rubber stamp from a sub-committee under the city council. Here half of the members are professionals from the department itself. One member is a judge and often two members are politicians with no idea about what is going on but they are placed in the sub-committees so they can earn a kind of salary.

To believe that such a sub-committee could overrule one of their colleagues is totally out of question. They parents can appeal but once again it is to another sub-committee. Only then the parents can go to the courts. Most families give up due to the costs and many families are shattered due to the dysfunctional foster care system where complaints about violence on behalf of the foster care families are known to be ignored. In one of the cases there have been complaints for 12 years or more, which all were ignored while the children in the foster care system continued to suffer.

The group homes are not that better. There have been numerous cases where use of restraints against the children is not reported as they should according to the Danish laws. Some of the special boarding schools named “Efterskoler” in Danish for at-risk teenagers are run by a cult named Tvind.

While it is known that Tvind is a cult the politicians often claim that they don’t know that they use Tvind do warehouse teenagers who never should have been removed from their families.

Denmark removes a lot of children from their families. Often they are not at-risk children. They are normal children who are suffering from various traumas in their young lives they have no responsibility for. Denmark has many adults who are adults for some unknown reason. There are many children who are removed because it is believed by some of the social workers that depression is contagious, so the child needs protection from the disgraceful illness and would be better off in a group home. Crazy? Yes, but that is one of the costs of putting aside the parental right we have in the United States.

Another cost is a major blow to our economy. Even Danish politicians have realized that and they are discussing to pull Denmark out of the convention due to some refugee matter. If a welfare country like Denmark cannot afford to upheld the convention, how can the United States do that?