Someone wondered a while back where are the children's rights. Well, in the USA we believe that parent's rights come before children's rights. We are the ONLY country in the UN who has not ratified the CRC, the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
" the United States played a critical role in drafting the CRC but never ratified it because of unfounded fear-mongering from politicians and activists who argued that it would undermine parents’ rights and “give our children unrestricted access to abortion, *advertiser censored*, gangs and the occult.”
U.S. Stands Alone: Not Signing U.N. Child Rights Treaty Leaves Migrant Children Vulnerable | HuffPost
An earlier article from the Washington Post quotes this group as helping to keep the treaty from being ratified
"Michael P. Farris, is a constitutional lawyer and president of ParentalRights.org, an organization that has been actively campaigning against U.S. ratification of “dangerous U.N conventions that “threaten parental rights” such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child. “The chief threat posed by the CRC is the denial of American self-government in accord with our constitutional processes,” said Farris"
"Farris says that the “United States demonstrates its commitment to human rights whenever it follows and enforces the Constitution of the United States, which is the greatest human rights instrument in all history.”
The currently all male-staff (Farris says the group has never focused on maternal leave as an issue) of ParentalRights.org..."
Why won’t the U.S. ratify the U.N.’s child rights treaty?
We, the USA, believe children are property. Until we as a nation decide children are independent human beings who's rights are not dependent upon the whims of their parents, we will continue to see these tragedies over and over again. Our government doesn't waste money on people who have no rights of their own. = underfunded, understaffed, overworked, child protective services. = lack of mental health support. = lack of addiction treatment. = and on and on and on.