Constitutional amendment protecting parental rights urged and needed.

The president of the world's premier homeschool advocacy organization is renewing a call for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to protect the rights of parents. Without such a plan, the state, not parents, could in the future decide what children read, who they associate with, what discipline is used or whether they attend church. The danger he cites comes from the potential ratification by the United States of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. -It is important to the future of this land that parents, not the state, retain the right to raise their children as the parents deem fit. Hillary Clinton, if she becomes president, believes it takes a village in the form of the state to raise a child. This, we do not want or need. Who knows better how to raise your child? The state, or you?

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