Mommies and Daddies take heed...

If the UN gets its way, you'll be a mere custodial guardian of your own children. First, the bad news...

Constitution takes hit from Supreme Court - Citing unapproved treaty is 'act of most fundamental reordering of legal system' [read it here]

"The fundamentals of the U.S. Constitution possibly have been shoved one step closer to irrelevance by the U.S. Supreme Court, which yesterday cited as support for its opinion an international treaty that has not been adopted in the U.S."

This recent case has to do with the sentencing of an criminal who was a minor at the time the crime was committed. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which the US has not ratified, prevents courts from imposing life sentences in such cases.

Try not to spend too much time considering whether this particular offender should spend the rest of his life in jail. That's not the point. Here are some other tidbits from the CRC. Try to imagine family court in this country when your local judge decides to follow this new precedent.

• Children would have the ability to choose their own religion while parents would only have the authority to give their children advice about religion.
• The best interest of the child principle would give the government the ability to override every decision made by every parent if a government worker disagreed with the parent’s decision.
• A child’s “right to be heard” would allow him (or her) to seek governmental review of every parental decision with which the child disagreed.
• Children would acquire a legally enforceable right to leisure.

These rules were written to solve problems that don't exist outside of the third world. American children are not the starving workhorses you find in impoverished countries. Our children have different problems, and these "solutions" only make matters worse for American families. While the CRC may be good for someone somewhere, it is bad for America.

But how do you fight a good cause? How can you argue with UNICEF?

Now, here's the good news... www.parentalrights.org

Remember that our constitution does not grant rights, it simply defines and protects them. And it typically only defines those rights that are under attack. The Parental Rights Amendment secures the rights of parents to direct the upbringing of their children.

The good news is that an amendment to the US Constitution outweighs a treaty agreement. There is no need for American parents to fight the CRC head-on. If it does good somewhere in the world, so be it. If the US ever does sign on, we're not bound by provisions that conflict with our Constitution.

And since I'm a states-rights kind of woman, I need to clarify that state constitutions do not outweigh treaties. This has to be done at the federal level.

Go to the website and read up. And then sign the petition.