Family Rights and Child Abuse News

White House Rules by Fiat with No Child Left Behind Waivers

by Mike Brownfield

The Obama Administration is circumventing Congress by granting states conditional waivers from the onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind.

It's a story we've heard before. Where President Obama can't legislate, he will use executive branch action to accomplish his agenda. In the past, he has applied that tactic in the auto bailout, EPA regulations, and Obamacare. Now he's using this approach to remake No Child Left Behind (NCLB)-the most significant K-12 education law-by granting states conditional waivers from the onerous provisions of NCLB in exchange for adopting a yet-to-be-specified set of executive branch education policy priorities.

blog.heritage.org

August 9, 2011

Whitehall father charged after child flees home in diaper

A Whitehall man was arrested Wednesday afternoon after his 2-year-old son got out of their home and crossed a busy street to get to a playground wearing just a diaper, police said.

The father, Timothy W. Crawford Sr., 29, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor. Police said the child, who Crawford was supposed to be watching, was found unattended on the William Street playground around 1 p.m.

poststar.com

June 21, 2012

WHO Charged with Pushing Vaccines that Harm Children

In a hard hitting editorial, the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME) has accused the WHO of promoting Pentavalent vaccine "by stating falsely that no adverse event following immunization (AEFI) has ever been reported with the vaccine."

The journal says this is contrary to facts. The IJME editorial by Dr. Jacob Puliyel, head of pediatrics at St Stephens Hospital in New Delhi, is based on his detailed investigation into the deaths of children in Bhutan, Sri Lanka, India and Vietnam following use of Pentavalent vaccine. This vaccine combines the Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus or DPT vaccine - long used in national immunization programs - with Hepatitis-B and H influenza-b or Hib vaccine.

omsj.org

August 18, 2013

Who Killed Hostess?

by Scott Shackford

Hostess Brands cited its enormous pension debts and labor costs for its bankruptcy and stated the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union's refusal to negotiate reductions as culprit.

Management promised to turn around the company's fortunes through innovation and workplace efficiency. It tried a limited-edition return of original banana-cream Twinkies and published The Twinkies Cookbook, which included such half-baked epicurean delights as Twinkie Sushi and Pigs in a Twinkie. But ancient delivery trucks and plant equipment didn't get replaced. The company's pricing often didn't keep pace with that of competitors. And Hostess still had ludicrous work rules.

reason.com

November 19, 2012

Who Owns Your Child? - Part 2

by Sherri Tenpenny

Parent Rights and the Foundation for Medical Neglect - When it comes to making decisions about their children, parents have few rights, as demonstrated by the Abraham Cherrix case and others.

The concept of the State control of children came from antiquity when Plato first suggested the mechanism for a state-provided public education. He advocated removing children from their parents' care and raising them as wards of the State. It is interesting that in 1918, at the congress of the Communist Party education workers in Russia it was asserted, "We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families."

News With Views

July 25, 2006