Mahatma Gandhi once said: “The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” If that were the only criteria of a society, the U.S. would be ranked very low. To me, vulnerable means without a voice, or helpless. One could argue that among the most vulnerable are babies in their mother’s womb. While the number of reported abortions have steadily declined, we still have far too many. In 2018, the last year statistics are available, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported about 620,000 babies were aborted. California, Maryland, and New Hampshire do not report the number of abortions performed in their states. That means the statistics underreport the actual total. Given the CDC’s track record of sloppy, and misleading, statistics during the COVID pandemic I am less than excited about using them as my source. Alas, they offer the most comprehensive data. I was surprised to learn that over 80% of abortions are performed on women between the ages of 20 and 39 years of age. That means that carelessness, not ignorance, was probably a leading cause of many of the pregnancies. We must do a better job of offering counselling to those who are contemplating an abortion. It is critical we do a better job of getting rid of the hurdles, and red tape, that make it difficult for loving couples to adopt babies. Adults should take care to use proven birth control methods. It would be nice if we were to experience a moral revival that would have people be more discerning about casual sex. As a country we simply must stop turning a blind eye to this barbaric practice.
Nowhere in the history of civilized societies will you find people who sacrificed the health and well-being of their children to protect the adult population. We are guilty of doing just that for the last 2 years. We are now entering the third year since the beginning of the COVID-19 breakout in the U.S. It arrived amid a slew of frightening predictions as to its lethal nature. Experts(?) predicted hundreds of millions of deaths worldwide, and multiple millions of deaths here. There was an immediate panic among the people. For the first 6 months or so it was understandable, even proper, that health officials erred on the side of safety. Until quality data could be collected the default position should have been to protect our children. By the fall of 2020 it was clear that our kids had the least risk of getting, or dying from, the virus. Early in 2021 the CDC, which has added a new meaning to the term house of ill repute, said the safest place for our children was in the classroom. What happened to our leaders promising to follow the science? The teacher’s unions is what happened. Most private schools, which don’t have unions, continued in school learning beginning in 2021. Our kids should have started back to school in the fall of 2020, the spring of 2021 at the latest. Here we are in the spring of 2022 and some schools are still not open for in school learning. Inexcusable! Too many kids are still asked to get their education via online learning. Disgraceful! There are schools around the world who NEVER shut down. Their student infection rates are equal to, or better than, ours. There are examples here in the U.S. of schools that reopened early, Florida comes to mind, that had no more infections than those who closed. Science my a**. Too many kids who are in school are still required to wear masks. Ridiculous! Again science simply does not support this fantasy.
We continue this lunacy even as we watch the numbers of children with depression skyrocket. Kids, especially poor kids, are falling farther behind academically. The number of children who are committing suicide, or talking about committing suicide, is alarming and unprecedented. Our government and the media have frightened a lot of Americans so thoroughly that they are unwilling, or unable, to make quality informed decisions for themselves. We may never know the depth of the harm we have visited on our precious children. One needn’t have special training to recognize the harm we have visited on them. It requires only a modicum of common sense to know the damage was self inflicted, and could have been avoided. Now we can only pray the damage is not permanent.
Children don’t have advocacy groups. They don’t have Political Action Committees. They can’t vote. If parents don’t advocate for their children, they are truly vulnerable. How can we purport to love our children while at the same time allow our schools to call them unthinkable names? Whether it is Critical Race Theory (CRT), or an alias, our children are being browbeaten by a cowardly, or misguided, education system. What would you do if your neighbor stopped your 8 year old white child on the sidewalk and called him/her a racist oppressor? How would you feel if your 8 year old black child was stopped on the sidewalk and told he/she was a hopeless victim? What if your 8 year old child brought home a pornographic book he said he got from your neighbor? I’m guessing in all three instances, if you love your child, you’d have a face to face discussion with that neighbor. Why, when these things are happening to our children in too many of our schools do we remain silent? You don’t pay your neighbors salary. But you do pay the salaries of the educator’s who are literally abusing your child(ren). Our children are injured when they are accused of things they can do absolutely nothing about. They can be harmed when pornographic books are allowed on the shelves of school libraries. Mean-spirited comments are dividing our children by race. CRT is corrosive and has permeated our schools over the last few years. If you would confront your neighbor, so too must you confront the leadership of your local school. The good news is that you may not have to go it alone. There are a number of groups all over the USA that have courageously stepped to the forefront. They are full of caring parents like yourself. They are challenging school boards, and school administrators, to put an end to this vile brainwashing. They will help you find out if your school is teaching CRT, or allowing harmful books in their libraries. They need every concerned parent to join in the effort to get rid of these malignant teachings. Please go online and search for a group near you.
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