California: "child abuse has no definition"

Stephen Baskerville at World Net Daily.com writes on the criminalisation of parents in the US.

The California appeals court decision criminalizing parents who homeschool their children is only the tip of an iceberg. Nationwide, parents are already being criminalized in huge numbers, and it is not limited to homeschoolers.

During the Clinton years, the trend toward turning children into tools for expanding government power increased rapidly. Otherwise indefensible programs and regulations are now rationalized as "for the children."

As a result, government now has so many ways to incarcerate parents that hardly a family in America has not been touched. The criminalization of parents is highly bureaucratic, effected through a bureaucratic judiciary and supported by a vast "social services" machinery that few understand until it strikes them. They then find themselves against a faceless government behemoth from which they are powerless to protect their children or defend themselves.

Homeschoolers are usually accused of "educational neglect," a form of child abuse. Like other child abuse accusations, it does not usually involve a formal charge, uniformed police, or a jury trial. Instead the accusations are leveled by social workers, whose subjective judgment is minimally restrained by due-process protections...

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Apparently the Governor of California has come out saying that he does not want to see home-education banned.  Sound familiar anyone?

Home-education, by principle must be an option for parents.  Soon in New Zealand we will be hearing from the Children's Commissioner and the Green Party, Barnadoes and Body Shop that home-education is damaging to society, children, and serves as a cover-up for brain-washing and child-abuse in the home.