children eroding parental rights in usa

The Child Rights Convention is the only UN human rights treaty with almost universal ratification – save the USA and Somalia. As the AP reports, representatives in the US House are staging opposition to the possibility of ratification, citing the potential “erosion” of parental rights.

“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”; and “Children would have the ability to choose their own religion while parents would only have the authority to give their children advice about religion,” Representative Hoekstra is said to fear.