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And the moment the government can "allow" a parent to exercise his or her responsibility, it has already placed itself between and above the parents in a decision the parents alone have the right to make.

Governments aren't there to allow or not allow. Let me give you a refresher as to what America is about:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

In America, governments exist to secure the rights of the people, not to tell the people which of those rights they may be allowed to exercise at the government's discretion.