States Increasingly Police Family 'Thoughtcrimes'

Patriot Post ^ | March 6, 2019 | Jordan Candler

[gattaca]

As homeschooling rapidly grows, so too are state-level efforts to "oversee" families.

Oregon, Washington state, and even Iowa are trailblazing another assault on constitutionally protected individual rights. The state legislature in Oregon is currently mulling over a bill that “directs Oregon Health Authority to study home visiting by licensed health care providers.” The bill contends that home visits are “necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety.”

There’s a similar scheme being conjured up in Washington. In January, Gov. Jay Inslee (now a 2020 Democrat presidential contender) declared: “My budget would also offer universal home visits. This gives every new parent the opportunity to get a visit from a nurse during the first few weeks back home with their newborn to share important information and build confidence.”

“Iowa Democrats are also attempting to gain oversight of families, specifically those of homeschoolers,” The Resurgent’s James Silberman reports. “IA HF272 would mandate quarterly ‘health and safety visits’ to homeschool families by school district officials. The bill states that these visits would be with the consent of the parents but also specifies that parents can be overridden if a judge determines there is probable cause for home inspection.”

PJ Media columnist Paula Bolyard astutely observes, “As someone who has been involved in the homeschooling movement for more than 20 years, I have seen many attempts to increase the oversight of children taught at home by requiring home visits by a teacher or social worker. … Anytime a state or locality has tried to draft legislation requiring home visits for homeschooled children, the immediate response has always been, ‘What are they going to do next, require inspections for children from birth until they enter school?’ The answer to that, of course, is yes. That has been the plan all along.”

This is statism, pure and simple. The Daily Signal this week relayed the story of a parent who said, “I was shocked when my 13-year-old daughter told me she was really my transgender son.” The parent added, “Where did she get the idea she was transgender? From a school presentation.”

This is precisely why more and more families are pulling their kids from public schooling and increasingly homeschooling. And while their reasons for doing so are more than justified, statists are ensuring that no age and no home is off limits when it comes to regulating thoughtcrimes.

[Libloather]

"...if a judge determines there is probable cause for home inspection.”

...because taxpayers can do the exact thing to schools, yes?

[antidemoncrat]

I would get on the internet and look for groups that think like you, like FR, join them in trying to generate a grass roots movement to get the liberals out of office by backing conservatives. I know how difficult it is because most of the folks in your state are probably Democrats or they would not continue voting liberals into office that continue their inane policies like sanctuary cities and states. Wish I could be more help.

[tbw2]

Liberal bullies are demanding the same thing if parents don’t go in 100% with LBGT insanity.

Pelosi’s Equality Act Could Lead to More Parents Losing Custody of Kids Who Want “Gender Transition”
https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/commentary/pelosis-equality-act-could-lead-more-parents-losing-custody-kids-who

[ronnie raygun]

With everything that is going, we are the ones in a cauldron over a low heat being cooked, will we realize this before its to late

[Pining_4_TX]

So-called hate crimes are a big part of this. It’s now not what one does, but what one was thinking while doing it.

This is also why the uniparty wants universal government supplied daycare and preschool. They want the kiddies taken out of the home and indoctrinated from infancy. Increasing taxes and regulations and providing more “free” stuff forces more people to have both parents working and turning their children over to be raised by others. This is a win-win for politicians, because it brings in more tax revenue and gives the children over to the government’s methods of education until adulthood and even beyond that in college.