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permanent invasion of privacy
I'll pass the article along... I'm not sure I wish to even
comment on the two social worker do-gooders who are proposing
[and have legislation introduced] something worse than Hillary's
"It take a global village" other than $E^&*&@!!!
the absolute ultimate on invasion of privacy imaginable. might
as well add this one to: "...they get my weapon, still smoking,
from my cooling hand." or maybe: "54-40 or fight"
needless to say, any member of the cypherpunk list would be an
automatic loser in this game of life. I for one believe ability
and drive is signicifantly more genetics than social environment.
-attila
==
I'll get a life when it is proven
and substantiated to be better
than what I am currently experiencing.
--attila
************** forwarded article ****************
LICENSING PARENTS REVISITED
The December 1996 edition of the journal Society contains
a symposium on the subject of "Licensing Parents" -- a
totalitarian proposal with which regular readers of The
New American may be familiar. (See "Whose Child Is This?"
in our November 28, 1994 issue and "Are You Fit to Be a
Parent? in our January 23, 1995 issue.) Included in the
symposium were Dr. Jack C. Westman of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, author of Licensing Parents: Can We
Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect? and Professor David T.
Lykken of the University of Minnesota, author of The
Antisocial Personalities. Westman and Lykken are the
most prominent advocates of a system of parental
licensure in which parents would have to be certified
"competent" by the government before being permitted to
raise a child.
In his Society essay, Lykken writes, "I will testify in
support of a parental licensure bill to be introduced
at the next session of the Minnesota State Legislature.
The only sanction proposed in this bill for unlicensed
parents who produce a child is periodic visits by child-
protection caseworkers who will do an annual audit of
each child's physical, social, and educational progress."
However, Lykken asserts, "Minnesotans and their legislative
representatives will [eventually] recognize the need to
take one further step. That step, I suggest, should be to
take custody of babies born to unlicensed mothers, before
bonding occurs, and to place them for adoption or perma-
nent care by professionally trained and supervised
foster parents."
Nor is this the last step that Lykken would take toward
the abolition of parental authority by the state. The
December 17, 1994 Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported,
"Under Lykken's system, if children were born to un-
licensed parents, the state would intervene immediately.
Licenses would be checked in hospital maternity wards.
Unlicensed parents would lose their children permanently.
Adoptions would be final and irreversible." Furthermore,
according to Lykken, "Repeat offenders might be required
to submit to an implant of Norplant [a surgical contra-
ceptive] as a way to keep them from having another baby
for five years."
Source: Insider Report, p.12
The New American
December 23, 1996