The current uproar in Massachusetts about teaching diverse sexual behaviors and matching vocabulary is but one florid example. A daunting series of bureaucratic hurdles impede parents seeking to exercise this right. Parents who choose private or charter or home schooling must pay for that, too. Thus, the State turns a right into a burden. That is indefensible both morally and legally.
Children lose their fathers and also the income extracted in their name.
On June 5, these dirty secrets of contemporary life were swept under the carpet by slick judicial phrases. The Supreme Court knows this. Governments and courts profit from it. As Baskerville writes in his new book, Taken into Custody , the state now lives by routine violation of parental, especially paternal rights. Just as in the Elian Gonzalez case, the government has pretended to care about families, while advancing its own power at the expense of children.