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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.politics,net.kids
Subject: Re: Homosexual teachers- a serious question
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Date: Fri, 20-Jul-84 18:20:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 20 18:20:00 1984
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>  What about the "inalienable rights" of the parents to raise their children
>  according to their own standards?

They are worth squat.  They are not rights at all.  What right does a parent
have to "expect" to raise children to mold them as *they* see fit?  Children
are not pieces of property; they are human beings who are growing up to be
independent (hopefully) thinking (hopefully) adults (hopefully).  Parents
don't *own* them; they are charged with the responsibility of bringing them up
to be independent thinking adults, and there are NO rights associated with that
responsibility.  Parents who expect their children to live up to *their*
expectations (being a doctor/lawyer/athlete/hotshot) so that *they* can gloat
and take pride in what their children have done, or parents who engage in any
similar form of psychological manipulation of their children, are as guilty of
child abuse as the ones who beat and molest their kids.  Emotional abuse can
leave deeper scars than physical abuse.

[OBVIOUSLY MR. ROSEN DOESN'T HAVE VERY STRONG OPINIONS ON THIS ISSUE.  -ED.]
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