In the last part of My Story, there were a few strange things that happened in relation to the pediatric office visits with my daughter, her pediatrician, and the pediatric office staff. These things sparked questions in my mind, and I felt compelled to find answers.
There was a piece of paper they pushed at my daughter. It was a psychological profile. They would only allow me as a parent to see this paper after my daughter gave me permission. Did my daughter, along with the office staff, have authority over parents in this setting? It was strange, to say the least. Therefore, the doctor’s office seemed to be attempting to usurp the parent’s authority and rights over the child, and to take control of these in their office setting. This seemed to be a violation of parent’s rights and also of common sense.
As I did more research into the matter, I found this rather to be the rule rather than the exception. Also, I found that parents and their role in children’s health decision making (both mental and physical) have become diminished as others in children’s lives have become more important in making decisions for the children. These people not only include pediatric doctors and their office staff, but school officials, teachers, guidance counselors, and nursing staff at their schools. All these different ways parents’ rights were being stepped on appeared to be connected to Big Pharma and their tentacles of power reaching far and wide into innumerable areas of our lives.
Lately in the news there have been heart-wrenching stories I have seen about how parents have been overruled by those outside of their home and family, thereby exercising control of decisions which may be important in determining the child’s future. Almost all of these are an overreach by those in the community who wish to supersede the parent’s ability to determine what is in the best interests of the child and/or children involved.
Many parents have been forced to give their children psychiatric drugs.
Many of the ways local and state authorities take over the decision-making process from parents involve a few different subjects. One example of this is how some teachers push children they feel are disruptive in class, usually boys, to take an ADHD diagnostic test at a doctor’s office, so they can push parents into drugging the child into a zombie like state so their class can proceed uninterrupted. Boys tend to have a lot more energy and are more often disruptive in class, while girls tend to be quieter. It is probably due to this difference that boys are more often diagnosed with ADHD than girls.
After diagnosis, it seems that teachers have the right to disallow these ADHD diagnosed children from being in their class unless they are on their medication. Methylphenidate, the drug used for this purpose is also known in branding as Ritalin, Concerta, Daytrana, Aptensio XR, QuilliChew ER, et al. It is a serious drug, and one of its worst side effects after no longer taking it is the desire to commit suicide. Do not let anyone fool you about this drug they tout as the “smart pill.” There is nothing smart about it. The first four letters of Methylphenidate give its true nature away: METH. The list of side effects of this drug is long and can be found here:
Methylphenidate Side Effects: Common, Severe, Long Term
3 years ago, in 2022, marked the 20th anniversary of an organization called Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) which was established to fight against coercive psychiatric treatment, especially of the drugging of children in the United States. From an internet article titled “20th Anniversary of Fight for Kids Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse” dated November 7, 2022 by CCHR International:
20th Anniversary of Fight For Kids Campaign Against Psychiatric Child Abuse – CCHR International
“In 2002, CCHR documented how parents were being forced to give their children psychiatric drugs as a condition of attending school or else face charges of medical neglect.”
“Children were expected to ‘Say No to Drugs’ but ‘Yes’ to Ritalin – a prescription drug the Drug Enforcement Administration says is more potent than cocaine. They were prescribed it for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), for which there is not a single medical test to confirm its validity as a ‘disease’ or ‘disorder’ and for which psychiatrists could not establish any etiology.”
CCHR has “Worked with media to expose the link between psychiatric drugs and violence and suicide, documenting dozens of school shootings where the teens were taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs at the time. (Psychiatric drug withdrawal is also linked to hostile behavior.)”
The Columbine High School shooting in 1999 was a prime example of this. Eric Harris, 18, was the shooter and was taking antidepressants at the time.
CCHR “Contributed to the nationwide push against antipsychotic drugging of children especially those in foster care… helped obtain six state laws prohibiting Child Protective Services from forcing parents or foster parents to drug children, which stopped CPS from the astounding practice of filing criminal charges against parents who refused to drug their child, claiming it was ‘medical neglect.’”
And this next quote made me shudder as I began to realize why the nurse passed that mental health screening paper to my daughter in the pediatric office. It was to determine if my child was “troubled and needed help,” which is another way of asking if my child needed psychiatric drugs that Big Pharma would be happy to provide. A law in Florida was passed concerning these mental health screenings:
“The law which was subsequently unanimously passed not only made it illegal to force parents to drug their school-age children as a punitive requirement for their education, but also prohibited the use of mental health tests, screenings, or questionnaires without parental consent – where previously a parent’s right to be informed and to choose had been usurped.”
These screenings had been set up with the intent of allegedly helping children that needed help. But underneath this was the insidious snare of Big Pharma again finding ways to push and promote their products on an unsuspecting citizenry. It proved to be a brilliant marketing plan to push and promote prescription drug use in the adolescent population. They made billions. TeenScreen was one of these programs.
“Promoted as an aid to preventing suicide and identifying so-called mental disorders, TeenScreen is in fact a nefarious effort to recruit our children into the quagmire of biological psychiatry. It was developed and promoted by persons with deep financial ties to makers of psychiatric drugs.”
Big Pharma is behind this push to force children on drugs. Here is one last quote from this article which nicely sums this up for us.
“There have been significant billions of dollars spent on the advertising and marketing of psychotropic drugs, for which a return is expected of increased numbers of children and adolescents taking drugs that can have serious adverse effects, including suicide and violence.”
Childhood is not a disease. Acting like a child in a classroom setting is not an indication that they need drugs to calm down. It is more likely a sign that children are bored in this setting. We need to find more ways to keep children engaged in learning in the classroom. If a child begins acting up, it is usually a boy who needs to expend the pent-up energy they have. Instead of sending them to a doctor to get a prescription for drugs, why not find a different way to let them unleash this energy, and to come back to class after they do so? Drugs are not the answer.
More information can be found for CCHR on their Fight For Kids website. This is an organization that has done great good for the world and is deserving of our support. Here is the link for their website:
Fight For Kids—Because Childhood is not a mental disorder
Sex Change Operations and Hormone Therapy.
Another example of parents losing their rights for determining what is best for their own children was the desire for a sex change operation or hormone treatments by adolescents. Teachers, guidance counselors, school administrators, and nurses have sometimes decided that the children’s wants and needs were not being heard, and they demanded that the children’ s desire for a sex change procedure should overrule parent’s objections. In this example, people outside of the children’s home wanted children to be treated as adults, and be able to decide on irreversible life-changing medical procedures by themselves. But this is not right, they are not adults. If they can’t legally vote, drink alcohol, go to an R-rated movie, or buy cigarettes, then why should they be allowed to decide on a serious medical intervention that they may later regret as adults? They still need parents’ help and guidance to make good decisions for their lives and futures. These children need to be protected by their parents.
This is a controversial issue to be sure. But think about it as if you were a teenager. You are impatient. You are in a hurry. You think you know who you are. You want to change your gender and your identity now. But the fact of the matter is you may just have to wait. And waiting could be a good thing, because you may later change your mind. If you go to the amusement park, you have to wait for your turn. If you go anywhere people are congregated, you will have to wait in line. If you want to see a doctor, you need to make an appointment, and you may have to wait months to see the doctor. Life has a way of teaching us to be patient. Learning to be patient is a blessing. And waiting until you are an adult to do an irreversible sex change operation or hormone therapy may give you the time you need to think things through. Then you can decide what you want to do after you become an adult.
Let’s go back to parents being overruled and having their rights as parents trampled upon. There was an internet article dated 7/13/2023 titled “Gov. Mills Signs Law Allowing 16- and 17- year Olds to Receive Sex Change Hormone Therapy Without Parental Consent.” By Libby Palanza. The link can be found here:
In this article:
“Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed LD 535 into law Tuesday, which means minors aged 16 and 17 can receive hormone therapies prescribed to alter their physical sexual characteristics without parental consent and despite parental objections.”
“Under the new law, 16- and 17-year-olds ‘diagnosed with gender dysphoria by a health care professional’ may be provided ‘gender-affirming hormone therapy’ without the consent of a parent if they inform their health care provider that they ‘discussed’ their gender dysphoria with ‘a parent or guardian’ who subsequently ‘refused to support treatment.’”
If you can’t get your parents on board with your wishes, then the state and Big Pharma are there to “help.” Chalk up another victory for Big Pharma, and another loss for parental rights. Big Pharma gets to provide the very expensive drugs and hormone treatments, and the taxpayers get to pay for the bill. Federal money for these things should not be allowed. We need to enforce the 10th Amendment and allow the states and the people to control our own destinies.
There is another internet article titled “Detransitioners, parents demand end to ‘butchery’ of children through sex-change surgeries.” By Peter Pinedo dated 12/6/2024. In this article a few people who regretted that they did the sex change surgeries and hormone therapies spoke out:
“There was also a significant presence of former transgender people – ‘detransitioners’ – many of whom said they did not want more children to undergo the negative health effects they had endured due to sex-altering treatments.”
“I had trauma already, which made me have an identity crisis, and then I had even more trauma from the medicalization,” Becker added. “That’s a permanent effect I live with for the rest of my life.”
“I’m three years off of testosterone, and I still experience pelvic floor dysfunction,” she said. “My voice hurts, I can’t raise my voice very loud, it hurts to talk. It hurts. It’s not a fun life to live. I would like to keep other children from being forced to live this life.”
Also, from this same internet article is more on loss of parent’s rights due to transgender issues.
“Adam Vena, a father from California, said he had lost custody of his son ‘because I was not a gender-affirming parent.’”
“There were also several parents of transgender children who have been denied custody and access to their children because they would not affirm their transgender identities.”
“A California court ordered my son to go to a gender clinic at a Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. When I requested to sit in on the gender assessment, they denied me access to ask my own questions as his father,” he explained. “They also denied me a phone call. So, me being a father has been completely cut out of my son’s life.”
Do you see a pattern here, which is just under the radar of what we are focusing our attention on?
Big Pharma is providing lawmakers with campaign contributions and other enticements so they will propose laws that limit parents’ rights while also pushing and promoting laws which help Big Pharma sell their products to make more money. Big Pharma, the lobbyists of Big Pharma, and elected officials who can enact and enforce laws, are coming together to deprive parents of their rights as parents, and Big Pharma is getting richer while our elected lawmakers feed at the trough of Big Pharma money. Parents’ rights are being taken away, and others are allowing and approving children to overstep parental boundaries and receive medical procedures (hormone treatments) take place against the parent’s wishes. This is not right.
Common sense should rule here. If the children cannot join the army, buy a beer at the store, or go to the movie theater and watch an R rated movie, then why on earth should they be allowed to do something which may prove irreversible, and which they may regret, as many of them have later attested to in hindsight? When these children become adults and realize they were pressured to do this by others, such as adults with ulterior motives, or others of their own age group in a typical peer pressure situation, they can end up committing suicide or suffer depression from which they may never recover. They are children and they are still learning what the world is about. They need protection not only from others around them, but from themselves. What seems like a good idea one moment may not be such a great idea the next. Give them time to grow and mature. When they become adults, then they can make these decisions for themselves. In the meantime, let the parents do their job, which is to protect and raise their children to the best of their abilities.
Forced Vaccinations or No School.
One more example of parents’ rights being violated was whether the school has the right to demand children be vaccinated to attend school, even if parents have a doctor’s note clearly stating that a child has had extreme reactions to vaccines, and that these may cause serious health problems for the child. In many states, school districts have declared children cannot attend school unless they have vaccines as required by state law. And if a child is blocked from school due to lack of vaccination and does not attend school or get an education from somewhere as the state requires, then parents can be charged with child neglect, and their child can be taken away from them and placed in the foster system.
What kind of choice is this for a parent with a child that has been shown to be sensitive to vaccines? Either injure your high-risk child with vaccines and be allowed to attend public school or protect your child’s health by not vaccinating them, only to lose your child to the foster system, which will then likely give them the vaccines as required by state law.
It is interesting to note here that some of these state laws requiring vaccination have been written wholly or in part by those who represent Big Pharma and are put into place as law by lawmakers who have received money through lobbyists on Big Pharma’s behalf. The system is corrupt.
These are issues for parents to discuss with their children and/or doctor, and then for the parents to decide what is best for their children. The state and federal government, and local school officials and their administration should keep out of these things as they are family matters. And parents, along with the advice from their own chosen healthcare professionals, should decide what is the best treatment, if any, for their children. The parents should decide what is best for their children and their family, and this authority should not be overruled by others.
Is our Democracy becoming a Totalitarian State?
Unless I am in a totalitarian state where the state controls all things related to the family and their children, then it is easy to see that there is something wrong here. In a democracy, freedom is the right of every individual. In a free country, you have choices about what you believe, how you live, how you raise your children, what you teach your children or agree that others teach them, and what medical treatments and/or procedures you allow others to administer to them. In a democracy, it is up to parents and/or the guardians of the children to determine these things.
In addition to these above examples of parent’s rights being violated, I also learned that there was federal money floating to the states for various things related to child healthcare and other related healthcare policies. This appears to be a clear violation of the 10th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, which states that: “Any powers not given to the federal government are reserved for the states or the people.” Federal money is sometimes being used to take children away from their parents in a process called medical kidnapping of children. This kidnapping often takes place when there is a difference of opinion between the parent’s chosen healthcare professional and the staff at the local emergency room or hospital. The family physician that has known the child all their lives is sometimes superseded in authority and decision making by other local doctors and hospital staff. The federal money that is in play seems a determining factor for overruling the family’s chosen physician. It is just another example of corruption within the system, and an example of how parent’s and children’s rights and therefore the constitutional rights of individuals are being trampled upon, so that Big Government and Big Pharma can get what they want. This will be looked into more thoroughly over the next two weeks, as I take a deep dive and do a book review on this topic. The book is titled Medical Kidnapping, and author is Brian Shilhavy, owner of Health Impact News. This book was written in 2016 and is still very relevant today.
The federal government is a poor allocator of resources generally. If there was a pothole on your street, would you rather have the federal government in charge of repairing this pothole, or would you prefer the local government to fix it? An easy question to answer. As a rule, it generally takes the federal government much longer to do a job, any job. That is because it is a giant bureaucracy. This is why at a local level things get done faster and with better results.
Regarding healthcare, local government decision making as it relates to children’s health and healthcare should be the rule, and the federal government should stay out of this altogether. Too much federal money has created massive corruption within the system, as those who are involved scramble to get at this money. Let the 10th Amendment be followed, and much of this corruption will quickly come to an end.
The research related to this subject led me to one of my solutions for healthcare in this country. It is Solution #3. This is an excerpt from my book: Louis Pasteur Condemns Big Pharma: Vaccines, Drugs, and Healthcare in the United States:
“Solution #3. PARENTS SHOULD DECIDE WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THEIR CHILDREN. No drugs, vaccines, or medical procedures of any kind should be given or done to any child without the knowledge, approval, and consent of the parents or guardians of that child. No federal funding for children’s services within individual states for foster care or adoption should be allowed, as this violates the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, and encourages medical kidnapping by the states. Medical kidnapping by the state and their children’s health services due to a difference of professional medical opinion in health treatments for children should be disallowed. Doctors make mistakes. Therefore, one doctor’s diagnosis or opinion should never be considered enough evidence to take a child away from their parents. The parents/guardians, along with the advice of their own healthcare providers and not the state, shall determine what the acceptable treatment, if any, for any health condition present in their children should be. Parental rights and determination regarding children’s health treatment in cooperation with a licensed healthcare provider supersedes any local medical or governmental authority.
This recent movement to take away the rights and responsibilities from parents or their guardians must stop. It makes no sense. Children are not old enough or mature enough to make decisions which could affect the rest of their lives. They are children, and do not have the experience to make such decisions. This is a parent’s job. Parents are the ones responsible for their children, not the state, the school, or the doctor’s office. If others do these things without parental consent or knowledge and the child is killed or injured permanently from medical treatments, procedures, drugs, or vaccines, then who will be responsible for burying the child, or taking care of the disabled child for the remainder of their lives? It is the parents. Therefore, parents should have the ultimate authority over their children and their healthcare until the children become adults, at which time they can then make their own decisions for their lives and their healthcare options. The exception to this rule is if the children (<18 years old) are emancipated from their parents and/or are living apart from their parents and are responsible for their own welfare.”
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Let me just reiterate that last sentence of Solution #3 on what I believe to be a quintessential right of the parents. Parents along with their own chosen healthcare professional should rule above anyone else’s opinion, even the president of the United States and his entire medical staff and even including the best and most prestigious doctors and hospitals in the world. It is the parents, along with their own chosen healthcare professionals, who should determine what is right for their children and their family.
This is America, and this is why many people from distant lands from all around the world wanted to come here and be a part of this grand experiment in freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom to raise children in a way they choose, with very little involvement from a government, which should come into play rarely if at all. Let the parents decide what is right for their children.
Next week: A book review on what is happening here in America regarding Children’s Protective Services (CPS) and medical kidnapping of children. The book is titled Medical Kidnapping. Author Brian Shilhavy. 2016