No, President Biden, Children Don't Belong to the Government | Opinion
Joe Biden."They're all our children," Biden recently said to teachers gathered at the 2022 National and State Teachers of the Year event on April 27. "They're not somebody else's children; they're like yours when they're in the classroom." According to the president, the government has a sphere of sovereignty over children into which parents cannot intrude.This view is wrong.
Children never "belong" to the state. The state's role is secondary to the role of parents, whose rights do not stop at the schoolhouse gate.As the Supreme Court wrote in Wisconsin v.
Yoder, "The history and culture of Western civilization reflect a strong tradition of parental concern for the nurture and upbringing of their children.
This primary role of the parents in the upbringing of their children is now established beyond debate as an enduring American tradition."The courts have recognized that becoming a mother or a father creates a duty to care for one's own child.
