Families are stronger when parents understand and fulfill their parental responsibilities, and strong families strengthen communities, states, and nations. However, families grow weaker when government takes over parental responsibilities.
According to Elizabeth (Troutman) Mitchell, a widowed mother lost her then-14-year-old daughter to the foster care system of California in 2016. Years later, the daughter regretted her attempts to transition, and her mother is raising a warning voice to other parents about allowing their minor children to “make irreversible changes to their bodies.” By the time that the daughter reached the age of 22, the mother and daughter were good friends, but their journey was far from easy. Mitchell wrote of the journey as follows.
The mother of two, whose husband had died
years earlier, was accused of emotional abuse for forbidding her teenage
daughter from binding her chest and wearing male clothes. Her daughter was
taken from the family and placed in a foster home for a few months….
The Daily Signal reviewed Los
Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services documentation in
which a social worker, referring to the then-14-year-old with he/him pronouns
and a male name, details the daughter’s time in foster care, her accusations of
emotional abuse against her mother, and her later renunciation of the claims.
The mother had to hire lawyers to regain
custody of her daughter and clear her name of the abuse charges. The charges
would have disqualified her from continuing to pursue a career as a Christian
counselor.
After a few months in a packed foster home
in a dangerous neighborhood, the daughter asked to come home. She admitted to
lying about the abuse, saying that she got the idea to accuse her mother of
abuse from people online who said that was the ticket to getting away from her family….
The mother hired two attorneys to get her
teenager back and clear her name. She said she felt like Child Protective
Services was looking for reasons to tear her family apart….
After the daughter returned home, she
called social workers on her mother a few more times, accusing her mom of abuse
for refusing to buy her male clothing. The mother received a California Child
Abuse Central Index (CACI) violation for declining to take her daughter to a
program at the Los Angeles LGBT Center for LBGTQ+ youths ages 2-25 called Rise….
At age 17, the daughter admitted to
getting a prescription for testosterone from a therapist behind her mom’s
back. She took it for a few days, but she told her mom she felt God was
telling her to stop.
The mom said she couldn’t have gotten
through the difficult time without her faith community. She left California a
few years ago, partially because of how her parental rights were disrespected
there….
This is not the first time the Los Angeles
County Department of Children and Family Services has taken a daughter away
from her mother over transgender ideology….
Some
states, such as California and Minnesota, are passing laws that allow the
government to end parental rights over transgender issues. There is much
information on the internet, and youth today are technically savvy in finding
it. They are also quite capable of keeping such information secret from their
parents until they are well indoctrinated in whatever topic that they are
researching.
Wise
parents will keep communication channels open with their children and be a safe
place where their children can take their concerns and questions. Questions
should also be wary of any distance that their child is putting between them. Parents
must be aware of politicians who will aid in destroying parental rights and
cast their votes for only those who will protect parental rights.
The
family is the core unit of society in time and in eternity. We must protect the
family and family responsibilities. We must support those individuals and
organizations that support the family. We can keep our families strong, and
strong families will strengthen our communities, states, and nations.
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