I am usually loath to side with fundamentalists but in this case I do. I have a feeling that short of outright abuse and neglect - parents have a right to raise their children as they wish. Once the government starts interfering and setting standards then...at what point do they stop? Who's to say they are right and the parents wrong? Certain minimum standards are already mandated - including standards of education.

In real life one of my occupations is dog training. There has been some discussion of attempting to regulate dog training practices and bring them in line with modern ideas of "humane training" as per PETA and HSUS. The problem is that yes, there are some very abusive practices and some very ignorant ones. But many people who are trying to legislate training methods are ideologues who have no realistic idea of what a dog is, how to train one, or what is really "humane" for the dog's ability to live in a human world. They've been indoctrinated by Disney.

Parenting is similar.

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