Barbara Boxer and Switzerland want to raise your kids

Once again, the U.S. is being unreasonable in not letting the rest of the world tell us how to run our lives. So says Barbara Boxer, Senator from California(where else). Boxer has made clear her intent to revive the ratification process under the Obama administration, which may be amenable to the move. During a Senate confirmation hearing last month, Boxer said she considers it "a humiliation" that the U.S. is refusing to let other countries tell us what to do, while 193 other nations have caved. The California Democrat is pushing President Barack Hussein Obama to review the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, a nearly 20-year-old international agreement that says parents are too stupid to know how to raise their own kids. The convention has established a Committee on the Rights of the Child, an 18-member panel in Geneva composed of "persons of high moral character"(by whose standards?)who review the rights of children in nations that are party to the convention, obviously because they don't think anyone else has moral character.

"To the extent that an outside body, a group of unaccountable so-called experts in Switzerland have a say over how children in America should be raised, educated and disciplined -- that is an erosion of American sovereignty," said Steven Groves, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

"Now, all you have to do is look around the world and see these girls that are having acid thrown in their face," Boxer said in January, implying that the U.S. refusal to come aboard has made people in other countries so mad they throw acid in their daughters faces.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/25/boxer-seeks-ratify-treaty-erode-rights/