May 2013, Advancing "SHARED RESPONSIBILITY" between parents and the state for child-rearing: Scotland plans massive state surveillance of families with one "named person" per child. Read more in this BBC article and this Scottish Express article: SNP bill to spy…
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We need parents to be at the centre of policy for families and children.Currently the powerful organized voices - and therefore the special interests - of business, academics, researchers, social service unions and professionals dominate policy formation.They even use your…
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“The child shall have the right to be cared for by his or her parents.”“[Governments] shall respect the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents to provide appropriate direction and guidance in the exercise by the child of the rights recognized…
Who is Responsible for Children? on Corus radio's April 14, 2013 Roy Green Show: Kids First President Helen Ward discusses the claim that children belong to the community "collective" and are not the "private" responsibility of their parents as described…
Feb 2013: Landmark Human Rights Case for FamiliesA court ruled that child care is a real need and not a life style choice and that the employer must make accommodation for this need as would be required for disability or…
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Kids First press release: Parents get lip service in Ontario daycare consultation June 28, 2012. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - press release (PDF): Parents get lip service in Ontario daycare consultation—Ontario summertime daycare consultation excludes parents
A document authored by Dr Clyde Hertzman of HELP, Canada's leading guru pushing privacy-violating data mining and institutional child care, outlines "5 Year Plan". Here is the 2009 document prepared by the Monitoring Committee of the Early Childhood Learning Knowledge…
Feb 2012, Huffington Post article: Dad arrested and strip searched because 4 year old drew a picture of a gun. Ontario Premier approves and school officials say they "co-parent"
Norway bullying Indian parents by taking away their children… for breastfeeding responsively, co-sleeping, and teaching their children to eat with their hand! Read more:23 January 2012. Mail Online - (web): "Indian couple have children taken away by Norwegian social workers…
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Jan 18, 2012. Charisma News - (web): "Home-schooling Families May Lose Child Custody in Sweden"
September 8, 2011. Kids First Parent Association of Australia - video: Gillard punishes mothers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TprGwsaj5mA e
Population Data BC provides some information on BC's data mining mega-project "designed to capture the power of linkable, longitudinal data, and avoid the inefficiencies associated with project-by-project data linkage." Perhaps the "inefficiencies" they refer to are things like informed consent.…
Complaint about HELP’s violation of informed consent and privacy to UBC Behavioural Research Ethics Board—Jan 2011. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - official complaint: (download PDF here)Feb 15 2011 reply from UBC’s Behavioural Research Ethics Board to complaint regarding…
Wikipedia - article (web): Computerized student data system in BC—BCeSIS BCeSIS home (broken link)
May 15, 2011. The Family Campaign Foundation of Sweden - media release (PDF): "Swedish intolerance in child care"
