The former Minister of Education of Spain has already said so, Isabel CeláaThe children belong to the State".
Laws such as the Lomloe (a nonsense not only moral, but also academic) as well as the new abortion laws in Europe - Macron went so far as to say that it was a right - or the laws in favor of sex change, are undermining the authority of parents over their children. They not only lead to the de facto elimination of parental authority, but aim to manipulate minors in all aspects of social and emotional life, ambiguously interpreting the right to the best interests of the minor.
From different institutions, it is despised and even eliminated. the primordial role of parents in the integral education de their children.
However, this is not a new or exclusive process taking place in Spain. Throughout Europe, especially in Germanic and northern countries, these laws are considered pioneering and conform to a concept of tolerance that destroys the Christian and humanist European identity in favor of an ideology.
The objective is, on the one hand, the liquidation of the family as the nerve center of society and, on the other hand, a greater manipulation of minors. A tendency that is also spreading to the other side of the Atlantic.
The introduction of the ESI
Let's start with what we could call the 'beginning', but which has been implemented transversally in all areas of society for several years. As early as 2006, workshops, lectures and specific contents were introduced in Spain, through the Education Law and also through the reforms approved in the autonomous communities, establishing the need for Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) in all educational environments. This has led to the imposition, primarily in public schools, of a series of affective-sexual contents that lead children to a trivialization of sexuality and the destruction of their affectivity from the earliest stages.
The obligation to teach these contents without the approval of the parents directly infringes on parental authority and their responsibility for the education of their children. By eliminating this competence, it is established that the State can interfere in parental responsibility.
Hiding behind a supposed right to information for minors, CSE has been implemented in Europe since at least 2005. Already in 2016, the Council of Europe established the term 'Minor Intersex' and the need to establish in the education of minors - including the sectors of 3 to 6 years - sex education through workshops on 'exploration of sexuality', talks on tolerance, non-discrimination and gender ideology. The introduction of trans laws in many European countries in the last decade is not surprising.
"New rights"
Two rights of minors are usually repeated when this type of ideology is integrated into the school curriculum. The first is the right to non-discrimination of homosexual or intersex (transsexual) minors.
The problem with this right is that non-discrimination on the basis of 'sexual orientation' is difficult to interpret for children under 3 years of age, for example. It is curious that, before the introduction of these programs, children who declared themselves to be homosexual or transgender were a tiny fraction.
Since the introduction of gender ideology and sex education talks, the percentage has increased fivefold.
A trend that has continued to multiply with social networks, especially through the use of Tik Tok e Instagram. Many psychologists are already warning that the homosexual or transsexual tendency is increasing by 'contagion'.
The second right that is often mentioned - especially at the European level - is the right to information for minors, so that they are 'informed' and 'aware' of their sexuality and, according to European orders and recommendations, to avoid sexual abuse. A trend that is dangerously close to a certain sexualization of childhood.
The right to information of the minor is considered to be above the right of parents to educate their children and therefore, the State establishes itself as guarantor that the minor is informed of everything related to sex education. At least this is what the European directives state.
Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child While the European Union states that it is the duty of parents and the prerogative of parental authority to educate their children in the moral principles of their choice, European countries are trying to replace parents by arguing that they are supposedly defending minors against discrimination or even abuse.
In short, the power of parents to defend their children from interference by the State or ideologies is eliminated.
The objective of introducing CSE at an early age is twofold. On the one hand, to destroy the sense of modesty innate in minors and trivialize their sexuality, and on the other, to confront adolescents with their parents, who see their authority undermined by the authority of the social fabric around them.
Sex education programs are supposed to be aimed at preventing child sexual abuse, but the ultimate purpose is the sexualization of children. Not surprisingly, the results of these programs are precisely the opposite. Gabriele Kuby, in her book 'The Global Sexual Revolution' explains it masterfully: 'abuse prevention becomes an instrument of the state to sexualize children'.
The right of the parents with respect to their children lies in the incapacity of the minor. However, the interest of the minor may be superimposed on parental authority, whether this interest is declared by the minor or by the judge.
The interest of the minor, however, is becoming an excuse to prioritize ideologies over the decision of the parents. Famous is the case of the German family that had to spend a few days in jail for negligence in the education of one of their daughters, after refusing to allow her to attend a sex education talk at school.
Pro-abortion laws
State interference in parental power does not end with education. Abortion laws are eliminating, on the one hand, the three-day reflection period before undergoing an abortion and, on the other hand, promoting that minors from 16 years of age can have an abortion without parental consent or knowledge.
If, on the one hand, minors are not allowed to reflect and think about the violent side effects that can be caused by a abortionOn the other hand, parents are not allowed to influence or even be aware of a process that will have devastating effects on the psychology of their daughters. Not to mention the physical consequences that abortion can also have, both in the short and long term.
By eliminating the three days of reflection, the patient's right to informed consent - which includes knowing exactly the psychological and physical consequences of the abortion and the consequences of the procedure - as well as the consent of the minor's legal guardians, is violated. Any surgical intervention on a minor, even on an outpatient basis, requires such informed consent and the consent of the minor's legal guardians.
Trans' laws.
The attack on parental rights has reached its climax with the laws in favor of the hormone treatment of minors considered to be trans. The isolation to which we forced minors during the pandemic, the exponential use of social networks, the development of gender ideology and the trivialization of sexuality have led to an increase in the number of minors who claim to be 'trans'.
As Dr. Celso Arango, Head of Child Psychiatry at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital, used to say, to El MundoThe number of minors seeking a sex change has increased exponentially. 'It has become a fashion,' explained Arango.
A dangerous fashion if the patient is not adequately evaluated. In several countries it has happened that parents, sometimes due to ignorance of the process and sometimes because they have been prevented from intervening, have not been able to avoid the hormone treatment of their children, since it is a decision of the minor and the psychologist or psychiatrist who treats him/her, especially in adolescent minors who are considered capable of deciding for themselves. Even psychiatrists are often tied hand and foot with these laws, since in many countries they are not allowed to adequately evaluate the situation of the minor, if not to support the hormone treatment.
It can be argued that the mental health of the minor or his or her best interests are not being supported. The consequences are devastating for the psyche of minors and young people who undergo these treatments without true informed consent of the physical and psychological consequences. Many children considered as 'trans' have discovered over the years other pathologies and have realized that it was an irreversible treatment. The consequences for the child's interests and right to health are devastating.
Parents, actors of education
The situation obliges Catholic parents and educators to be aware of the battle ahead and also implies training them so that they can fight it effectively and comprehensively. Some universities and institutes are already creating these trainings for parents and educators in affectivity.
The ideological and political groups, lobbies and associations that approve and support the aforementioned laws aim to eliminate or minimize the right of parents to educate their children and we must be aware of this. That is why it is necessary to revalidate the role of parents and their ability to educate and care for their children, that is, to give them back their authority and responsibility towards their children.
Parents, nowadays, cannot delegate their educational role to schools, especially in the affective environment. Likewise, parents must teach their children an orderly and integral affectivity based on commitment and responsibility and not on desire and pleasure. Renouncing the affective education of our children would mean destroying and renouncing the most precious thing that human beings possess: their freedom.
