Biden Plan to “Help” Parents is a TRAP!

Under the guise of “helping” parents deal with stress, the Biden administration is plotting a dramatic expansion of government into the home. In short, federal authorities are seeking to take on even more responsibilities traditionally associated with the family while drugging ever larger numbers of Americans.

Critics, though, are sounding the alarm. Among other concerns, opponents are warning of a government power grab underway that seeks to further empower the state and undermine the nuclear family. The real answer to stress, they say, is strong marriages and Godly living.

In the bizarre new report by Biden-appointed Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, the senior “health” bureaucrat classifies parental stress levels as a major “public health” problem. And of course, with “public health” excuses (think Covid) comes the presumption that government “solutions” are required, and traditional limits on power are to be discarded.

Among the unconstitutional recommendations offered by Murthy: more tax-funded mental-health screenings for parents, more tax-funded drugs (and more tax-funded profits for Big Pharma), more taxpayer-funded “childcare” programs, more taxpayer-funded “cash assistance,” and more tax-funded mandates for companies.    

The Biden administration’s fingerprints are all over the report. As Axios put it, “some of the remedies dovetail with Vice President Kamala Harris’ economic plan.” Politico, meanwhile, noted that the recommendations such as universal tax-funded pre-K were “in line with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign pitch.”

Murthy painted taking people’s money and spending it for them as an “investment” in them. “As a country, we need to invest more in caring for … parents and supporting their well-being,” he said without explaining how parents coped with life before he arrived. “My hope is that the well-being of parents would not be a political or partisan issue.”

The report also tries to use parental stress to promote other totalitarian-inspired policies on unrelated issues. For example, according to Murthy, being worried about “gun violence” is a significant source of stress. And gun violence itself has been dubbed a “public health” problem, so the math is simple: Government must act!

Unsurprisingly, the Biden administration’s solution is not to go back to the days before school shootings when firearms were ubiquitous but when children still learned about God, the Ten Commandments, the Bible, and the value of life. Instead, civilian disarmament is the order of the day.

“Behind this youth mental health crisis is a real crisis with parents, where many of them are struggling with profound stress and with their own mental health challenges,” Murthy was quoted as saying by. “If you really want to help kids, one of the things you’ve got to do is actually help parents.”

Murthy bases his conclusions about parental stress on findings by researchers at the far-left American Psychological Association. The group has become a leading promoter of castrating boys and giving girls hysterectomies and double-mastectomies under the guise of “gender-affirming care,” among other crimes against humanity.  

One of the major stressors affecting parents, according to Murthy and his report, is financial security. According to Murthy, parents are increasingly struggling to pay their bills and that makes them stressed. But that should hardly be surprising.

With inflation (theft by the Federal Reserve) eating away at peoples’ purchasing power, government waging war on productive industries and energy, and taxes (at the local, state, and federal level) consuming well over half of everything Americans produce, it is primarily government that is causing parents (and non-parents) to be stressed about finances.

But this agenda is not new, even though the excuse may be. In a policy brief put out by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Barack Obama’s final year, the federal government called for parents and governments to be “equal partners” in raising children.

The United Nations, meanwhile, is pushing to have government become the primary arbiter of what is in the “best interest” of children—and to act accordingly. In response to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Scottish government created a program where every child gets a personal named bureaucrat to oversee their upbringing from birth.

As President Ronald Reagan warned at a 1986 press conference, “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help’.” Reagan also pointed out that “government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” He is right on both counts — especially here.

What American parents need is not more government programs and drugs funded by their own taxes or more “childcare” schemes to have the state take care of their children. What they really need is strong marriages, strong families, and biblical wisdom — all of which the government has been waging war on for generations. The government should get out.  

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Alex Newman is an award-winning international journalist, educator, author, and consultant who co-wrote the book “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children.” He writes for diverse publications in the United States and abroad. Originally published at ‍FreedomProject Media.