United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Someone asked me how I felt about The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Frankly I had never heard of it so I had to do some research. This is something that the UN has been working on for a long time and I suppose it has now come back into vogue. Here is the TEXT of the bill. Basically it is a childhood bill of rights that includes the right to have a childhood and it has been written in response to countries that exploit children. Of course it all sounds good. Heck, who doesn't want children to have rights? Who wants children to be exploited, harmed, overworked and underrepresented? NO one does!

The problem I have with it is two-fold. First, if our government passes this legislation, basically following the rules of the UN, then what happens to the Constitution? The US, IMO, should not be following other forms of government. Period. If we want to legislate something, then we should do it through our own laws. The second problem I have with this has to do with the language of the legislation. If you read the TEXT of the UN Right of the Child you can see that it is extremely vague. Some people have interpreted the vagueness as a threat to homeschooling. I can see where they are coming from. Articles 28 and 29 in the TEXT refer to education. Again, kinda vague. Here is an article referring to the possible threat to home education:
United Nations Children'ss Treaty

No one wants deplorable conditions for children. I mean really, that is just inhumane to think otherwise. However, not only is the language a bit vague, but how will it be enforced? Every "state" will have a committee that is elected to make the specific rules for that "state." BUT how will it be enforced? Will the UN make the United States the policeman to the Children's Treaty? I sure hope not! Will the UN troops enforce this? If so, who gets to pay for it? The US pays the bulk of the expenses for the UN as it is.

These questions need to be answered first before anything is passed. I seriously doubt it will pass anything since this has been around a long time already.