That’s what I thought the article I posted spoke, just from this line:
The Clinton administration signed the convention but never submitted it for Senate ratification because a number of groups argued it infringed on the rights of parents and was inconsistent with state and local laws.

Then you go and post a volume:
The U.N. committees are urging states to give minor children:



• The right to privacy, even in the household;
• The right to professional counseling without parental consent or guidance;
• The full right to abortion and contraceptives, even when that would violate the parents’ ethics and desires;
• The right to full freedom of expression at home and in school;
• The legal mechanisms to challenge in court their parent’s authority in the home.

For example, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child recommends to the Japanese government that it “guarantee the child’s right to privacy, especially in the family.” Such a measure would establish legal and structural wedges between parents and their children in the home. Normally, when children rebel against their parents, society frowns. Yet the U.N. is attempting to put in place, in policy and law, structures that foster this type of rebellion.

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Contraception for teenagers is a highly controversial issue, especially when governments advocate access for minors over the wishes of parents. Nowhere in the U.N.’s committee reports or on its Web site does the organization propose abstinence until marriage. Instead, the CEDAW committees repeatedly urge that teenagers have:

• Universal access to contraceptives and abortions without their parents’ permission, and
• Access to medical counseling services without their parents’ consent.
• For example, the U.N. committee urged Ireland to “improve family planning services and the availability of contraception, including for teenagers and young adults.” Yet, since making contraception available to single people three decades ago, Ireland has seen its rates of divorce, out-of-wedlock birth, sexually transmitted disease, violence, and abortion soar. The U.N. committees also give similar advice to other countries, including Peru, Russia, the Maldives, Yemen, and Macedonia.





Volumes indeed,
Dan