Comments on: Stealth Agenda in Health-Care Bill: Early Childhood Home Visitation

By: lynn

lynn — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:08:24 +0000

My degree is in early childhood development….and I can tell you that this sounds nice on the outside. However, anything that has to do with the government needs to be seriously scrutinized…..this so-called “voluntary” program (just what we need…another government program) can quickly turn into forced entry by the feds. The feds are doing what they do best…putting all parents into the same “bad parenting” category. I'm surprised that Kit Bond would be behind such a program…I thought he knew better than this.

By: jillmonette

jillmonette — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:12:15 +0000

The government under this provision would have access to the home of any citizen under any kind of trumped up excuse. Hello, Big Brother!

By: michael

michael — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:00:12 +0000

Well the states would need to hire social workers. Anything that worker sees in the home she/he considers wrong has to be reported to the authorities. So if I have a swimming pool but it does not have a safety gate then I can be reported to CPS. This Home Visitation program is a bad idea. The way to do this is to provide states with grants that can be rewarded to organizations that specialize in teaching parenting skills and community outreach to citizens who feel they would benefit from this. There are several organizations in Houston that specialize in these programs. They do not report to the Feds. They report to the state and the evaluation of the programs is a well documented method of social program evaluation.

By: michael

michael — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:59:57 +0000