American Academy of Pediatrics - turning your kids into spies

Michael Graham:

“The doctor wanted to know how much you and mom drink, and if I think it’s too much,” my daughter told us afterward, rolling her eyes in that exasperated 13-year-old way. “She asked if you two did drugs, or if there are drugs in the house.”

“What!” I yelped. “Who told her about my stasher, I mean, ‘It’s an outrage!’”

I turned to my wife. “You took her to the doctor. Why didn’t you say something?”

She couldn’t, she told me, because she knew nothing about it. All these questions were asked in private, without my wife’s knowledge or consent.

“The doctor wanted to know how we get along,” my daughter continued. Then she paused. “And if, well, Daddy, if you made me feel uncomfortable.”

Great. I send my daughter to the pediatrician to find out if she’s fit to play lacrosse, and the doctor spends her time trying to find out if her mom and I are drunk, drug-addicted sex criminals.

We’re not alone, either. Thanks to guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and supported by the commonwealth, doctors across Massachusetts are interrogating our kids about mom and dad’s “bad” behavior.

We used to be proud parents. Now, thanks to the AAP, we’re “persons of interest.”

The paranoia over parents is so strong that the AAP encourages doctors to ignore “legal barriers and deference to parental involvement^[1]” and shake the children down for all the inside information they can get. [Highlighting mine - O.G.]

Communist playbook 101: Use the kids to spy on their parents.

The American Academy of Pediatrics website is worth a visit, if only for "know the enemy" reasons. Aside from reasonable medical care issues, the Academy advocates restoring the 55 mph national speed limit and is a co-sponsor of the "Asking Saves Kids" Campaign that, under the guise of encouraging gun safety actually promotes the harassment and shunning of legitimate gun owners.^[2] They also operate a national media education campaign under the rather unfortunately-coincidental name Media Matters.^[3]

Naming names: If you're bothered about this sort of back-door surveilance, you might ask your pediatrician how much (s)he's doing.
American Academy of Pediatrics - Board of Directors

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Footnotes

^[1] AAP Policy Statement, "also approved as policy by: the American Academy of Pediatrics; the American Academy of Family Physicians; the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; NAACOG-The Organization for Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nurses; and the National Medical Association:"

"...the health risks to the adolescents are so impelling that legal barriers and deference to parental involvement should not stand in the way of needed health care."

The statement was published in AAP News in 1989 (1989;4:151), and reaffirmed in January 1993. HOWEVER, the AAP's Policy Page carries this notice:

All policy statements from the American Academy of Pediatrics automatically expire 5 years after publication unless reaffirmed, revised, or retired at or before that time.

I was unable to find this title in the current list, thus its current validity is unclear. The link to the statement came from Michael Graham's weblog entry on this subject.

^[2] From the page linked above:

The ASK Campaign is a public education collaboration between the AAP and PAX—an organization offering real solutions to gun violence...
The... Campaign encourages parents to ask their neighbors if they have a gun in the home before sending their children over to play.

^[3] which has no apparant connection to the Soros-funded mediamatters.org. In fact, the AAP was first with the name, launching its program in 1997.

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