Parenting with Personality

Parenting with Personality

Food for thought. Once you have thought about it, let me know how you feel.



PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO CONCERNED PARENTS

Congress has funded the development of a plan for
_mandatory_ mental health screening of all school
children. The purpose of this screening will be to
determine which children should be prescribed
powerful psychiatric drugs.

If this new program moves forward parents will lose
control over mental health decisions involving their
children.

And children will face having evidence of psychiatric
disorders added to their permanent record.

This program is being promoted, as usual, to "save
the children," but the scientific questions involved
in childhood mental health "problems" such as
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are extremely
unsettled. There is intense scientific debate about
the validity of these disorders.

Worse still, no one fully knows the long term health
effects of administering powerful drugs to developing
brains. The already known side effects of these drugs
can be severe. Two deaths have already been
attributed to Ritalin prescribed to children.

Parents and children stand to lose from this new
federal program. So who benefits? Big pharmaceutical
companies that help fund political campaigns.
Fortunately, Representatives Ron Paul and Tom Feeney
are riding to the rescue.

They have introduced The Parental Consent Act of 2005
(HR 181) to counter this emerging threat. This bill
would de-fund the mental health screening program.
This bill needs your support. Please go to
http://www.DownsizeDC.org and click on the icon for
the campaign titled, "No Child Left Un-drugged."

Then, you can use the easy Electronic Lobbyist system
to send your representatives a message to support HR
181. If you're a first time user, please note that
you need to insert your own, easy-to-remember,
password. Do not let the system assign one to you!

After you've made your voice heard, please forward
this message to other concerned parents and
taxpayers.

Jim Babka
President
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.

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