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According to Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), they do.

The Senator is pushing for the U.S. to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.  193 other United Nations participant countries have ratified the 20-year-old agreement, while only the United States and Somalia have not.

Says Boxer, “Children deserve basic human rights … and the convention protects children’s rights by setting some standards here so that the most vulnerable people of society will be protected.”

Granted, I don’t buy into the black helicopter crowd’s assertions that this would lead to the U.N. being able to tell parents in the U.S. that they can’t ground their children for smoking pot or tell “their children to do the dishes”, but I don’t really see why the U.S. needs to sign on to it.

Don’t children already have human rights in the United States?

I thought they did, but apparently the Bill of Rights isn’t good enough for Senator Boxer.

Boxer Seeks to Ratify U.N. Treaty That May Erode U.S. Rights – Presidential Politics | Political News – FOXNews.com.

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