We are to live according to the Laws of God, not by the whims of those who promote deceit and destruction.

Socialism is another layer of dead wood heaped on the American citizen. The under layer starts with the legal notion of 'Parens Patriae'. According to the legal dictionary, Parens Patiae has become the precedent. It states-

[A]ccording to the courts of this land, ... "A child is primarily" not his parents' offspring but "a ward of the [S]tate"; ... parents hold relationship he owes allegiance to the government"; ... parents serve as a mere "guardianship" which "the government places [the child] under"; ... parental authority must be "at all times exercised in subordination to the paramount and overruling direction of the [S]tate"; ... "the natural rights of a parent to the custody and control of... his child are subordinate to the power of the [S]tate";... in deciding whether parent or State will control a child's education, the child's academic progress under the parents - even as measured by State-approved tests - has been termed by State prosecutors as "irrelevant and immaterial"; and finally ... such legal principles and policies form the basis of all this nation's compulsory education laws. (pp. xix-xx)

From this, we can understand why this is happening in the United States, but it is with far more nefarious means of encroachment. Think public schools, lock downs, curriculum, and school meals, etc. It's all part of this international legal system based on Marxism, to which demands your children belong to the government. What is government though, if not a brutal force?