President Joe Biden slipped up and said the quiet part out loud on Monday, implying during a Rose Garden speech that America’s children belong to the state, not their parents. The 80-year-old president was honoring the 2023 national and state teachers of the year at a White House ceremony when he quoted a former educator by saying,
“There is no such thing as someone else’s child. No such thing as someone else’s child. Our nation’s children are all our children.”
Biden’s comments were disturbing but unsurprising in the context of the left’s crusade to defeat parental rights legislation and inject leftist race and gender theory into elementary school classrooms. Several high-profile Democrats have made similar remarks over the past decade, echoing the belief that the political left–not parents–should dictate how children are raised. Recall that during the COVID-19 lockdowns, nearly one-third of Democrats said they supported parents losing custody of their children if they questioned the vaccine.
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BIDEN: "There's no such thing as someone else's child. No such thing as someone else's child. Our nation's children are all our children." pic.twitter.com/U5VursxCjH
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 24, 2023
The President’s Rose Garden speech represents a renewed effort to replace the role of parents with liberal educators and party stooges. Rightfully so, Biden’s disturbing remarks received blowback from parents and Republican lawmakers alike,
“Mr. President, you are absolutely wrong,” said South Carolina Senator Tim Scott.
“Sorry, but Hunter’s on you,” said another critic, taking a jab at the President’s son, who is currently facing a federal investigation.
“Absolutely NOT,” said Nicki Neily, founder and president of Parents Defending Education.
“My children are my children. They don’t belong to the government or ANYONE else! Stay in your lane and stop trying to chip away at parental rights, [President Biden].”
“A blatant admission that the left is trying to abolish parental rights,” said Liz Wheeler. “Step away from my daughter, you absolute ghoul.”
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Biden: “There's no such thing as someone else's child… Our nation's children are all our children.”
A blatant admission that the left is trying to abolish parental rights. Step away from my daughter, you absolute ghoul.
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) April 24, 2023
A Fox News Digital report quoted one critic who drew a parallel between Biden’s comments and those of failed 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton, who, as First Lady, infamously authored a book championing the idea that children belong to their community, not parents.
“This is that Hillary Clinton, it takes a village nonsense.”
“As the great Senator Bob Dole said in 1996, ‘It doesn’t take a village to raise a child. It takes a family to raise a child,'” the critic added.
Biden’s disturbing comments also echoed those of MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, who in 2016 suggested that Americans needed to “break through” the idea that children belong to their parents as part of the network’s “Lean Forward” campaign.
“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children…
So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”
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