Kids and Guns: Watch your Pediatricians behavior!!

[JayBell]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opi...32#articleFull

Doc, what’s up with snooping?
Pediatrician paranoia runs deep

By Michael Graham | Thursday, October 4, 2007 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Op-Ed
They’re watching you right now.

They counted every beer you drank during last night’s Red Sox [team stats] game.

They see you sneaking out to the garage for a smoke.

They know if you’ve got a gun, and where you keep it.

They’re your kids, and they’re the National Security Agency of the Nanny State.

I found this out after my 13-year-old daughter’s annual checkup. Her pediatrician grilled her about alcohol and drug abuse.

Not my daughter’s boozing. Mine.

“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” and shake the children down for all the inside information they can get.

And that information doesn’t stay with the doctor, either.

Debbie is a mom from Uxbridge who was in the examination room when the pediatrician asked her 5-year-old, “Does Daddy own a gun?”

When the little girl said yes, the doctor began grilling her and her mom about the number and type of guns, how they are stored, etc.

If the incident had ended there, it would have merely been annoying.

But when a friend in law enforcement let Debbie know that her doctor had filed a report with the police about her family’s (entirely legal) gun ownership, she got mad.

She also got a new doctor.

In fact, the problem of anti-gun advocacy in the examining room has become so widespread that some states are considering legislation to stop it.

Last year, my 7-year-old was asked about my guns during his physical examination. He promptly announced to the doctor that his father is the proud owner of a laser sighted plasma rifle perfect for destroying Throggs.

At least as of this writing, no police report has been filed.

“I still like my previous pediatrician,” Debbie told me. “She seemed embarrassed to ask the gun questions and apologized afterward. But she didn’t seem to have a choice.”

Of course doctors have a choice.

They could choose, for example, to ask me about my drunken revels, and not my children.

They could choose not to put my children in this terrible position.

They could choose, even here in Massachusetts, to leave their politics out of the office.

But the doctors aren’t asking us parents.

They’re asking our kids.

Worst of all, they’re asking all kids about sexual abuse without any provocation or probable cause.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has declared all parents guilty until proven innocent.

And then they wonder why we drink.

Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opi...icleid=1035832

[P95Carry]

The American Academy of Pediatrics has declared all parents guilty until proven innocent.

Sometimes seems that within much of med profession - way too many deep probing questions many of which are inhently privacy-attacking. Going at it thru the kids is obscene.

I am glad all my kids are long grown up - and glad too my doc is one who carries. If he were not I sure would not answer personally any questions directed at my guns, or come to that - my chosen recreational habits at home.

Society is sagging - ever more.

[dnar]

Well then, I guess if the parents drink alcohol, toke or swing naked from the chandeliers while clutching a Ruger, they should tell their children not to say anything about their wild lifestyle to the family doctor. LOL

rand

P.S. Great article, JayBell!

[cas]

Yea it is no secret anymore that the kids in the public "schools" are being taught to tell about their parents guns, habits etc.

[KeithPA]

Take a page straight from 1984. That's like word for word out of the book.

Great find Jaybell!

[RocketFoot]

Yep...you think thats bad, just imagine what they are probing our kids about in the school systems! Private schools are just as bad as public schools, too!

[XD45]

this is why i lock my kids in their rooms when i get drunk, start loading my guns and doing some heroween

[markheck1]

i just lock the boy in the closet with a pizza and a six-pack....I figure if he's doing it, he can't tell on me......

Seriously, though......what happened to Privacy? What happened to a Free Country?

I appreciate what they are trying to do, keeping kids safe from abuse, and such, but Man sometimes we give up too much freedom for false security.

Kinda like telling your doctor you have 3 or 4 beers a night....they file police report...bye bye Drivers License....

[NineseveN]

Larger thread about pretty much the same subject here:
http://www.pafoa.org/forum/general-2...t-weapons.html

[Michele]

Great find! Great reading!
Its not only the doctors, its the schools, the coaches, and the neighbors.

I'ts comforting to know that the doctors have never had a drink, the teachers have never had sex, the coaches have never helped a kid with his uniform, and the neighbors don't have guns.
Sounds to me like sainthood.

Would it be in bad taste to tell these people to go F themselves?
Is protecting your own child from grilling adults illegal too?
What happened to watching and raising your own kid?
Too many listening to Hillary with that bullshit "it takes a village to raise a child".
UH, NO, IT DOES NOT!!!!!!

Great article JayBell!