In the ongoing war for the hearts and minds of America’s children, the left has unveiled its newest and most brazen weapon yet: Parents are the “oppressors” and children must be “liberated” from the “oppression.”

Under the banner of “ethnic studies” and the new buzzword “adultism,” teacher training programs and classroom curricula across more than 22 states are systematically teaching that parental authority is a form of oppression—tyranny, fascism, even.

Loving mothers and fathers who set boundaries on clothing, relationships, sexual activity, or medical decisions involving their own children are literally being cast as oppressors. In typical Marxist style, the “oppressed” — the children — are being groomed to rebel.
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In teacher trainings now being exposed, “adultism” is presented as a force of oppression. As Streit explained, when an adult behaves like an adult — telling a child not to dress provocatively, not to engage in sex at a young age, or not to pursue experimental gender interventions — the parent is supposedly committing adultism.

One passage from the training text states: “Adultism teaches us that adults have the power and the right to decide what young people’s boundaries should be.” The clear implication is that this power and right must be rejected.
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This ideology stands in direct, irreconcilable conflict with biblical and traditional American values. Scripture is unambiguous: parents, not the state or activist educators, bear the primary responsibility for raising children.
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Indeed, the family is the first and most important government ordained by God.

Traditional Western civilization — and all civilized societies — recognize that children are not autonomous agents of revolution but immature souls requiring guidance, protection, and moral formation. To label that guidance “tyranny” is to invert the created order and echo the serpent’s ancient lie: you shall be as gods, deciding good and evil for yourselves.