Jay Dickey: “I have four children. All of them are boys, except for two. It is ``except for two'' that bothers me now, even though…”

“I have four children. All of them are boys, except for two. It is ``except for two'' that bothers me now, even though they are of age. They are grown. Laura and Rachel are very fine, well-adjusted kids, and I am thankful for this. Their mother and I both are. But what I see here is that the parents have all the responsibility, but our government is trying to take the authority away, so that if there is something wrong, it is the parents. But we are taking the authority away and showing no respect that the kids can give to them as parents. Look at what we do in our schools. We thrust the government in between the parent and the child. Let us say on prayer in schools, at home and in church parents who choose to do so will talk to their kids about prayer. They send them to school and the people say no, your parents may do that, but that is not correct. That is not the thing to do. We send our kids to school and we say to them, obey your teachers, obey the school officials. This is the way things are supposed to be done. The schools send the kids home and say disregard your parents. Mr. Chairman, we are in an uphill battle now as far as trying to get more values back into our Nation and we cannot do it through the government. We cannot. And the circumstance we have right now is that we have circumstances where grown adults hear from kids without the parents knowing about it. They learn of things like statutory rape, and they stay quiet.”