Blair Adams wrote: WHO OWNS THE CHILDREN? (subtitled "Public Compulsion, Private Responsibility, and the Dilemma of Ultimate Authority," Waco, Texas: Truth Forum, 1991, Fifth edition). The author examines some of the court cases and legal precedents that shed light on this important question. In his "Preface" he writes:  [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)"  http://voluntaryist.com/backissues/059.pdf In Black's Law Dictionary look up Parens Patriae. Parens Patriae means literally, “parent of the country.” It refers traditionally to the role of STATE as sovereign and guardian of persons under legal disability. With the birth registration established, the federal government, under the doctrine of Parens Patriae, had the mechanism to take over all the assets of the American people and put them into debt into perpetuity. Under this doctrine, if one is born with a disability, the state, (the sovereign) has the responsibility to take care of you. This author believes that the disability you are born with is, in fact, the birth itself. Actual court cases and contexts in which these judicial statements were made have long set the precedent for this. These evil purveyors simply want to keep you ignorant of what has long ago been decided in smoke-filled back rooms. If the public was ever told the truth, they would be rioting in the streets. And you didn't know about all of this?