Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Social Work
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Practice of Social Work [18 VAC 140 ‑ 20]
Action Unprofessional conduct/practice of conversion therapy
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 8/7/2019
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7/26/19  2:05 pm
Commenter: Kieran Carter

Parental rights to obtain sexual counseling for their minor children
 

Parents, not social workers, teachers or a state entity, know what is best to help their children grow into happy and healthy adults.  The proposed regulations to ban the so-called "conversion therapy"  are a hideous overreach of government power and a blatantly unconstitutional curtailment of free speech.  In recent years there has been a disturbing trend for government and bureaucrats to assume and spread the idea that THEY know better than families what is best. Individual children and teenagers need individualized help, not an agenda-driven push from agenda-driven teachers and social workers.  Parental decision-making is a bedrock right.  NO to any regulations telling people what help they can and cannot provide to a struggling child.

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