As a kid growing up, I know that it is hard to be a child. Growing up in a suburban town and living through it all, I've lived through having tantrums, rebellion, running away, blame and shame, and through a difficult intergenerational and intercultural gap (on top of being a Black-American born in Rochester). I also know that it's hard for parents to parent sometimes, often resorting to anger in some cases. But at the same time, it is appalling to know the system underestimates the power of a parent/child bond and puts strain and mayhem on parents who mean well - resulting in troubled and abused teenagers. Today, especially in child welfare and educational systems, Parental Rights are being tampered and children are often destroyed of their maximum potential. Worse yet, what is once the assumption of strangers and certain families abusing children now occurs in every institutional sector and domain in every community.

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Every child deserves to be protected, every adult guardian in every family deserves to raise their children without interference from the government (provided that children are not abused), and every child that turns 18 should be given the rights and responsibilities as any other adult that is decades older than them.

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When elected, I will:

• Create legislation to protect the rights of parents

• Reforming Education for all children through choice (Grand Education Reform), and use the power of Education Choice for extracurriculars such as summer camps, enrichment courses, career 

• Ending mandatory vaccinations and treatments on minors without parental consent

• Outlawing top surgery and other life-altering treatments on minors

• Ending state control over parents and legal kidnapping loopholes

• Giving low-income families the tools and resources to home educate, 

• Reforming Labor Laws that allows persons from 12 - 17 to gain real life creative experiences while protecting them from harm, including allowing employers to have their own educational environments within the company.

• Equalizing the age restriction (in other words, the child-to-adult) threshold to 18 (this includes age of majority, age of sexual consent, marriageable age, drinking age, smoking age, and car renting age, among other activities that is designated only for adults). The equalizing of the age threshold will also apply to states that have in-state age restrictions such as purchasing guns. Additionally, reform for newly legal adults will also consist of ending systematic discrimination and allowing 18-year-olds to start fresh with the highest credit score rating. With the advent of Uber and other advances, the age of 21 for drinking and smoking is unequal, places younger adults as equal to a second class citizen, and is out of line with the current times. Lowering the drinking and smoking age will not only benefit young adults and families, but will economically benefit the Rochester area with it's young adult population attending college and trade classes, and will benefit other major cities and college towns across the country (ending the complication for which an 18-20 year old would go to Canada or Mexico for such a drink and instead being in line with the Canadian Provinces and Mexican States).

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