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Sam Kerr’s female fiancée, Kristie Mewis, recently took to social media to announce the birth of her baby boy, Jagger. But there’s something vitally important missing – the father. Children have a biological birthright to be raised by their mother and a father, to the maximum extent possible.

Is it “vile” to observe that a child, wherever possible, deserves the love of both a mother and a father?

It seems so in this post-same-sex marriage world.

Recently, Family First made the decision to speak up for the rights of the child against a culture that no longer cares for our most vulnerable.

Matilda’s captain, Sam Kerr, and her fiancée, Kristie Mewis, took to social media to announce the birth of Mewis’s baby boy, Jagger.

Kerr and Mewis plan to raise Jagger as if he was a product of their couple relationship.

Sadly, Jagger’s Dad does not feature in the couple’s Instagram post announcing Jagger’s arrival.

News Corp Calls Lyle “Vile”

Rupert Murdoch’s News.com.au website slammed me as “vile” for pointing out the rights of the child when it comes to same-sex couples like Kerr and Mewis depriving their child of his Dad.

I wrote on behalf of Family First on the party’s blog and social media platform,

“No child should be deliberately deprived of their father. Children aren’t lifestyle accessories – they’re human beings with rights.”

“When the cultural elites cheer on choices that sideline dads, who’s left standing for the child?”

Instead of engaging with this point, Murdoch journalist Ben Talintyre called me a politician (I might aspire to be one, but currently I’m not) and slammed me as “vile”.

Talintyre could have mounted an argument about why fathers and mothers are unnecessary when it comes to same-sex parenting, but chose demonisation over debate.

So much for objective journalism. It’s another reason why people no longer trust the legacy media, and many are leaving it.

Talintyre then wrote: “Shelton was unsurprisingly one of the leading voices of the ‘No’ campaign against same-sex marriage in Australia in 2017”.

So what?

But in Talintyre’s worldview, my involvement in the ‘No’ campaign is enough to explain why my views are “vile”.

Children’s Rights and Biological Parents

If Talintyre exercised some journalist curiosity, he might have discovered that people like me warned that children would lose rights under same-sex marriage law.

He might have discovered that this was repeatedly denied by the leaders of the ‘Yes’ campaign.

Love is love, they said. The idea of “consequences” was a red herring, the likes of Alex Greenwich, Christine Forster and Anna Brown said.

Whether it is Sam Kerr celebrating fatherlessness or newly re-elected Liberal Tim Wilson pushing for commercial surrogacy to be legalised so homosexual men can rent wombs and buy babies, Family First will always stand up for the rights of the child.

A society that does not speak for the voiceless ceases any claim of being a civil society.

Family First is pleased to see pushback on the LGBTIQA+ political agenda with Alliance for Responsible Citizenship founder Jordan Peterson arguing for public policy to again preference the monogamous, heterosexual married couple.

Until politicians have the courage to take this up, kids’ rights will continue to come second.

Extra: A Child’s Biological Birth Right to Both Parents

Them Before Us is the name of a breakthrough book about the need for a global children’s rights movement written by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning.

John Anderson has recently released a long-form interview called “Putting Children First” with Faust and Manning, the co-authors of Them Before Us. He writes,

Children have unique rights based on their particular situation and vulnerabilities. The key right for children is, when possible, to be raised by their biological mother and father in a loving but stable household.

Why do children have this right? Simply because we know that such an environment is most likely to bring about their long-term flourishing; or, put negatively, the deprivation of this is most likely to lead to their long-term detriment.

As a Princeton University and Brookings Institute report said, “most scholars now agree that children raised by two biological parents in a stable marriage do better than children in other family forms across a wide range of outcomes.”

Watch this short video excerpt called “Fatherhood and Healthy Masculinity”:

Watch the full interview here:

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Originally published at Family First as “Sorry Mr Murdoch, it’s not “vile” to speak up for kids’ rights”. Image via Instagram/Sam Kerr/Kristie Mewis.