Proposed Bill for Congress

Seeking Privileges of Humanity for Mature Teens with Alienated Affections to Relatives Due to Their Family’s Dysfunction
(The Mott Men Act)

Section 1. Family Reunification for Teens.

This Act may be cited as “Privileges of Humanity for Mature Teens with Alienated Affections to Relatives due to their Family’s dysfunction”.

Section 2. To prevent the development of sociopathic and apathetic tendencies or other self destructive behaviors we are seeing in our youths in these recent years.  
This Bill is designed to allow mature youths that have entered their teen years to exercise their privileges of humanity--- they can speak. They should not continue to bear the heartache of believing whatever lies they may have been told. Alienating them from all those they knew from their earliest years (Mom, Dad, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, etc) often serves to accommodate the agenda of the custodial individual while being less than advantageous to the child’s development. They learn truths about the history of their Schools, City, State, Country, World, and the Universe; they should also be given an opportunity to know their family’s history before they become adults which may be too late to prevent the development of sociopathic and apathetic tendencies or other self destructive behaviors we are seeing in our youths in these recent years.  This Bill is an attempt to allow youths to affect the disregard for their inherent and basic rights displayed by their families’ choices on their behalves. 
The hurt, frustration, and helplessness that our youths are experiencing due to the aforementioned  is a direct indication of what youths are suffering leading them to commit heinous and unthinkable sociopathic acts (then we exercise the strong arm of the law against them and charge them as adults while calling ‘monsters’).  Maybe this Bill can offset the potential negative behaviors   we see in our youths as they grow older with broader  boundaries, less supervision, increased access to monetary resources affording them greater  access to mind-altering substances increasing the likelihood of their making   poor life choices under the influence or  because of their early experience with catastrophic life changing events before they were able to acquire coping skills, a sound foundation, and all the other benefits of being raised in a home environment where those making decisions on their behalves was altruistic and selfless giving deference to what will help them (the children) develop into strong, confident young conscientious people; future pillars of their communities or leaders  in America.  This Bill will give teenagers an option and an opportunity to “have a say” and affect their own posterity.  
Young children before they reach their teen years can see this as an attainable option (making them feel less helpless ,  powerless, and a need to be apathetic)  as motivational and inspiring knowing that they do not have to wait until they are 18 years old (children are maturing and making  very serious life altering decisions a lot earlier now than did those a decade or so ago and our laws should evolve to reflect their maturity) to be able to reconnect with those they have been denied due to family strife; this could potentially reduce teen frustration and the negative behaviors that accompany it such as violence, binging, and gravitation toward mind altering substances (alcohol, marijuana, and the like). 
 
Section 3. Reconnecting with estranged family members can be done utilizing modern technology such as Skype, Video Conferencing, Emails, Texts, etc.	

•	Teens that are products of broken homes will be provided information through independent counsel regarding the options available to them to reconnect with alienated family members. Depending upon the situation reconnecting with estranged family can be done utilizing modern technology such as Skype, Video Conferencing, Emails, Texts, etc.

•	This Bill is designed to be offered to youths 15 years and older; however, younger siblings may also be granted a waiver to be reunited with the alienated if the oldest youngster expresses the desire to reconnect. It can be inferred that younger ones will be inclined to make a similar decision when they reach the age of 15 and hence, this privilege of humanity can be granted to them sooner than later based on the action of the oldest child.

•	Teens do not need permission of the current parent or guardian to initiate action on their behalves through social services system or other entities designed to protect their rights and interests.

Section 4. The new fangled social norms that are acceptable and contribute to adult pleasures and the happiness adults seek profoundly and exponentially contribute to the remorse, sadness, challenges, and emotional instability of our youth.

•	When 2 generations of parents (parents and grandparents) have failed to keep their own families intact or demonstrate healthy family patterns they do NOT have the skill set to help their children (the 3rd  generation) do better for the 4th generation. Children and ultimately our society are very much impacted by these failed families. In effort to attempt to reduce and minimize the damage we can allow teens to begin to reconnect with those they have been estranged from due to their parents’ failed efforts to keep the family intact. This can help youths to begin sooner than later to begin to heal from the damages of their parents’ choices.

•	The present guardian would be prohibited from interfering with the youth’s choices regarding their estranged family member(s).  Children will be psychologically evaluated for developmental, behavioral, and psychological sequelae associated with the alienation of affections for the estranged family member and for battered child’s syndrome due to the relationship and history the children has had with their present guardian. Professionals who evaluated the children will make a recommendation on the type of initial contact that is most suitable based on the teen’s age, maturity, vulnerability, comfort, requests, and any other considerations of significance to promote successful reunification of these family members.   

•	Many of today’s youths do not benefit from the paternal altruism afforded to the youths of our yester-years and laws should be adjusted to accommodate these changes.  Families are broken and children are maturing earlier, this Bill will allow teens that are victims of these social norms to be able to have a voice and feel less powerless in affecting those critically important relationships that have become estranged due to the failed adult relationships. 

Section 5. Strategies to protect society from the wiles of the undiagnosed mentally ill (the provokers, catalyst, and inciters of catastrophe). Distinctions should be made between types of victims (ie innocent victims and self-made victims).

•	Innocent victims are persons who become harmed absent having done anything to provoke the perpetrator; it is they who should be given full rights, privileges, and protections under ‘victims rights’ laws that are presently in place.  Victims ipse vitium (self-made victims) who became a victim by purposely and willingly engaging in activity with or against the perpetrator based on their own inspirations or lack thereof. These people should not have the same rights, privileges, and protections as the innocent victim. The reality being, that absent the behavior of the victim(s) ipse vitium with or against the perpetrator, the act causing them harm would not have occurred.

•	At any time circumstances change the victim(s) ipse vitium can indeed file/sue for protection under the victims rights statutes that protects innocent victims. This proposal is designed to protect provoked perpetrators. America is the ‘land of the free and the home of the brave’ (the Star Spangled Banner); as such it is unrealistic to suppose that there are many amongst us (especially those of us that have been trained to be warriors for our nation) that when we, our posterity, our freedoms, or our way of life is threatened by those victim(s) ipse vitium living amongst us are likely to just ignore the threat and allow it to proceed uninterrupted.  Many Americans have been punished (arrested, jailed, etc) for responding to the provocations of these s victim(s) ipse vitium. If our Politicians aims are truly to reduce violence, we cannot ignore the perpetrations of these pseudo-victims. Provoked perpetrators plead for protections too under the law from the wiles of these victim(s) ipse vitium. Without protections under the law catastrophe is imminent as the provoked will have little alternative but to affect their own lives and that of their posterity in lieu of allowing victim(s) ipse vitium to do so uncontested.

•	The reflections regarding this proposal is that we live in a civil society thus people that break the law should be punished by the laws of the land; however, this is NOT ‘justice served’ (as the person was provoked) and the distinctions should be made in effort to reduce the initial violence, recidivism. Some Americans have become felons due to illegal acts performed while affecting their posterity or ‘defending the values that makes this nation great ‘(Army R.O.T.C. Cadet Creed).