Why Is the Surgeon General's Office Warning About the Mental Health of Parents

A new advisory from the Surgeon General pushes a dark narrative about American parents

The Surgeon General’s office wants Americans to know parenting is causing a mental health crisis.

The office issued and advisory last week called “Parents Under Pressure.” It outlines the various forms and consequences of the stress of caring for families.

Parenting is indeed stressful, but stressful enough to warrant an advisory for the U.S. Surgeon General? Why would they feel moved to give us this now?

I declined to read all 36 pages of the report, but thankfully they offered a bullet point summary on ways to address the mental health crisis of sustaining the future of humanity.

screenshot: Parental Health & Well Being website, U.S. Surgeon General’s Office

I found a couple of interesting sentences that I think give us a clue as to the intent of our esteemed medical bureaucracy.

Under the recommendations for “Health and Social Service Systems and Professionals,” number 2 says, “Screen parents and caregivers for mental health conditions.”

It makes me wonder…who should do the screening? And where? And when? And who decides which parents need to be screened? And what are the consequences for the children of parents who are screened and found mentally unfit by whatever measurements are adopted?

Under the “Researchers” bullet point, the summary gives us some clues how to answer some of these questions.

1. Conduct studies to better understand, prevent and improve mental health conditions in parents and caregivers.

Bullet point number 1 tells researchers, “Conduct studies to better understand, prevent and improve mental health conditions in parents and caregivers.” This gave me a bit of a shiver because I happen to know those studies are already being conducted in our public schools across the country right now. Every semester here in California, high school students are required to fill out “healthy kids and families” surveys that ask them all kinds of personal and probing questions about sexual identity, family life and whether or not their parents can be trusted. A survey given to some students in my own local high school allegedly asked students for their pronouns and preferred names, and then proceeded to ask if the teachers can share those names and pronouns with students’ parents.

It doesn’t seem like a giant leap to a place where parents and caregivers are subjected to state intervention based on the “studies” being conducted through public school surveys like the ones we suffer through here in California. And here is the Surgeon General’s office openly advocating for collecting data about the mental health of parents.

The second bullet point is a bit creepier. “Develop and establish parent-specific standardized measures of mental health and well-being.” This sounds like a direct advocation for measuring the mental health of parents differently than everyone else. Would it be so hard to imagine that one day non-adherence to gender ideology or critical race theory could be labeled as a mental health issue in parents? It’s already practically the law here in California, and there have been several disturbing cases in various states of the government removing children from the homes of families who refuse to bend to their child’s gender dysphoria. Once again, this is our Surgeon General’s office normalizing and informally codifying the notion that parents are a particular kind of crazy and therefore require more sensitive measurements.

I don’t like where this is going one bit.

Point number 3 raises my hairs simply because it encourages more data collection on parents. Where does that data come from and how will it be used? One can only speculate at this point. Given that the National School Board Association sent a letter to the White House calling anti-mask, pro-open-schools parents “domestic terrorists,” and the FBI was caught keeping tabs on some activist parents, it’s a good guess that a lot of this data would come directly from the public school system, aided by the eager junior tyrants that make up America’s public school monopoly.

Wouldn’t the FBI just love to have the power to declare certain parents mentally unstable? Based on “parent-specific” measurements, of course.

No thank you to all of this.

This may seem like a harmless “advisory” but all of this is designed to paint parents as potential enemies, people who need to be monitored and brought into line if they step out. And keep in mind that this is now an official government position. It’s on the record.

How much further does it have to travel before it becomes the law of the land and parents are enemies of the government for good?