To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate

Safeguarding the rights of parents of Deaf children

Parents who are hearing and Deaf are being forced by biased local courts to make their deaf children hard of hearing with cochlear implants. Implants are an elective surgery and do not always work the same for everyone. This petition would guard the rights of those parents from having their legal custody taken away in custody disputes. Language can be learned by means of sign language like American Sign Language and children should have the right to choose how to learn language as well as each parent in their life have the choice how to teach them.

Why is this important?

Deafness is a non life threatening occurance. Parents should not be required by biased courts to force their children to wear hearing aids or cochlear implants one of which is elective surgery. Parental rights should never be taken away based on the idea that oral learning is the ONLY way to acquire language. Sign language is as viable a way to learn about the world as any oral language. Stop forcing Deaf children to conform to a hearing environment if they choose not to.