The legal standard under the UNCRC is the "best interests of the child." In other words, the state has the authority to determine how children should be raised and educated.

UN Treaty Used to Threaten Home school Families

By Christian Newswire
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

PURCELLVILLE, Va., —This week the fate of four homeschooling families will be decided in Botswana. The families, adherents to the Seventh Day Adventist Church, have been ordered by a judge to send their children to public school.

Despite the judges’ findings indicating that the children were cared for and that the parents took steps to provide for the education of their children, they still need to go to public school because Botswana has acceded to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The legal standard under the UNCRC is the “best interests of the child.â€