Do parental rights exist (why they are earned)?

Many parents think they have rights. As a default statement, you have no rights as a parents, only duties towards your children. However, parents can earn rights in relation to their child, but they have to work the system, and recover from their parent flaws.

Parental rights isn't a system of existent rights, but earned rights. You earn your right to your children by way of following a content of custody. America is a Christian nation, and thus the Bible is America's book. We are a nation founded on Judeo-Christian family values. The Bible is clear - parental rights is trust in parents, and that is earned. God's context of child custody is stated in Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well-pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to secure, vulnerable rest and trust, with parents sacrificing for their child, in the spirit that Christ sacrificed for His children; with parents taking up the cross, in the spirit that Christ sacrificed for His children; with parents martyring themselves in everything...with children then resting in the love and grace of parents, with children showing gratitude and thanksgiving by emulating the example and instruction of parents. Children owe nothing to parents, and parents owe everything to children, deserving nothing in return from children. Respect in parenting is earned, as per the Fifth Commandment, meaning children should respect their parents, but when they don't, it is the fault of the parents, not the child. The Greek root word υπακουο ultimately uplifts an attachment parenting context that allowed for closeness to the level of nudity. Child nudity was legal and acceptable everywhere, and this was for children to be held close in skin-to-skin contact, as mothers were also unclothed when in the home.

The Greek root word translates "parents" is γονεύς (Latin: goneus) and refers to a leader, not an authority figure, meaning parents were mere caregivers to their children, attendant to the every need of children. Parenthood was seen then as martyrdom, meaning sacrifice for one's child, where parents were praised for having discipline and self-restraint in parenting. The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and literally translates to "stirring up" upset and resentment in a child, namely the Jewish adage "stirring the pot" regarding the emotional well-being of one's child, referring to a ban on all physical and mental punishment under Jewish law, and then Christian church ordinance. Basically, the slightest of personal slights perceived by the child is child abuse, thus a moral crime, thus sin. This commandment uplifted existing law in order to crack down on physical and mental punishment, including corporal punishment, which was Greco-Roman custom. Judaeo-Christian parenting custody instead favored attachment parenting, which is what parenting manuals taught Christian parents. These manuals were exhaustive, with pedophilia and attraction to children being seen as a part of parenting, but a part to struggle against. Fathers were charged to channel lusts away from children, into their own self-awareness. Pedophilia was a common parenting struggle in ancient times. Acting on it was seen as deserving of death "even if Christ abolished the death penalty by enduring it". However, pedophilia was an open struggle in the Early Christian church communities, not a closeted one.

When you choose not to provoke children to anger, and instead treat them with respect, you have earned parental rights. If you speak to one child, that opinion counts, but only for them. Ask two and get the same answer, maybe there is something about you that they like. Ask all of them, and they all think you are safe, and are not coached by anyone to say that, you are a good adult, but not until you pass that test. This is direct admission of entitlement to children, turning oneself into children...and then parents earn their rights. Children have removed your rights as a parent or caregiver, and in order to earn them back, you need to treat children with respect, and not abuse them by their perceptions. 

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them burn in the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!