Did you catch this news item? What do you think, coming to a courthouse near you soon?
Maybe not soon, but can anyone seriously argue that this is not the trajectory our society is headed on?
Un-freaking-believable… or not. My heart goes out to the dad, big time.
Excerpts:
“A 12-year-old Quebec girl who felt so strongly about her end-of-year school trip that she took her father to court after he forbade her from going is at the center of a case that challenges the authority of parental discipline.
The extreme measure of taking the case to court, which the girl’s lawyer defended as a necessary move to ensure the child was not denied a significant rite of passage, was upheld by the judge in a surprise ruling last week.”
Now, the child didn’t think this up and act on her own- oh no…
“The girl’s mother allowed her to go on the trip, but because the school wouldn’t allow the girl to go unless both parents consented, the girl, with the mother’s support took legal action against her father.”
A vindictive, non-custodial mother is using the girl in a shameful game of “payback” at the dad. A wiser judge would have seen that, tossed out the lawsuit, rebuked the mother and warned her that further sanctions could be imposed if such shenanigans were ever attempted again.
“The father, who is appealing the decision, was “devastated” by the ruling, and is refusing to take his daughter back “because he has no authority over her.” [End]
No kidding. Now I can imagine the mother petitioning the court to force him to take the daughter back, to “fulfill his legal, custodial obligations”, and thereby compel him to house, feed, and clothe a child (and to provide whatever she wants) ,a child over whom he has no authority to exert any effective discipline or correction.
I said my heart goes out to the dad, but also to the little girl… this is a perfect blueprint for a disastrous, unhappy life.
Lord have mercy.
Filed under: Courts, Culture, Family, Liberalism, Life, Schools
My teenage son and I (Orthodox in AK) were throughly disgusted at the crazy judge’s decision. How can we ask people, and especially fathers, to parent their children if society constantly undermines parental authority especially the authority of the father! ? !
Yes, it is a moral obscenity. I heard that some supporters were objecting that too much was being made of it, that it was “obviously” a unique set of circumstances that was not repeatable. Oh really? How could they possibly be so sure of that? If the argument is that such-and-such discipline would cause emotional harm (the trauma of not getting one’s own way, of not getting something you really, really, riiiiilly WANT and just HAVE to HAVE!) then how could any humane court of a humane society refuse to intervene to prevent such inhumane harm? Lord have mercy!