If you had suggested 20 years ago that several states in the US would be allowing men to marry each other, people would have thought you a reactionary crank. There was no way that could happen. However, as the old song says, these days, anything goes.
On with the story. A father decided to ground his daughter and keep her from an end-of-the-year field trip because she disobeyed him. She sued him and the court overturned his parental decision.
A father in Canada grounded his daughter from a school trip because she disobeyed his orders to stay off the Internet, but a court overturned the punishment.Fantastic. It's a brave, new world.
According to Agence France-Presse, Justice Suzanne Tessier in Quebec Superior Court ordered the grounding for the 12-year-old girl lifted...
The father had ordered his daughter, who was not identified by the report, to remain off the Internet. She didn't, chatting on websites her father had tried to block and then posting "inappropriate" pictures of herself online using a friend's Internet portal.
As punishment, the father refused to let her go on a scheduled school trip, so the 12-year-old went to Canada's judicial system to get her way.
This is great. So I guess in Canada, parents need to consult with their childrens lawyers while they try to instruct/disciple them?
ReplyDeleteConsider this, pretend that while this girl is out, when she should have been grounded, she gets pregnant. Would the judge have to deal with it or would the dad?
I was stunned when I saw this. At first I thought it was a joke, but unfortunately its not.
ReplyDeleteAnd why, pray tell, does he still HAVE internet for her to use? If this happened to me - the internet service would be cancelled and the computer would be in the dump.
ReplyDeleteWell, maybe, that might be punishing ME more than her, but....