Court quashes dad's grounding of 12-year-old daughter: "A father plans to appeal after a Quebec court ruled that he didn't have the right to punish his 12-year-old daughter by banning her from a school trip."The ability to guide children, directing them from the harms of life and teaching them the right path is certainly the parent's job and when the parent is incapable of this I can see the courts or a CAS agency step in, but this is utterly ridiculous!
What becomes more damaging is that the father, who has custody was not supported in role by the courts as the child then opted to live with her mother, thereby removing her from his ability to ground her. The judge said "there was no reason for the punishment to stand, since the girl was now living with her mother, even though the father has custody." This undermines the parental right to dicipline the daughter, if the mother doesn't have the maturity to forbid the change of custody, the courts should have at least realized this child was setting the family up for future control issues.
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this just reflects more abuse, and how rampant it is in the family court system in this country. question to me is, would this judge rule the same if the disiplining parent was the mother?
its blatant gender bias is what it is.
the family courts can overrule parents and be held completely unaccountable for their actions and blatent abuse of power.
yet noone can see that yes this can be a definate set up for future family disruption and manipulation. hardly a direction for a young impressionable child to take in the eyes of any caring, loving parent.
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