Thank God this happened in Canada. But it’s sure to happen here soon. Let’s just hope that US Courts are not as dumb.
A Canadian court has lifted a 12-year-old girl’s grounding, overturning her father’s punishment for disobeying his orders to stay off the Internet, his lawyer said Wednesday.
The girl had taken her father to Quebec Superior Court after he refused to allow her to go on a school trip for chatting on websites he tried to block, and then posting “inappropriate” pictures of herself online using a friend’s computer.
You HAVE to be kidding me. The question is – how did this case even make it into a courtroom? In the US, parents that take a hand or a belt to a kid’s ass are subjected to a new, alarming scrutiny as the government attempts to assert itself into the realm of child-rearing. But this didn’t even involve corporal punishment.
According to court documents, the girl’s Internet transgression was just the latest in a string of broken house rules. Even so, Justice Suzanne Tessier found her punishment too severe.
Too severe??? I would argue that it probably wasn’t severe enough. I’d love to hear from our “resident mom,” airforcewife, on this one. I’m probably just arguing from the perspective of someone whose butt was blistered many a time growing up. I can honestly say that I’m glad my parents were able to exercise that option. It made me a better person.
steveflesher
Philip
Mel Maguire
Mark Ciavola
