I was trawling the net the other day, looking for parental abuse cases (don't ask why, you REALLY don't want to know) and came across a true gem.
A pair of children sue their mother for "bad mothering." Now you know that is a headline you simply gotta click on, regardless of what you are looking for.
Of course, the headline doesn't tell the whole story. Like the fact the children are in their 20s and are represented by their father, who was divorced by their mother in 1995. Or that the "bad mothering" charges included such heinous offenses as buying a birthday card the son didn't like and failing to include cash in it, failing to buy toys or calling her daughter after midnight during homecoming to ask her to come home.
Truly, this woman is a menace to society and to children everywhere to have been pursued for two years over this!
In a rare enough display of common sense, the appeals court dismissed the case, then, I devoutly hope, the judge gave the father a good slap upside the head with his gavel and told him to stop being a complete d*ck.
There are a lot of horrific parents out there. Ones who, at the very best, ignore their children and let them run feral, or at worst have the Saturday night family routine called beat the kids into new and interesting shapes and colors.
Run a search sometime - I am not providing links to some of the saddest things you will ever read - and you will be amazed, horrified and disgusted in equal measure at some of the repulsive acts that happen when parents consider children simply a nuisance or an inconvenience.
This was not one of those times. This is, though unusual for the amount of time that has passed, an almost textbook case of using children as a weapon in divorce. Something so common, it has it's own name: Parental Alienation. And, according to Sir Nicholas Wall, the President of the Family Division of the UK High Court, something that separating couples, especially those from the middle classes, do, using their children as 'both the battlefield and the ammunition' to try to score points in their personal disputes.
A pair of children sue their mother for "bad mothering." Now you know that is a headline you simply gotta click on, regardless of what you are looking for.
Of course, the headline doesn't tell the whole story. Like the fact the children are in their 20s and are represented by their father, who was divorced by their mother in 1995. Or that the "bad mothering" charges included such heinous offenses as buying a birthday card the son didn't like and failing to include cash in it, failing to buy toys or calling her daughter after midnight during homecoming to ask her to come home.
Truly, this woman is a menace to society and to children everywhere to have been pursued for two years over this!
In a rare enough display of common sense, the appeals court dismissed the case, then, I devoutly hope, the judge gave the father a good slap upside the head with his gavel and told him to stop being a complete d*ck.
There are a lot of horrific parents out there. Ones who, at the very best, ignore their children and let them run feral, or at worst have the Saturday night family routine called beat the kids into new and interesting shapes and colors.
Run a search sometime - I am not providing links to some of the saddest things you will ever read - and you will be amazed, horrified and disgusted in equal measure at some of the repulsive acts that happen when parents consider children simply a nuisance or an inconvenience.
This was not one of those times. This is, though unusual for the amount of time that has passed, an almost textbook case of using children as a weapon in divorce. Something so common, it has it's own name: Parental Alienation. And, according to Sir Nicholas Wall, the President of the Family Division of the UK High Court, something that separating couples, especially those from the middle classes, do, using their children as 'both the battlefield and the ammunition' to try to score points in their personal disputes.
another beautifully written piece. i don't think i could have been nearly as nice as you if i was covering the topic. the sad thing is, the jholes that need to hear every single one of those words, never will. they love themselves more and always will.
God, this is almost as bad as those parents who claim sexual abuse to get custody of the kids!
Sadly Chrissie is right; the ones who most need this will not hear it and if they do, they will arrogantly insist this does not describe them.
How sad for this mother. She was probably a perfectly fine mother. Sucks that she has to pay legal fees because of this bullshit. I hope that she wipes her hands clean of these people and doesn't make room for them in her life anymore.
true dat...
Garrity [the mom] called the lawsuit nothing but harassment.
"Everything ... shows that these children, orchestrated by their father, will stop at nothing to embarrass and financially harm their mother," Smith [her lawyer] wrote in a court filing. "In the process they have embarrassed themselves and left a public record blogged about on the Internet that will shadow their every future relationship."
———(c)2011 the Chicago Tribune
"Thanks a lot, dad!" ~kids
This case is nothing compared to the one I watched from 'Judge Judy' (you should try watching an episode of the show if you haven't already, MM).
There's a case there that stuck with me ever since I watched it. It was a son who was suing his mother for the money he didn't earn when he was sick/on disability; disregarding that at the time he wasn't working, his mother was taking care of him (and buying his food and medicine and letting him stay in her place for free!). You could tell the mom was so heartbroken.
Judge Judy smacked his ass and made him pay the amount he was trying to get from the mom (and more) and called him an ungrateful bastard (and more).
I can't believe these kids/people. How do they even come up with these lawsuits?
It really shocked me and made me sad at the same time.
Judge Judy made him answer a series of questions, "Who took care of you when you were a baby? Who cooked for you when you were growing up? Who gave you medicine when you were sick?, etc." All of which he replied his mother. Then she asked him if his mother asked for him to pay for everything she did. To which he replied no. It would have been nice to strangle the guy right then and there.
Still, I feel for the mother. That must have been so painful for her knowing somewhere deep down she would be asking herself where did she go wrong raising such an ungrateful son. Then again, he's a grown ass man and I just hope she recovers from this (and that goes for Garrity too).
judge judy rocks. watch her with grandma all the time. i love it when i see deadbeats come in front of her, or entitled kids stepping up looking for an easy check, i always know she is going to smack them upside something silly.
What an ingrate! Good for Judge Judy! Even though I don't normally watch her shows unless I'm feeling really, really low lol.
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