Poll: 12 year old girl wins case against dear old Dad for grounding...

[LewsTherin]

right to be honest all you people screaming about the 'tyrant girl' doing this, it was most probably the mother who hired the lawyer and not the 12 year old girl.

Aye, I don't think that a little girl could pay a lawyer, anyhow. If there was a custody battle going on at the time...

 

[MrNixon21]

But really... american law is a fucking joke.

actually, the initial post and subsequent article indicate it was a court in Quebec, which is canada . . .

 

[McNinja]

Good Lord this is rediculous. If this were my kid, I would send them off to the other parents house and not let the kid back into my house. Why? Because the kid now knows that within the confines of [b/]MY[/b] house, SHE does NOT have to obey [b/]MY[/b] rules because she now knows that I don't have the power to tell her what to do.

You are jumping to conclusions. We don't know she knows that--it's possible she thought her father went too far this one time.

Also, when you have a kid, it stops being YOUR house. Don't want to share? Don't have kids--it's as simple as that.

Finally, I think it's pretty fucked up the idea that parents get to make rules because they own the house--parents get to make rules because parents are the ones in charge of raising their kids. Whether in a mansion or a refugee camp, parental authority flows from the duty the parent has towards the kid to take care of them.

And Cheeze_Pavillion, kids cost lots and lots of money, and lots and lots of time, and lots and lots of energy. You put a roof over their head, feed them, attempt to raise them well, and they turn around and SUE YOU (which probably cost thousands of dollars in court costs, escpecially with all the appeals) for a simple little discpliary action.

Um, so? Money/time/energy do not necessarily make a good parent.

That's true. But this girl showed a complete lack of respect for anything her father has ever done for her.

Well, actually, the parents do own the house, the kid only lives there. It never stops being [b/]MY[/b] house. Some else just moves in with me. They don't pay for anything. The kid just lives their life inside their parents house until they move out. Parents house, Parents rules. How would you like it if someone in your house, to whom you showed nothing but love and support, disrespects everything you have ever done for them by SUING you? Parental authority flows from the duty of the parents to do what THEY think is right for their kids, because THEY are responsible for the kid and the kids actions. and because THEY had her and without them the kid would be almost literally nothing.

 

[letsnoobtehpwns]

I heard about this case. I remember hearing that the girl took naked pictures of herself and posted them online. That's why she was grounded.

 

[McNinja]

Naked pictures? Wow that girl is a slut. And at twelve... geeze. I wouldn't have just restricted that site, I would have not let her on the computer. At all. I would've made another account she didn't know the password to and then changed the password of her account so she couldn't get on.

 

[McNinja]

Are you a parent, Cheeze? The father gave and gave, the child only took and took and took pictures of herself (nude, no less) and posted them on the internet. Then she sues her father when he tries to be a proper parent by disciplining her.

EDIT:Upon further consideration, probably shoulda just edited my last post

 

[Archereus]

Even if the father didn't have any authority on the daughter she was under his roof. Like honnestly i been grounded at friend's houses, did i complain? Hell no, its their houses rule's no my own. If i do some thing wrong i will happily pay the price but that is way to far

 

[Weaver]

*tries not to make a joke about Quebec*

 

[bitzi61]

Don't worry about it being in Canada. It was in Quebec. Enough said.
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[McNinja]

Are you a parent, Cheeze? The father gave and gave, the child only took and took and took pictures of herself (nude, no less) and posted them on the internet. Then she sues her father when he tries to be a proper parent by disciplining her.

EDIT:Upon further consideration, probably shoulda just edited my last post

According to what I've read, she sues to find out if he's being a proper parent in the first place--in fact, she sues to resolve a conflict between her parents in handling her discipline, in a situation where the father can exercise a veto-like power (by not signing the school's permission for or however he failed to give his consent) that he simply does not legally have.

Naked pictures? Wow that girl is a slut. And at twelve... geeze. I wouldn't have just restricted that site, I would have not let her on the computer. At all. I would've made another account she didn't know the password to and then changed the password of her account so she couldn't get on.

Speaking of a lack of respect, talk about a lack of respect for women, calling them 'sluts'.

Well, what do you call a girl who clearly has no respect for herself and hence puts pictures of her naked body on the internet? Definitly not an upstanding citizen of Quebec.

And way to make a gross generalization. I never at any point said all women were sluts. I simply stated that this girl was one. I have plenty of respect for women. Just not for ones that do what she did.

 

[DerpyDerpyDerp]

I would just give up the court battle and custody and let the mother deal with her shit. God, some kids can be so ludicrous sometimes.

 

[stompy]

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Oh, alright, thanks. Still, all-in-all, it's a retarded precedent to set, and it's on the flimsiest of grounds... you can sue for just about anything with 'emotional damage' or 'emotional trauma'. Not saying they aren't valid reasons, but people use them too readily, even when it's bullshit.

Hopefully this gets appealed in the highest Canadian court. If not, then it's a deadly precedent...

 

[Squid1361]

I'm sorry, I think the whole American legal system is a piece of garbage.
The whole "sue" business benefits NOBODY BUT LAWYERS

For example...A small family owned resteraunt was closed because of a lawsuit filed aginst them for not catering to the handicapped. The cause...the toilet paper dispenser in the lavatory was 1/2 an inch (bout a centimeter) too high. THEY WERE CLOSED BECAUSE OF A F#@!ING LAWYER!!!

other popular ones...
McDonalds sued because idiot lady spills coffee...
Man sues McDonalds for making him fat (luckily this one got thrown out)
Apple records (did the Beatles) sued Apple Computers because they had the same name.
etc. etc.

 

[johnman]

This is so retarded im not going to comment on it