A Crazy Canadian Kid's Coup

Let's say you have a daughter. Your daughter, or son, has been continuously breaking home rules. Her latest infraction has been getting on the computer without permission, going to websites that you blocked, and posting inappropriate pictures of herself on the webs. Then a school trip gets mentioned...one where you need to sign your permission for her to go. So, as punishment for her intentional breach of house rules, you refuse to let her go on the trip.

BUT...

Darling daughter will not fade quietly into grounding. She actually gets a lawyer to sue her father for the right to go on thie field trip. Ok, at this point I'm wondering why any lawyer would even mess with this. I mean, surely wouldn't even be allowed to take up court time. But alas, it gets taken to court. But surely no judge would see it as the court's place to determine the appropriateness of parental discipline short of actual abuse. But alas, a judge overturns a father's punishment.

WHAT!?!

Check it out...

http://news.yahoo.com:80/s/afp/20080618/wl_canada_afp/canadachildcourtoffbeat

That judge has taken every bit of parental power away from this father. This 12-year-old who already has trouble following the rules now can do ANYTHING! A 12-year-old Canadian girl is now in control of her raising. I wouldn't be surprised if the father just wiped his hands and let her go down the path to ruin. Not necessarily out of anger, but because of a feeling of futility. What's the point of trying to stop her from doing anything.

That's twigi, folks...Plain twigi