Canadian Judge Rules Against Parents

June 20, 2008 by Ian.

HT to Al Mohler for this one:

Father doesn’t know best, court rules in girl’s fight to get grounding overruled:

Toronto’s Globe and Mail reports that a father ruled too harshly when he grounded his daughter from a school camping trip after she broke his rules on the internet. Now, this isn’t a father who is punishing his daughter by tying her to a tree, she was JUST grounded! More than that, his rules against internet use which she willfully waltzed over were created for HER PROTECTION. She had created an account on online dating sites and published her pictures for all to see. If that were my daughter I would have deleted the accounts and banned her from not only any contact with friends but from all electronic media for at least a month. The child that is in a home is under the Biblical authority of the parents and we should be allowed to punish as we see fit short of physical abuse. I completely understand how the court should step in if there child is being beaten, that makes perfect sense to me. If there’s sexual abuse, fine. To overstep the authority of parents on a grounding? That’s blatant abuse of authority and if this ruling isn’t overturned the Canadian justice system will show itself to be a worthless institution that looks out for the interests of no one.

Now, what does this have to do with us? For that, I turn to the end of Albert Mohler’s commentary on it:

The logic of this ruling is not limited to Canada. In 1970, Hillary Rodham, then a young lawyer (and later Sen. Hillary Clinton), wrote a law review article, “Children Under the Law,” in which she argued that minors should be treated as “child citizens” who should, under at least some conditions, be able to challenge their parents in court over parental decisions.

This father may win his appeal — we must hope that he does — but the damage is already done. This 12-year-old girl has defied her father and been rewarded by a secular court. The judge and the court have now become complicit in the girl’s disobedience. This father has had his rights as father denied and his authority undermined. We can only imagine the costs of this judicial malpractice in the life of this girl and her family. Beyond this, the precedent is now set for further judicial mischief.

Is this the kind of worthless judicial system we have to look forward to in this country? With the continual pending hate crime and homosexual “inclusiveness” legislation, it’s only a matter of time.

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