It would be very easy to just “fall in line” with the other posters here.... but.... what about the father’s rights as to how his child is to be raised? Just becuase the couple is divorced does not mean Dad must just sign the support checks and keep his mouth shut.
This is a difficult case; I am not sure I agree with the judge, but then I an not sure I disagree with him.
The mother’s faith is not mentioned... what if she is a Muslim??
“but.... what about the father’s rights...”
Sorry, you lose - this is America...and things have changed (for the worse).
As I advise EVERY GUY that I know, either don’t get married, or at least marry someone not born here - hopefully from a family and country where marriage is looked at something more than a piggy bank.
Feminism has won...so let our American women have each other.
Been there, done that. This whole thing gets messy and the one with the most Money wins. And through it all the kids are the real Losers. Sad World We live in.
“One wants the child very isolated and cloistered and the other wants the child to be worldly and be exposed to all the experiences one ought to have as an adolescent.”
What a crock. He apparently didn't have any problem with the homeschooling previously. The debate is over the religious upbringing, not the homeschooling issue.
Besides, do you realize what " all the experiences one ought to have as an adolescent" entails these days????
Please, spare her.
Laura Ingalls Wilder grew up just fine with a religious upbringing in relative isolation, as did millions like her. They turned out fine. What makes you think this present generation's social life is one you'd want to inflict on any child? Let her have her childhood and enjoy it. Life is bad enough these days and she'll be better equipped to handle it when she's ready to if she doesn't have the emotional baggage of a public school education hanging around her neck.
Not only that, there's the matter of her actual education. The father's objection is not that the girl won't be educated. He's worried about her "social life".
Read the article.
Do you homeschool, just out of curiosity?
If the father is not involved in the day to day raising of the child, he has essentially little to complain about.
The mother who has custody is the one who will have to deal with the school district if there’s a problem, will have to deal with the fall out of the abuse that the other public school kids WILL inflict on her, will have to sit up with her and dry the tears and nurse her back to health from all the sickness that she will be exposed to.
The parent with custody SHOULD have the deciding say in a situation like that. THEY’RE the one actually raising the child.
If he doesn’t like paying child support, he should have considered that before getting married and having children.
This stuff happens in a divorce and judges are most likely to side with what is the more standard practice.
With a picture of Jesus holding a child?