Posted on 01/27/2011 5:20:12 PM PST by metmom
Brenda Voydatch leafs through her daughter’s school books inside her single-story home in Meredith, New Hampshire.
“These are her math and science books,” she says.
Like many parents who home-school, Voydatch believes in the importance of teaching the basics of reading and writing. But she also believes in the importance of a religious education.
“I believe it’s a parents fundamental right to teach a child the beliefs within their home,” she says as she looks up at the painting of Jesus holding a child. “I believe that’s every parent’s right.”
It was that religious education that led to her ex-husband’s objections. It also led to a New Hampshire judge to order Brenda’s 11 year-old daughter Amanda to attend public school.
It’s an order her attorney, John Anthony Simmons, calls a clear Constitutional violation.
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I never said his opinion shouldn’t be considered, but unless he’s dealing with the day to day raising of the girl and the one doing damage control from what the public school is going to inflict on this girl, tough beans for him.
HE’S not the one living with her.
Thank God.
“Fine. If men with your kind of attitude want to stay away from American women, that’s fine by me. It increases the quality of the prospective pool my daughters will have to choose from.”
I’m sure that they’re fine girls, but feminism has tainted them. They will be very lucky if they find guys willing to gamble away decades of their life based on a few nice dates.
It’s all a probability game...and guys are (finally) figuring it out.
I agree with you that his opinion is not well-founded.
However, the larger issue is the role in which the father has to decide the education of his child. Mother and father must come to an acceptable agreement.
The child cannot be both enrolled in a school and taught at home. There’s no way to split between the two. So they have to come up with something that works for both of them.
Until that happens, the child should be schooled with her mother.
YOU’RE missing the point He agreed to homeschool her initially. And now he’s changed his mind.
Therefore, obviously, her *social life* wasn’t a concern then. He’s not worried about the quality of her education, because that wasn’t what was even brought up, and that’s supposed to be the whole point of sending kids to school in the first place, isn’t it?
I’d lay money on it that it was AFTER the divorce and he’s using this as a weapon against the mother.
Did you honestly just thank God that a father is separated from his child?
If she’s not homeschooling, then she can get out and get a job and earn her own money and he doesn’t have to pay out as much, does he?
Having raised 4 children, I've changed my mind from time to time, so what? He obviously didn't like the way things were going, and that is simply his right.
I’d lay money on it that it was AFTER the divorce and he’s using this as a weapon against the mother.
I'd lay money that his wife's views were more mainstream when he agreed to it, she became more radical as time went on, and he was tired of sitting on the sidelines feeling helpless as he witnessed the weirding of his child, so he hired a lawyer.
I’m curious. Where do polygamist Mormons children get schooled? Do they go to public schools? If not, why not? If home-schooled, why has no one ever looked into it? Or have they, and I missed it?
You’re not going to make a dent in these misogynistic minds Metmom.
Been there, seen it.
In fact, I know a case where the mother had a psychotic break (a reaction to prescription meds). The father had to call police, and next thing, the judge is ordering the father to send the kids to regular school, even though BOTH the parents believed strongly in homeschooling.
That was one nasty case, basically of the liberal DHS attacking a very good family. It took them years and thousands of dollars to get their family back in order.
Care to wager on that statement? I'll prove you wrong and collect before this thread is cold. I'll give you the name of a woman who lost her child and did time for contempt of a court for trying that very thing.
There’s all kinds of things that may have happened here.
For instance, there is a case like this around now where it was two women in a lesbian relationship that had a child. The woman that bore the child, on breakup, considered the child hers. (The other had no true relationship other than adoption).
The real mother got out and married a man. She started to raise the girl as a Christian, and the adoptive lesbian mom came after her like gangbusters. I think the adoptive mom was actually able to steal the child due to a pro gay judge in Vermont.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out this man took off with someone else, and this women’s religious life put him on a guilt trip. I’ve seen that happen a lot. They WONT be told it wasn’t right to get a divorce and go off with another woman. Of course, that’s just a guess.
Is there something about the First Amendment that you have trouble understanding?
I don’t have a clue.
Ummm... no. Most agreements come with a milage limit on living quarters for the custodial parent. At least in this state. Break it and the entire custody thing is up for grabs.
My daughters are hardly feminists, but I’d be thrilled for them to avoid that kind of mentality.
We don’t need it.
Most of the Dhs needs to disappear. They do not diminish the sum total of misery, they just move it around.
I'm not the one who believes it states that one parent's wishes can be foisted upon the other unchallenged.
The other had no true relationship other than adoption
Unless procurred illegally, the adoption relationship is seen legally as binding and valid as the bio relationship
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