Posted on 11/09/2013 6:02:21 AM PST by JoeProBono
NEW YORK, - A defamation lawsuit in New York alleges a court-appointed psychiatrist told a judge a man who refused to take his son to McDonald's was an unfit parent.
David Schorr, 43, a Manhattan attorney, filed a lawsuit in city Supreme Court alleging court-appointed psychiatrist Marilyn Schiller filed a report in his custody battle saying he was "wholly incapable of taking care of his son" and should be denied weekend visitation rights for refusing to take his 4-year-old son to the fast-food restaurant, the New York Post reported Friday.
Schorr said the incident in question involved his son throwing a temper tantrum during a Tuesday night visitation last week when he refused to take him to McDonald's.
Schorr said he told the boy they could go to any restaurant other than McDonald's, but if his son would not consent to another restaurant, there would be no dinner.
"The child, stubborn as a mule, chose the 'no dinner' option," Schorr said in the lawsuit. "It was just a standoff. I'm kicking myself mightily.
"I wish I had taken him to McDonalds, but you get nervous about rewarding bad behavior. I was concerned. I think it was a 1950s equivalent of sending your child to bed without dinner. That's maybe the worst thing you can say about it," he said.
Schorr said the child's mother made sure he did not learn any lessons from the incident.
"My wife immediately took him to McDonalds," Schorr said.
Schorr said he regrets his decision, but Schiller's report amounts to defamation.
"You'd think it was sexual molestation," Schorr said of the psychiatrist's report of his actions. "I am just floored by it."
You don’t sound very happy. Why don’t you get a divorce?
It’s okay there, it’s okay.
Ronald McDonald always scared the sh!t out of me too as a kid. Creepy son-of-gun....
Can you hear me now?
“You regret your decision after explaining correctly the reason FOR your decision ?
You’ll NEVER represent ME. “
The father lives in Neu Yuc Sh*ty, where commies ARE the government. Had he not “confessed”, he well may have lost all parental rights.
Damn, I hate to think you’re correct ...
When my now 31 year old daughter was a teenager, I had way more grey hair than I do today...she did try me, she was under the strong delusion that she had a stronger will than Dad...Nope...
BTW, every psychiatrist I have known are deeply disturbed themselves...I think they go into that field thinking they can fix themselves...
I’ve encountered some libs who have asserted that taking a kid to McRonald’s is child abuse.
These people need to get their story straight.
You take concern about a friend to be a sign of unhappiness?
No. His comment that he was done with marriage gave me the impression that he had an unhappy marriage.
The older I get, I sometimes feel regrets for not marrying that one who got away, but the memories called by stories like this make all those regrets disappear.
Looking back, perhaps Garth had it right and "no" is the greatest gift after all.
Just too much long term heartache marrying into liberalism to do that to myself.
So you think that men in a happy marriage choose to marry often? LOL
But I thought it was child abuse TO take your kids to McDonalds because the food is not healthy?
Only a psychiatrist and a lawyer can twist anything into logic no wonder things are so screwed up.
Guess it explains why D.C. is like it is.
I always offered my kids a peanut butter sandwich if they didn’t want what I cooked. That’s more than I got when I was a kid.
I used to live next door to a psychiatrist; he was abusive and the whole family were the most dysfunctional I’ve ever known.
You're reading way too much into it, LJ. I'll leave it at that.
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