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In the cases I’ve seen where the non-custodial father has rights, when it comes to homeschooling, the father, who generally wants the kids he isn’t raising in public school, prevails at the discretion of the judges.

How can the father, who doesn’t live with the family, know what’s best for the child when he never sees the day to day interactions.

The general mentality is that public school is *normal* and that children should go there to be raised *normally*. While it is TYPICAL, it is not normal to spend the greater part of a day in an institutional setting like that.

And besides, the whole premise here is that someone decided that the child’s upbringing is to restrictive and needs to be broadened.

Who made that decision and on what basis?

What gives the courts the right to rule on the validity of any one religion? That means they have to define said religion and rule on the exercise of it. That violates the Constitution, which guarantees the free exercise of religion.

If the father is concerned about his daughter’s religious upbringing, instead of strong arming the mother into the action he desires, why doesn’t he make a good faith effort to reconcile the marriage and be really involved in their lives.

Homeshooling is being used as a weapon here since the courts have determined that .....

New Hampshire Court orders Christian homeschooled girl to attend public school
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2326201/posts

“According to ADF allied attorney John Anthony Simmons, the court acknowledges that the girl in question is doing well socially and academically, but he adds that the court went too far when they determined that the girl’s Christian faith was a “’bit too sincerely held and must be sifted, tested by, and mixed among other worldviews.’”

The issue isn’t that she’s not doing well socially and academically, but that they object to the religious views she’s being taught.