The judge can’t give custody to the father now. He is in Israel.
The kids don’t want to talk to the father because they’ve seen him beating their mother. Who knows what is really going on.
The judge is crazy. She thinks the kids are like Manson? They all sound loony.
She doesn’t think the kids are like Manson, she is comparing the mother to Manson. Manson brainwashed those who followed him into believing crazy things.
For example, the kids claim that they saw their father beating their mother. But if the father never did beat their mother, and something tells me he didn’t and the court knows he didn’t, then the memories that the children have are evidence of brainwashing by the mother.
“.. who really knows what is going on”.
That is the problem for me. I will tell you this because I was impressed then as I am now. I worked with a woman who was divorced with a child. Okay.. to be fair, both parents realized the marriage was wrong and neither were ticked about the other wanting out. That being said, they sat down together and came up with the most brilliant child custody arrangement that I ever heard. Neither parent would do anything/make a huge decision without talking to the other parent except in an emergency. Each parent would never talk badly about the other parent. Both parents would attend school meetings, sporting events etc. Here is where it became awesome to me: each parent would sit next to each other and their new spouse would sit on the other side of them. They wanted their child to see both together instead of two “groups” in different parts of the stands (he played baseball).
She said sometimes it felt weird at first but the line of communication FOR THE SON was open for HIS BENEFIT. The son grew up and joined the military and he not only loved his parents but his step parents. He never felt like he had to choose one over the other. In fact, he told me that unlike other kids from divorce, he could never “play” the one against the other because they talked so much about what he was doing and why. Rare, I know.. but in this case... it was brilliant to me.