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Court Bars Mom From Smoking Around Child
NY Law Journal ^
| 3/25/02
| By John Caher
Posted on 03/25/2002 5:30:15 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Gabz
Ummmmmm...Gabz....NicoNaziPing!
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posted on
03/25/2002 5:36:05 AM PST
by
hobbes1
To: hobbes1
I would calmly tell all in this case to kiss my ass. If that wuss of a kid was my boy, I would tell him to come visit me when you grow a set of balls.
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posted on
03/25/2002 5:41:41 AM PST
by
ohioman
To: ohioman
I'd send him down to Texas Tech to play for Bobby Knight!
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posted on
03/25/2002 5:44:42 AM PST
by
hobbes1
To: Behind Liberal Lines
[the judge] noted that courts have not been reluctant to interfere with parental authority when the risk to a child is great, as he found it is here. Doesn't take them very much anymore to find 'great risk', does it?
Cordially,
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posted on
03/25/2002 5:46:11 AM PST
by
Diamond
To: Behind Liberal Lines; just another joe; max Mcgarrity
The inexorable death march has begun. The government is finally in the stages of rounding up inhabitants for the camps. What absolute lunacy! I hope this mother fights back.
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posted on
03/25/2002 5:46:44 AM PST
by
Movemout
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Puffa-puffa-bump! BTW, cool moniker.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Boortz just teased this story going to commercial.
To: Movemout
Nothing would prevent social services from removing kids from the homes of married parents under this judge's logic.
To: Kryptonite
They already have done so. The slope is just getting more slippery and steeper.
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posted on
03/25/2002 5:51:51 AM PST
by
Movemout
To: Behind Liberal Lines
And coming from a broken home is great for the kid, right?
To: Movemout
And here is his reasoning.
"No element of American liberty is more highly cherished or jealously guarded than religious freedom, yet in its role as parens patriae, and for the protection of the health and welfare of children, the state may and will contravene a family's religious beliefs and obligations," Justice Julian wrote. "The [mother's] interest in unhampered cigarette smoking cannot be said to be greater than the religious interests advanced by others wishing for parental judgment to overcome a child's best interests."
By this standard, the courts have a club with which they can do just about anything they want.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
But she can take the child to have an abortion.
To: AppyPappy
Take the child for an abortion? When did males become able to get pregnant?
To: Behind Liberal Lines; LostThread
I wonder how long before we'll see the courts mandating that parents maintain an adequate supply of Little Debbie snack cakes on hand . . .
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posted on
03/25/2002 6:11:31 AM PST
by
BraveMan
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Only in Democrap controlled Amerika:(
To: BraveMan
Little Debbie!?! Are you insane, man?
Those things are loaded with sugar which can lead to diabetes and obesity. You know full well that obesity is a greater burden on the health care industry than smoking. How can you encourage your child to be fat? This is cause for great concern.
(sarcasm off)
To: hobbes1
This can't be America.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I think I'd tell the young man to stay with his father. Further "visitation" is entirely unnecessary.
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posted on
03/25/2002 7:02:32 AM PST
by
jimt
To: Behind Liberal Lines
"The mother contended that her indoor smoking occurred primarily during the winter, and suggested that the father was the impetus behind the motion."That's what I thought when I first started reading the story.
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