People who should not be allowed to breed, part 8,436
Two parents who had split up about a year ago, recently went to the Family Court to ask for a ruling on where their 7 year old daughter’s birthday party should be held and who should be invited. Her dad wanted to celebrate at McDonald’s with gifts, balloons, his relatives, his new partner – and their seven-month-old baby girl. Her mum wanted it to be on familiar ground at her daughter’s usual play centre, with no relatives.
It took a judge, three barristers, three solicitors and a day in court at an estimated $30,000 to work out where the girl should celebrate her seventh birthday.
The parents have been before the court “a number of times” since they split up early last year. Last appearance, in December, the judge ordered they both undergo “therapeutic counselling”. They ignored this, didn’t do the counselling and so ended up back in court over the birthday party.
Personally I’d say put the little girl into care, and tell mum and dad to grow up, and then we’ll think about custody arrangements, and when we’ve shown we’re all grown up and mature, you can have her back.
Family law experts yesterday slammed parents who tie up valuable court time with “trivial” matters. Michael Taussig QC said if somebody came to him asking to run a case in court about a birthday, he would tell them to see a psychiatrist. (Unfortunately, I’m sure most lawyers would happily take the money and run the case.)
“Unfortunately the Family Court has to deal with dysfunctional people constantly and this is just one example,” he said.
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Why is it you have to have a license to practice medicine, practice law, sell stuff, drive a semi, or even a car? If you are willing to take in a child who has been abandoned by some idiots that don’t know what a gift they have, you ave to have your entire life examined under a microscope? But anyone with the proper sexual organs can have children..?
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These people should be shot. Seriously. What are they doing to that poor kid? Selfish bastards.
My heart goes out to the little girl.
No child should be made to go through this.
Poor munchkin, you’d think at some point that people would realize what they do to their kids and grow the heck up. I was a Mom very young and even *I* had better sense than this, regardless of the parenting skills i observed in my own family.
Hopefully this little girl will end up with parents that can grow up and see that their child is important and their differences aren’t important at all.
Unfortunately it is the kids that suffers most in situations like this one…
Unfortunately lots of parents use their children as a tool to get at the other parent. They not in it for the kids, but their own egos. Sad.
They should have just asked where SHE wanted to have her party. Then again I don’t envy her trying to have an opinion on her own birthday party, because if she picked one of their options, it would be used to make the other parent feel rejected. Very sad.
It is an amazing waste of resources. Pity the poor bastards who had to deal with this pair.
Still, I reckon there would be much less of this kind of thing if nanny state meddlers weren’t so influential in our society. If government backed off a bit and encouraged a more self-reliant, mature approach to life, then adults wouldn’t feel the need to call for government help whenever they have a disagreement.
Those dickheads are just using that kid as a weapon against each other. The poor kid will have learnt, already, that the only importance she has in their lives is as a pawn.
Some parents should be speyed by the local vet as even animals care better for their offspring than these two.