How about those judges.
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=41b3c989-1aad-434c-b50a-6793aabca047
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Judge lifts 12-year-old's grounding
Dad fights back as girl gets to go on class trip
Ottawa Citizen
Published: Tuesday, June 17, 2008
GATINEAU - The Gatineau father of a 12-year-old girl who won a court decision overruling a paternal punishment is appealing the decision, his lawyer said Tuesday.
The girl took her father to Quebec Superior Court after he said she couldn't go on a school trip for disobeying his orders to stay off the Internet.
The man's lawyer, Kim Beaudoin, said the issue is about restoring paternal authority and should have been dismissed by Justice Suzanne Tessier, who told the girl Friday she could make the trip.
"If a parent goes too far, there's youth court," Ms. Beaudoin said. "I don't think this tribunal was the proper forum for a decision like this one."
In any event, the child had broken a number of house rules, she noted. After the father cut her access to the Internet for chatting on websites he tried to block, she used a friend's Internet connection to post pictures of herself in clothing "inappropriate for a child her age," Ms. Beaudoin said.
"It's for her protection," she said of the father's disciplinary measures, mentioning the arrest of a Belgian man in Montreal found in a hotel with a 13-year-old girl last weekend.
"If we don't learn at the age of 12 there are rules to follow, when do we?" Ms. Beaudoin said.
Canwest News Service
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I always thought that I had unreasonably early bedtimes as a child, too bad I didn't think about taking the issue to court.
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Judge lifts 12-year-old's grounding
Dad fights back as girl gets to go on class trip
Ottawa Citizen
Published: Tuesday, June 17, 2008
GATINEAU - The Gatineau father of a 12-year-old girl who won a court decision overruling a paternal punishment is appealing the decision, his lawyer said Tuesday.
The girl took her father to Quebec Superior Court after he said she couldn't go on a school trip for disobeying his orders to stay off the Internet.
The man's lawyer, Kim Beaudoin, said the issue is about restoring paternal authority and should have been dismissed by Justice Suzanne Tessier, who told the girl Friday she could make the trip.
"If a parent goes too far, there's youth court," Ms. Beaudoin said. "I don't think this tribunal was the proper forum for a decision like this one."
In any event, the child had broken a number of house rules, she noted. After the father cut her access to the Internet for chatting on websites he tried to block, she used a friend's Internet connection to post pictures of herself in clothing "inappropriate for a child her age," Ms. Beaudoin said.
"It's for her protection," she said of the father's disciplinary measures, mentioning the arrest of a Belgian man in Montreal found in a hotel with a 13-year-old girl last weekend.
"If we don't learn at the age of 12 there are rules to follow, when do we?" Ms. Beaudoin said.
Canwest News Service
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I always thought that I had unreasonably early bedtimes as a child, too bad I didn't think about taking the issue to court.