I read in the Sunday Times yesterday about the ex-wife of a rich city financier that was banned from seeing her young children for three years. She was found to have been turning them against their father. The woman was so distraught that she has continually tried to keep contact with her boys (she was arrested for telling her son she loved him) and even posted a video on the internet about her plight. She is due in court because of that too.
I know that where there is smoke there is fire, and that woman probably needs to attend a few parenting classes to say the least.
But come on. Are we on our way to becoming draconian society where the courts dictate how parents raise their children? How many divorcees do you know that hate their exs and do not try to hide it. Should we throw them all in jail? (Don't get me wrong, I think it is very damaging to use children like pawns in divorce). But where will this stop? What's scary is that this ruling can be used as a precedent for other cases.
It also makes me wonder ... We are only privy to this information because the family court system just opened up to the media a few weeks ago. How many other cases like this exist?
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