12 Year-Old Sues Father Over Grounding

I think I'm just going to start a label called "Rabbit Hole" - a reference to Alice in Wonderland, whereby we take a look into another world where everything seems upside down or in someway very foreign to our own. Unfortunately, this phrase is used to indicate a look into the future and seeing our own world.

Well, the latest glimpse down the rabbit hole is a Canadian court case where a 12 year old girl sued her father for grounding her because she used chat sites he had forbidden and posted "inappropriate" pictures of herself on the web. According to the article:
"The girl, whose parents are divorced, then left her dad’s house and moved in with her mother, even though the father has 100% custody. But because she still needed her father to sign the consent form for the field trip, she and her mother convinced a court-appointed lawyer to take the father to court."
The shocking thing is that the mother participated in this (this is apparently why she does NOT have custody), and that a judge actually heard the case and agreed with the child!

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