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In reply to the discussion: Because seeing your dad HIT YOUR MOTHER is no reason not to have lunch with him. [View all]Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)31. To prevent continuation of their 'gang' mindset, reinforcement of their hostility to their father.
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Because seeing your dad HIT YOUR MOTHER is no reason not to have lunch with him. [View all]
IdaBriggs
Jul 2015
OP
Maybe the father has failed to maintain a "healthy relationship" with his children?
DetlefK
Jul 2015
#2
I fail to see how locking up the children in a juvenlie facility is going to make them
LisaL
Jul 2015
#19
It would surely be to reduce or eliminate their mother's influence over them.
Joe Chi Minh
Jul 2015
#28
One thing it's not going to do, is to make them have a good relationship with their father.
LisaL
Jul 2015
#33
Even if it's not his fault, locking kids up in a juvenile facility is not going to make them love
LisaL
Jul 2015
#40
No. As was said of Byron, they are mad, bad and dangerous to know! Before they grow up.
Joe Chi Minh
Jul 2015
#66
Yes. Tug of hate, when they hate each other more than they love their children Or don't realise
Joe Chi Minh
Jul 2015
#25
"I find the wrong people may be in jail. One of the parents belongs in Children's Village,"
HereSince1628
Jul 2015
#6
Edited: Thanks for bringing this one to our attention. Hard to know for sure what is what here.
stevenleser
Jul 2015
#11
Well, having been part of a long drawn out custody case, there are bookcases full of filings
stevenleser
Jul 2015
#23
I suspect it's a mother-inspired ganging up. The normal reaction of children would be
Joe Chi Minh
Jul 2015
#30
I am inclined to believe that there is more going on AND the judge needs to be removed
etherealtruth
Jul 2015
#78
Father accepted a job in Israel. Wife didn't want to move there. She moved there for a while, but
LisaL
Jul 2015
#13
To prevent continuation of their 'gang' mindset, reinforcement of their hostility to their father.
Joe Chi Minh
Jul 2015
#31
So you think that locking children up in a juvenile facility is going to make them feel kindly
LisaL
Jul 2015
#32
" Gorcyca reminded the boy that his father had never been charged with any offenses"
Jack Rabbit
Jul 2015
#27
Locking the children up in a juvenile facilty is not the solution to this type of problem.
LisaL
Jul 2015
#37
What is? You seem to think that the hate-filled mindset of the children, seeingly inculcated by the
Joe Chi Minh
Jul 2015
#50
I stand corrected. Thank you. Strange to think of a 5 year old behind bars.
Joe Chi Minh
Jul 2015
#63
True. Strange to think of even 9 and 10 year olds being kept in prison cells behind bars, though.
Joe Chi Minh
Jul 2015
#64
Perhaps it was "inculcated by" the father's violence towards the mother? Just a guess.
WinkyDink
Jul 2015
#57
Maybe. I hope not, because if I were a woman sporadically battered 'black and blue',
Joe Chi Minh
Jul 2015
#65
The 15 year old son WITNESSED his father assault his mother. No wonder he hates him.
pnwmom
Jul 2015
#73
does the judge have some serious problems? telling a 9-year old to study the manson family?????
niyad
Jul 2015
#35
One thing is certain: In 3, 8, and 9 years, Daddy-O will lose FOREVER any contact with his kids.
WinkyDink
Jul 2015
#59
Nightmare for the children and it sounds like it will become much worse now. n/t
Jefferson23
Jul 2015
#67