Spare the rod, get sued by your kid... Really?
Maybe you read about the case where a young lady decided her parents "owed" her a college education, no matter what. McCrabby wasn't going to comment, but the legal system has been a target before, so let's give a judge his due. He stopped this lunacy.
In case you haven't heard, let's give a quick recap:
Rachel Canning — who has been accepted to several colleges, including a $20,000 scholarship to the University of Vermont — wanted the court to declare she’s nonemancipated because under the law a parent has an obligation to support their child if he or she is not emancipated.
“To be clear, my clients never abandoned nor abused their child, and they have asked her to come home,” their attorney, Laurie Rush-Masuret, told reporters just before entering court.
Rush-Masuret said Rachel Canning did not want to follow house rules, including making curfew and breaking up with her boyfriend whom her parents considered trouble. “We’re good parents,” Sean Canning said. “We have nothing to hide.”
Judge Peter Bogaard noted that Rachel Canning’s behavior over the past year was a concern -- cutting high school, getting suspended, her boyfriend doing the same, moving in with her best friend’s so-called “concerned” family, and then seeking high school and college tuition costs, and $654 a week in living expenses.
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Maybe you read about the case where a young lady decided her parents "owed" her a college education, no matter what. McCrabby wasn't going to comment, but the legal system has been a target before, so let's give a judge his due. He stopped this lunacy.In case you haven't heard, let's give a quick recap:
Rachel Canning — who has been accepted to several colleges, including a $20,000 scholarship to the University of Vermont — wanted the court to declare she’s nonemancipated because under the law a parent has an obligation to support their child if he or she is not emancipated.
“To be clear, my clients never abandoned nor abused their child, and they have asked her to come home,” their attorney, Laurie Rush-Masuret, told reporters just before entering court.
Rush-Masuret said Rachel Canning did not want to follow house rules, including making curfew and breaking up with her boyfriend whom her parents considered trouble. “We’re good parents,” Sean Canning said. “We have nothing to hide.”
Six hundred fifty-four a week? McCrabby usually takes about a hundred a week for his expenses. Mrs. M takes less than that, except for groceries. I know iPhones and Starbucks are expensive, but really?
The judge said the sides will revisit the issue of college tuition at the end of April, about a month after Rachel Canning’s financial aid forms are due. Bogaard hinted that ruling in the teen’s favor could set a dangerous legal precedent. “Do we want to establish a precedent where parents living in constant fear of establishing basic rules of the house?” he said.
OK, McCrabby has some thoughts..
- McCrabby's #1 child, with an IQ north of 140 was attending Michigan State University and attaining a 2.0-2.5 gradepoint average. He was passing, but not working. Making a difficult decision, McCrabby told McCrabby Jr., that the gravy train was over. Dad was done making payments for college. The result? He never missed the Dean's List for the rest of his college years and graduated with the Honors College. Seems like parents should be involved.
- Our legal system lets these frivolous lawsuits move forward at major cost, in terms of money, and humanity. Aren't we tired of this?
- Shouldn't parents be allowed to parent? There are so many parents that abdicate that responsibility, maybe we should applaud those that step up. McCrabby can speak from experience that it is tougher to deny your child something you can provide than it is to simply give them what they want. We need to give them what they need.
- And, how do you feel about the friend's parents, who took this young lady in, financed her lawsuit and were "concerned" so they stepped in? McCrabby realizes that not all is known about the entire situation, but who does that??
- We seem to be living in a time of entitlement; would this type of suit been brought 25 years ago, or even 15? Would our parents have been shocked at this action? Would your dad simply have told you to "shut up and act right?"
- Some say that kids today mature faster. Maybe, in regards to sex and knowing how to work the system. Beyond that, many kids seem far less mature than their predecessors. An 18-year-old today seems almost juvenile compared to the ones who went off to fight World War II, or even those of us who were in college, managing our Viet Nam draft status on our own (and paying for college on our own). When my father told me to pull my own weight, I knew how a response of "how 'bout you give me $654/week, and I won't need to" would be received. McCrabby's kids knew the same. We didn't sue. When did that change?
Entitlement seems to be built into our political system, encouraged by our legal system, and driven by a lack of common sense. Thankfully, this judge put a stop to the lunacy, if only temporarily - let's wait to see what happens during the "revisit" in late April.
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