This is insane.
A 12 year old girl gets grounded for slutting it up in a dating site, and she sues her dad in order to overturn her punishment.
Thanks a lot, Canada. Hard enough to try and raise kids, but raising them with government backseat parenting is just plain ridiculous. While this decision will probably not gain traction in the Philippines, the mere fact that there is precedent may give some bright young smartass here some leeway to sue his parents in the International Courts via established legal precedent as shown in Her Majesty's Canadian courts. After all, the ICJ, with no legal traditions of its own, tends to borrow a lot from those that have them.
What's next, a middle-school boy suing to have the family PC's net nanny turned off?
Pity Canadian parents. Oh, and fuck Canadian government.
I still don't get why that country is such a popular immigrant destination.
It's a popular immigration destination because it's EASY. That's all there is to it. With their obsession on multiculturalism, I don't even think there should be a Canada at all but just a mosaic of everything. It ruins the state. Ugh.
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ReplyDeleteAnd you wonder why Filipinos still decide to raise their children here instead of there. Here's a tip: we don't have a culture of suing each other over little things.
ReplyDeleteWell that I think stems more from the fact that we have a very inefficient justice system (it's not worth the effort and money), and that we have a culture of non-confrontation.
ReplyDeleteI remember Dr. Zeller telling us during our European Issues class that the Filipinos should be grateful that there is inefficiency here. The inefficiency, he says, helps us retain our humanity, in all its glories and infirmities.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm beginning to understand why. No wonder the old man likes it here.
I remember the classic case of the "careful it's hot" caution and why it started. Seriously, you sue someone because of your own stupidity? Only in the west.
ReplyDeleteIn a place where everybody is special and the courts are like clockwork, even the stupid have the right to make asses out of all of us. :)
ReplyDeletewell, the part where they get money off it (tons of it, mind you) seems pretty darn smart to me.
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