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To most of us, it’s common sense. But it took a court to tell Rachael Hill she couldn’t smoke around her kid. And an appeals court just upheld their ruling.
Hill only has visitation rights to see her daughter. Victoria Anderson lives with her paternal great-grandparents, while her divorced parents visit. It was great-grandma who complained that the girl returned from visits reeking of cigarette smoke. She won the right to keep Victoria smoke free late last year.
So mom appealed – on her right to smoke. Continue reading »
Two years after he went missing, the Ricky Chekevdia was found in a hidden room behind a wall in his grandmother’s home. But though that mystery has come to a close, the questions are just beginning.
The pitch smacked of fearmongering: a promo for temporary ID tattoos for kids, paired with an encouragement to sign up for a registry that lets you put together a profile of your child IN CASE they’re ever abducted.
Do we really need to live in such fear that we’ll pay $19.95 for an update-able registry listing for police to check out should our child ever be grabbed by a sex offender? How about just keeping a current photo of your child on hand? Continue reading »
The highest court in Michigan refuses to hear cases all the time, so why are parents’ rights advocates so upset this time around?
Because the father who has lost all rights to ever see his three kids again was denied a lawyer all the way through the juvenile court system. And still the Michigan Supreme Court says they won’t even take a look at Ronald McBride’s case. Continue reading »
Oh sweet heavens. A judge in Georgia actually stipulated that a father in a custody battle couldn’t expose his children to his gay friends. No, it didn’t hold up in court – thank heavens. Continue reading »
An American mom got to see her daughter this week, twelve years after the girl’s Egyptian father took off to his homeland with the then toddler. Continue reading »
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