British CSA Told Teenager To Sue Her Father

	posted by Scott on Thursday January 11, @09:09AM from the news dept.
	Recently a father from Britain lost a court case where he was forced to pay for his teenage daughter's tuition to attend one of the most expensive private schools in the country (the father was quite wealthy, and was paying for her to go to a cheaper private school, but did not want to pay more). It was recently discovered that the Child Support Agency recommended that Nicole, the daughter, sue her father for the money, rather than having her mother sue so she wouldn't have to pay legal expenses. The UK Sunday Times has the story here. This is probably the most direct and indefensible attack on the family I've ever seen by a government agency. I hope this stirs up some controversy in Britain, and gets some more talking going over here.

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Lost wisdom (Score:1) by BusterB on Thursday January 11, @04:27PM EST (#1) (User #94 Info) http://themenscenter.com/busterb/ Long, long ago (like sixty years) the courts and society did their best to stay out of the business of judging relationships and acting as referees between warring spouses. This case once again shows the folly of making decisions about the day-to-day running of a (divided) family based on irrelevant factors. A girl should or should not have the opportunity to go to a more expensive private school instead of the already expensive private school she's going to so that she can be closer to her home... why? Because her father isn't a very nice person? Because he's capable of paying? Because she wants to and she found a strategy to force him to pay? Whenever I see these cases I ask myself, "What would have happened if the parents had not been divorced?" In this case, there would probably have been a "row" but there would have been no way to force daddy to pay for a different school for his daughter if he didn't want to pay. So now we have a judge trying to decide this. The stupid part is not what the judge may eventually decide, but instead that the judge is deciding at all. This girl is not being denied opportunities. She's already going to a good school; it's just not the one she likes best. The court should have thrown the case out, saying, "This is not important enough to warrant our consideration. Get over it." Will we ever regain the wisdom that taught our great-grandparents to stay the hell out of personal squabbles between spouses, and parents and children? Well, not as long as the child support people, the lawyers, and the courts can make a buck off them.

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