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Judge punishes mother for allowing children to be angry with father | National News | News.com.au
Yay for fathers. It's sickening that the women get more family rights most of the time, but atleast now they can be penalised for being vindictive bitches and dragging the kids into it.TWO children have been sent to live with their father after a court ruled the mother encouraged "negative" feelings about their dad.
The two children - a girl, aged nine, and a boy, aged seven - had been struggling with "change overs" between parents, saying things such as "I don't want to go" and "I don't have to go" when their father arrived in Tasmania from Melbourne to collect them for access visits, The Australian reports.
The Family Court found the mother did not discourage them from saying these things, and did not encourage a positive relationship between the children and their father.
The children told counsellors they were angry their father had left their mother, and lived with his new girlfriend in Melbourne.
Family Court judge Robert Benjamin said the children "clearly wanted" to stay with their mother, who had been their primary carer since birth, and acknowledged the "disruption to the children's family unit and their stability if they were to move to
But Justice Benjamin said the "mother could see what was happening at change overs and did little about it".
Justice Benjamin said the girl, B, was becoming "emotionally estranged from her father" and was at risk of "psychological damage, if not psychiatric damage" if she was not allowed to have a relationship with her father.
The decision was made under new laws, introduced by the Howard Government, that require the Family Court to adopt the presumption of "shared parenting" when dealing with children of divorce.
Justice Benjamin ordered the children be removed from their mother's care, and to see her for school holidays and Mother's Day. She is also entitled to a phone call "each Sunday between 6.30pm and 7.30pm".
The court took evidence from a psychologist who helped facilitate a changeover between the parents on June 27 last year.
When the time came for the children to get into the car with their father, the girl "started what can only be described as a mantra, or a chant".
"She kept repeating: 'I don't want to go' and 'I don't have to go'," the psychologist told the court.
"When her father greeted her, she (said), 'I hate you'."
B gave the psychologist a list that said: "I don't want to go with my father because he tells lies, he hurts me, he left our family and he has got a girlfriend and I don't like her."
Read more of this report in The Australian.