Joshua and Michael Hocken are in my view right, but what a judgment of Solomon for the judge! Being judgmental about the parents’ deception seems to me to be uncharitable. All of us who are or have been parents as I would prefer to think would identify with the syndrome where decisions over children have to be made with so often the unease of fearing that whatever the decision it will be wrong at least to some extent. As for grand parental duties with three generations represented within the envelope of the same building, there is seemingly the added daily dilemma of guarding against the usurping of the parents’ (or sometimes parent’s) role. Speaking from personal experience? You bet!
What a splendid example of the range of issues dealt with in the family courts. The paramount nature of the child’s best interests is well-illustrated by the judge’s wise and heartfelt ruling. I hope – as with adoption cases – that the trouble he went to in documenting and endorsing the parents’ decisions as being overwhelmingly in the child’s interests will one day help the boy come to terms with the deception practised upon him, and recognise that it was truly done for him.
Joshua and Michael Hocken are in my view right, but what a judgment of Solomon for the judge! Being judgmental about the parents’ deception seems to me to be uncharitable. All of us who are or have been parents as I would prefer to think would identify with the syndrome where decisions over children have to be made with so often the unease of fearing that whatever the decision it will be wrong at least to some extent. As for grand parental duties with three generations represented within the envelope of the same building, there is seemingly the added daily dilemma of guarding against the usurping of the parents’ (or sometimes parent’s) role. Speaking from personal experience? You bet!
What a splendid example of the range of issues dealt with in the family courts. The paramount nature of the child’s best interests is well-illustrated by the judge’s wise and heartfelt ruling. I hope – as with adoption cases – that the trouble he went to in documenting and endorsing the parents’ decisions as being overwhelmingly in the child’s interests will one day help the boy come to terms with the deception practised upon him, and recognise that it was truly done for him.
I entirely agree.