North Dakota Endorses Secrecy About Children
Saturday/January19/08
Can a legislature keep information about you children
from you?
The North Dakota House Judiciary Committee killed a bill, on a 10 to 3 vote, that would have required custodial parents to tell noncustodial parents about routine child-rearing decisions. These decisions include things like day care, extracurricular activities, medical services, religious instruction and driving.
Opponents of the measure said it would just give said parents more things to fight about.
So now, a noncustodial parent not only has no say about where a child goes to school, who takes care of the child, and so forth, the parent doesn't even have a right to know these things.
Apparently the thought is that you can't fight about something you don't know about. Let's also hope that what you don't know won't hurt you - or your child.
The North Dakota House Judiciary Committee killed a bill, on a 10 to 3 vote, that would have required custodial parents to tell noncustodial parents about routine child-rearing decisions. These decisions include things like day care, extracurricular activities, medical services, religious instruction and driving.
Opponents of the measure said it would just give said parents more things to fight about.
So now, a noncustodial parent not only has no say about where a child goes to school, who takes care of the child, and so forth, the parent doesn't even have a right to know these things.
Apparently the thought is that you can't fight about something you don't know about. Let's also hope that what you don't know won't hurt you - or your child.
