Which also goes a long way towards explaining why he got away with it for so long. He was clever about it, in his own way. Kept his turf clean.

Reminds me of that old song “stand by your man.” I’ve always hated that song.

Looks to me like she’s helping steer the ship.

Wow, she is really intent on going down with that ship.

Internalized misogyny is a hell of a thing.

Parents are not owed the love of their children. The judge is treating the children’s affection as if it were a asset to be awarded in the divorce.

This judge hates children (or has an unreasonable affection for their father).

It’s been interesting reading the comments on the various articles—almost every single person who supports the judge takes the position, “Fuck the kids—they deserve to be incarcerated until they’re 18 if they don’t love their father enough!” Amazing that the well-being of the children is as unimportant to everyone…

There’s no excuse for what she did. I know there are two sides to every divorce story, and as I learned from watching my friend’s divorce unfold, sometimes one parent will go out of his/her way to poison the kids against the other parent. And that’s unforgivable. But it is NOT THE CHILDREN’S FAULT, and comparing kids…

I was particularly fond of this quote from Garcyca:

I’m a few days shy of 34 and my dad was just complaining to my mom (they accidentally ran into each other at the store, the don’t speak socially anymore) that he doesn’t know what to do with me because I “don’t listen to him” and he’s worried.

Giant red flag here: prior to the court case, all the father’s visits with the kids were supervised. He’s either abusive or wildly unstable if that’s the case, and that decision would not have been made based on the mother hating him and/or the kids being brainwashed. Generally supervised visits mean “you’re a failure…

Yeah my daughter has refused to see her father for the last two years. HE will tell you it’s because I tell her horrible lies about him and cause her psychological problems and refuse to let him talk to her.

But she’s a judge, not a randome person. Her ideas on other people’s lives can RUIN them. Fuck her.

Any father who condones this, and yes, I’m looking at the father here, is not a father who truly loves his children. That just confirms to me that these children are being used as footballs by their parents.

The mother could be a monster and I would still think that the judge was abusive to those children. Her language was abusive. Putting them into juvie was abusive. The children need therapy, not jail.

THIS! My mom never said anything bad about my dad while I was growing up, they divorced when I was two, and sometime around the age of 7 or 8 I stopped wanting to go on the scheduled “every other weekend” like full on tantrums didn’t want to be there.

Given that their father left them in jail not allowed to see one another or have their mom or any of her family visit while he fucked off out of the country for two weeks, I’m entirely willing to believe they’ve got damn good reasons for wanting nothing to do with him.

Has it occurred to the judge and the father that by jailing them and now with the camp supervision scenario that is only going to make the kids dislike their father even more. Especially he didn't seem too disturbed to protest the incarceration ruling, he could have cancelled or tried to nullify his claim at the…

Nothing creates the foundation for a healthy parent child-relationship like coercion: “You will bond with your father or you will learn to live life without your right thumb. Now, hug him. Hug him, damn it!”