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updated Apr 08, 2011

By Author - LawCrossing

06/23/08

The girl had posted photos of herself on an Internet dating site (At age 12? Precocious!) and then had a fight with her stepmother, so her father grounded her from the computer and from an upcoming school trip.

So the girl took it to court — and won. Justice Suzanne Tessier of the Quebec Superior Court ruled that the father couldn't ground the girl.

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Apparently, there has been a custody dispute, which is how the girl got access to a lawyer in the first place — there was a series of lawyers involved, and one of them represented her in court. Still, this raises the troublesome issue of what forms of discipline are available for parents if grounding is now "excessive punishment." While the lawyer for the girl tried to claim teenagers won't be allowed to flock to the courts to get their parents' punishments removed, it is not certain how this can fail to be seen as a massive curtailment of parents' rights.

At least this is only in Quebec so far and hopefully will not spread to other places soon.
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