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Son Sues Mother Over Facebook Posts

Most kids hate having their parents join in on a discussion on Facebook, but one 16-year-old in Arkansas hates it so much he has filed suit against his mother, charging her with harassment. From the article: "An Arkadelphia mother is charged with harassment for making entries on her son's Facebook page. Denise New's 16-year-old son filed charges against her last month and requested a no-contact order after he claims she posted slanderous entries about him on the social networking site. New says she was just trying to monitor what he was posting." Seems like he could just unfriend her.

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  1. Re:16 years old, no legal rights against parents. by commodore64_love · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    >>>Parents have total power of attorney till the kid is eighteen

    The world doesn't work like that anymore. I heard a story a few days where Parents lost custody of their kid because, "They were teaching the child that the government can not be trusted." You are no longer the ultimate master in your home - your kids are, and they are backed the Child Protective Services. You teach the wrong thing, and you will lose custody.

    It's moving towards 1984 where parents were afraid to speak, for fear the kids would report them, and the CPS would arrest the mom and dad.

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  2. Re:The real question by wykell · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Or how they managed to do so when there isn't even new-fangled 'lectricity there yet.

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  3. Re:16 years old, no legal rights against parents. by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well if ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, et cetera are censoring the news by ignoring these stories, then you have to turn to alternate sources. For example, notice how they described the "hate speech" coming from Tea Party protestors, but completely ignored the anti-war riots happening in Berkeley just one week earlier. Or how they reported on the "Obama is a Nazi" posters, but completely ignored the "Bush is a Nazi" or "Bush is a chimp" posters in 2008.

    Or the black man that Obama supporters beat to a pulp last month. These TV news organizations have sold-out to Democrats and only present the news that favors Democrats, while ignoring news that does not. And why not? Democrats have pledged to work with RIAA and MPAA to protect the TV/movie industry's productions.

    Hence the nickname - DNC-NBC. Links to child custody case:
    (read the CPS report at the bottom of the page)
    http://trueslant.com/stephenwebster/2010/03/30/tx-county-teaching-kids-government-is-out-to-harm-them-makes-parents-unsuitable/
    (google) http://www.google.com/search?q=seize+Child+distrusting+Government

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  4. Re:The real question by black88 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Racist much?

  5. Newflash Mother gets sued by son for doing her job by Orion+Blastar · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Let's see every Internet safety class I went to for my son says I have to monitor his Internet usage and then report on it.

    When he acts up or misbehaves I have to let him know what he did and use empathy and consequences and how he can correct it to grow up and become a responsible adult that has good behavior, good actions, and makes good decisions and has a good system of morals and ethics. This is also how Critical Thinking works.

    But many disagree on how Child Psychology should work and Maddox says don't be a p*ssy beat your kids if she followed the Maddox method he wouldn't even sue her for slander.

    The kid is a retard, slander is the spoken word, libel is the written word, I worked for lawyers for four and a half years so I know stuff like that.

    If he was my son and did crap like that on Facebook, I'd take away his Internet privileges until he learns his lesson about responsibility and making good decisions instead of bad ones. That would be a consequence of his bad decisions and bad behavior on Facebook and the rest of the Internet. But I'd bet I'd still get sued as the ACLU will claim I violated his rights to troll people on Facebook, Kuro5hin, Slashdot, The Daily Kos, 4Chan, Blogger, Current, Digg, Reddit, etc.

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  6. Re:No contact. by geekoid · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, your real good at your job.

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  7. Re:No contact. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm sure that's true. But most sad sack losers aren't born sociopaths. They had their loser-nature beaten into them by circumstance. Most of the real sociopathic parasites on the ass of society are CEOs or board members of Fortune 500 companies, not sad children of broken families. Blame the sociopaths, not their victims.

    Wow, you must live such a sheltered life.

    Drugged-out derelicts prostituting their own children are "sad children of broken families"?

    Here's a clue, shit-for-brains: damn near every "sad child of a broken family" DOESN'T prostitute their own child.

    And guess what, bright boy? Some "happy children from a great family" do even worse things. See, oh, maybe Ted Bundy. Or Mohammed Atta.

    When a dog is raised badly and pisses on the floor, you blame the owners.

    When a human turns out to be a sociopath, you blame that human. Because humans have greater awareness and free will and are held to a higher standard.

    Except by morons like you, who prefer to treat humans exactly like dogs when behavoir is the subject. And you can't even pass up a chance to take an infantile and probably based on nothing buy envy swipe at people more successful than you.

    Got the stones to actually think about how you treat human misbehavoir exactly the same as canine misbehavoir: somebody else's fault?

    Why do I think the answer is no?

  8. Re:No contact. by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I kind of figured this out. A few screens up when you de-cloaked I said to myself 'there is no way this dud is a counselor or care-giver at a social service agency.'

    So you're basically one of the janitors. The information janitor. Your resentment has an interesting way of surfacing.

  9. Re:No contact. by BobMcD · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Good point. Chalk it up to my assessment, and take with the requisite grain of salt.

    Better question, why on earth does it bother you enough to post about it?

    If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But my time on this planet has led me to believe I'm correct often enough to make judgments on limited information. You're free to disagree, if you'd like, but I'm free to keep on keeping on as well.

    So we're both just wasting a lot of time here, and I'm led to wonder why you bothered.