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divorcing the parents(biological)
March 14, 2008 - 04:22 AM
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i heard in the US a child can divorce his parents is this true and if so how on earth do such be allowed.is this the children's rights we are pushing for?i can not help wonder where the world is heeded to if such thing is ever allowed to happen.
i need to inputs is this true if its true should it be allowed to continue
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Re: divorcing the parents(biological)
March 14, 2008 - 09:51 AM
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What you heard is sort of true. Its not a divorce, but there is a process called emancipation where a person under the age of majority (18 in the US and in Canada) are able to petition the court to be treated as a legal adult. This means that the parents will no longer be responsible for the child and the child will no longer be responsible to the parent. It is not very common and is generally used in cases when the parents are neglectful, when a child under the age of 18 really wants to enlist in the military or get married but their parents will not give them permission etc. To be emancipated the minor has to prove that he or she will be able to sustain themselves financially. In Canada, if the person can not fully sustain them self because of schooling committments (and they are under 18) there is a child welfare sort of program that will allow them to sustain themself while they are a full time student.
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Re: divorcing the parents(biological)
March 16, 2008 - 05:57 AM
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oh boy!
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Re: divorcing the parents(biological)
March 17, 2008 - 01:42 AM
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Oh man what on earth is happening? what is in a name that you may call a rose to me this sound like divorce.if you dont have anything to do with your parents and the reverse being true whats the difference with divorce? to who will these kids be accountable to?themselves?give me a break! there as a show on one ricki lake about a kid wanting to "divorce" her parents because they were no allowing her to have a kid. and this girl was literally a kid on her own she was 16!! is this emancipation thing have to do with human rights? what is the source of such a thing.to me its an abomination your parents are ypur parents even if they are the devils from hell.remeber there is a blood bond and the is no stronger bond than the blood covenant.
come guys i really need to understand this thing
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Re: divorcing the parents(biological)
March 17, 2008 - 01:55 AM
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I absolutely agree with Dkaiyo. Although I live in the West I never accepted Western lifestyle or mentality, and much of that comes from such issues that you are discussing above. I think the destruction of a society starts from the destruction of the family...what we can see right now happening.
Tanya
This post was edited on: 2008-03-17 at 01:56 AM by: TanyaN
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Re: divorcing the parents(biological)
March 17, 2008 - 10:47 PM
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This thread is being moved to "Culture and Identity" forum where it fits in.
Regards
Shweta
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Re: divorcing the parents(biological)
March 19, 2008 - 12:37 PM
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I think its essential to understand the conditions that these petiitions are being granted. This first became well known when child "stars" were out earning their parents but the parents were misusing said child's money and not looking out for that child's best interests. These children emancipate themselves so they'll still have a savings and a college fund left to them before their parents spend all of it. Also, the children are typically self sufficient. Arguements about child parent bonds are overly idealistic since we are all aware there are times that parents are not what they should be.
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Re: divorcing the parents(biological)
March 20, 2008 - 01:51 AM
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you are right about abusive parents and all.but i think ' emacipation' is not the best solution. my question is to who will these kids be accountable to?divorcing them will not take away the fact that they are your parents even if they are devils of this world.you share their blood.maybe african culture and western culture differ in the way they value children.does the concept of extended family exists over that side?should we allow money to break the family structure.is it a concept of human rights or what?i really need to understand this emacipation thing or as i like to call it divorcing your parents
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Re: divorcing the parents(biological)
March 27, 2008 - 06:27 AM
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confounded22 wrote:
I think its essential to understand the conditions that these petiitions are being granted. This first became well known when child "stars" were out earning their parents but the parents were misusing said child's money and not looking out for that child's best interests. These children emancipate themselves so they'll still have a savings and a college fund left to them before their parents spend all of it. Also, the children are typically self sufficient. Arguements about child parent bonds are overly idealistic since we are all aware there are times that parents are not what they should be.
This is rather absurd, i'm actually hearing this for the first time. (I'm learning, realling learning about other peoples' culture on TIG.)
Well come to think of it, Emancipation is not the best solution to such families where parents are negligent of their duties and not living up to expectations. I think such children should be under Government supervision for a period of time until they see changes in their Parents. The adverse effect of such disintegration might be fatal in the future, it could cause enmity between Parent-Child and bring perpetual seperation. And if we must work towards the integral development of our communities/Nation, I think we need to promote things that would bring Unity and love in such homes and not pave way for disintegration. The family is the basic unit of the society and at such, we need not get the foundation faulted.
It's true that there are some parents who are not what they should be as "Confounded22" righly said, well, how about those children that are not living up to expectations too? Should their parents give up on them and get them divorced too?? And, If every parent should divorce their wayward kids and kids divorce their parents. . .then, there would be universal divorce. I'm sure we don't pray for this, because a house divided against itself shall not stand.
It's my view anyway. 
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Re: divorcing the parents(biological)
April 3, 2008 - 07:23 AM
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amen sister olowetee!!!!
if the children can be 'Emancipated' can the parents also be emancipated from troublesome parents?
children need to be responsible nad accountable not only to themselves but their parents and those in authority above them.
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