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Babysitters Gain Parental Rights?

"Perhaps we get too comfortable in the thought that our freedom to homeschool our own children, and discipline them our way, will always be a given. Imagine if your state was thinking differently and wanted to take that freedom away, little by little." -david

Babysitters Gain Parental Rights?

The right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children is hanging by a thread.

• A West Virginia mother was shocked when a local circuit judge and a family court judge ordered her to share custody of her four-year-old daughter with two of the girl’s babysitters. Referring to the sitters as "psychological co-parents," the justices first awarded full custody to them, only permitting the mother to visit her daughter four times a week at McDonalds. Eventually she was granted primary custody, but forced to continue to share her daughter with the sitters.
  
  When her case finally reached the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in October 2007, the beleaguered mother was relieved to finally be granted full custody of her daughter.
  
  In their October 25 opinion Supreme Court justices wrote that they were "deeply troubled by the utter disregard" for the mother's rights. One justice referred to the mother’s right as the “paramount right in the world." Chief Justice Robin Davis summed up the case in one simple question."Why does a natural parent have to prove fitness when she has never been found unfit?" he asked.³

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