{"id":53,"date":"2003-10-15T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2003-10-15T19:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/court_to_parent_speak_english\/"},"modified":"2003-10-15T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2003-10-15T19:55:52","slug":"court_to_parent_speak_english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/court_to_parent_speak_english\/","title":{"rendered":"Court to Parent: Speak English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To The Barricades! writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tothebarricades.com\/000681.html\">on a strange court ruling<\/a> where a father is being ordered to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/index.php?u_pg=675&#038;u_sid=886654\">speak English as a condition of his visitation rights<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt is important for all Americans to learn English.  If a parent is affirmatively preventing his or her child from learning English, one might argue that court intervention is justified on the grounds that it&#8217;s in the child&#8217;s best interest.<br \/>\nBut according to the story, that doesn&#8217;t appear to be the case here.  The daughter at issue doesn&#8217;t even know Spanish&#8211;her father claims he&#8217;s trying to teach it to her.   Interestingly, the judge is allowing this limited usage, but insists that the father primarily speak English.<br \/>\nHow is this order in the child&#8217;s best interest?  Can&#8217;t she learn <i>both<\/i> languages, speaking Spanish with her father and English everywhere else?  I don&#8217;t know all the facts in this case, but on its face I fail to see how the judge&#8217;s imposition into the parent\/child relationship is warranted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/court_to_parent_speak_english\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Court to Parent: Speak English\"><p>To The Barricades! writes on a strange court ruling where a father is being ordered to speak English as a condition of his visitation rights. It is important for all Americans to learn English. If a parent is affirmatively preventing his or her child from learning English, one might argue that court intervention is justified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}