That Wasn’t Judge Judy! Poem by Joe Rosochacki

When I was growing up in Detroit, (day-twa)
There was a different country on the other side of the river,
It was quaint, what I saw, Windsor to be exact,
They spoke mostly English like us, except for the ‘aye’,
The Anglophile Canadians would interject in an interrogative sliver,
But however they had their political complications as far as Quebec,
The Francophile Canadians spoke French like Pe-Pe La Pew,
(according to the French people that I have spoken to) ,
The Canadians were much more progressive than the US,
Gambling, Nude Bars, and ‘legal’ escort services to name a few,
But the two together, Quebec and progressive attitudes, ‘what the heck? ’
Is happening here?
A 12 year old girl took her dad to court,
This is some kind of ‘misjustice’ of a sort;
If you consider the source,

The 12-year-old girl's parents are divorced;
in the spring of 2008, the girl's mom gave her permission to go on a class trip to Quebec City in June.
But the middle-schooler lived with her father,
and after she disobeyed daddy's orders to stay off the Internet,
he told her she couldn't go.
So what did she do?
She took him to court. Of course.

Where it shouldn't belong.

A lower court sided with the pre-teen,
Her father was ‘flabbergasted’ he would seek to right this wrong,

He did appeal but the courts ruling came against again,
His attorney, Kim Beaudoin,
will take this to the Canadian Supreme Court
Among other things,
like presidential elections in the US by its court,
That shouldn’t belong,

Why can’t parenting be a simple as Ozzie and Harriet,
Or like on Bonanza with Ben Cartwright with his sons, Adam, Joe, and Hoss.

But, the attorney adds, the father has no regrets about the court proceedings. 'Either way, he doesn't have authority over this child anymore. She sued him because she doesn't respect his rules, ' Beaudoin said. 'It's very hard to raise a child who is the boss.'

(4-10-09)