Divorce Children Want It From Parents

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What happens if a child doesn't want to live with his uncaring, unloving parents? If it's the US, the child can simply seek a ‘divorce'. Just like Home Alone child star Macaulay Culkin did when his father started misappropriating his money. Or when a Florida teenager moved court to be separated from his parents, because they refused to buy him a Nintendo console! But for many, it's usually lack of love and time from parents which forces them to take such extreme measures.

‘Divorce' or emancipation, the legal term under American law, involves seeking a separation from parents much before the legal age. The parents' consent is a must before the court declares a child emancipated. The child, then, is responsible for his/her own welfare but cannot drink, drive or go to a nightclub - all of which have an age limit.

has mirrored this reality in films like Irreconciliable Differences (1984), where a young girl (Drew Barrymore) seeks a divorce from her parents and wants to be placed under the care of another person. And while this may be unheard of in India, first-time M J Ramanan has chosen to make a movie on it as well. Meri Bhi Suno , the story of a boy who wants a divorce from his busy, inconsiderate parents, is currently awaiting release.

It was a widely reported case involving an American teenager that first drew the filmmaker's attention to the issue, but what really convinced him to go ahead was the ‘‘all-pervasiveness'' of the problem. “Most working parents are not able to devote time to their children. I saw it happening with my friends and even in my own family. My nieces and nephews felt lonely as their parents were always busy. Once my sister and brother-in-law even failed to turn up at their son's annual function at school. The child kept waiting for them all through the event,” recounts Ramanan.

The malaise is growing in urban India, and the filmmaker realized this when he met a judge while researching the film. “He cited various cases, including one in Kolkata where a custody battle was fought between parents and grandparents - the child wanted to live with the latter. Everybody knows the problem exists, but they don't know how to solve it,” he says. The film, he insists, doesn't blame the parents but tries to present the problem objectively. Ramanan agrees the idea of ‘emancipation' is i to Indian ethos. ‘‘But unless we wake up to the problem, it may become a reality here as well,'' he warns.

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Nice Article !
I have been in this situation ..I used to fight with my mom for working when i was young (never my father ..though he was also away) ....I wanted her to quit and sit with me ...eventhough my mom gave me her time ..she taught me ,came to all funtions ,took me out ..but still i wanted her to be ta home ..
i refused to take medicine(she was a doc) citing the reason that i cant stay with my kids ...but never thought of divorcing them ..
Now I am a working women and yet to have kids ..but i dont think i can quit my job unless otherwise it is really needed ...I can understand the importance of career and what does that to a women..I can understand my mom now ..
As kids , we need our mother all the time ...but i guess that is just a phase ..
as long as a women knows to balance life and give her as much attention to kid ..i think we still can cope up with this fast world..
And as far as I have seen not all americans are like that , all the people I have met here they give equal importance to their familes as much as us ..one of my user she quit her job to take care of her kid ...So I think it is not to do with cultures ...i think it has to do with each individuals

Originally Posted by Rogo

Nice Article !
I have been in this situation ..I used to fight with my mom for working when i was young (never my father ..though he was also away) ....I wanted her to quit and sit with me ...eventhough my mom gave me her time ..she taught me ,came to all funtions ,took me out ..but still i wanted her to be ta home ..
i refused to take medicine(she was a doc) citing the reason that i cant stay with my kids ...but never thought of divorcing them ..
Now I am a working women and yet to have kids ..but i dont think i can quit my job unless otherwise it is really needed ...I can understand the importance of career and what does that to a women..I can understand my mom now ..
As kids , we need our mother all the time ...but i guess that is just a phase ..
as long as a women knows to balance life and give her as much attention to kid ..i think we still can cope up with this fast world..
And as far as I have seen not all americans are like that , all the people I have met here they give equal importance to their familes as much as us ..one of my user she quit her job to take care of her kid ...So I think it is not to do with cultures ...i think it has to do with each individuals

Dear rogo,
when is the time a child can do without his mother may be once he is into his 20's but by then woman would had lost the chance for any career outside, now each mother has a commitment towards the child if she plans for one.
those days woman were more happier, less divorce not because they did not know or could never handle, actually they were more stronger at home as man was completely Dependant on her for the home that he was trying to build.

now those men are also gone and woman have changed with the new weapon of independancy and freedom,it can only affect the children, they who become celebrity are brain washed into sueing their parents for taking the money....pathetic it is, so when a mother is available she balances many things in life..ego plays a rotten role and the you and me are two different now, it was'nt before..sunkan