"I do wish that more children sue their parents for neglect and abuse."
This is about being held accountable. Again, it's not about money!

I understand your point about making parents accountable for their actions but law suits are the wrong place for that. This is the point i am making.

This case had nothing to do with neglect or abuse and could not be dealt with by granting a child the right not to be negelcted or abuse. they alreday have that right under law.

You are quite right that this case was about the child bouncing one parent off the other. Dad said she cant go so she got mum to give her authority to go through the use of the courts. My concern is based upon my experience of engaging with family law in the UK and having an appreciation of the nonsense that gets passed off as justice behind the closed doors and secrecy of the courts , especially concerning childtren.

You are quite right, this was a rediculous lawsuit but the facts are that it occured and the result was that the courts saw fit to stamp its authority over the fathers in matters that had nothing to do with abuse or neglect and it sets a precedent that no doubt will come to bite us all on the ass some day.

Children whose parents abuse or neglect them are best dealt with by crimminal courts because abuse and neglect are crimes and recieve a much more thorough testing of evidence than civil courts. I guess thats what bothers me the most about any promotion of taking parents to civil court if in the eyes of a child they feel hard done by,as the term abuse covers such a wide range of things that everything is arguably potentially abuse. Even potentially denying your child a trip camping.