Adult children’s ‘bad mothering’ lawsuit dismissed BY STEVE SCHMADEKE Chicago Tribune
First published Aug 27 2011 07:01PM Updated 7 hours ago
Chicago • Raised in a $1.5 million Barrington Hills, Ill., home by their attorney father, two grown children have spent the last two years pursuing a unique lawsuit against their mom for "bad mothering" that alleges damages caused when she failed to buy toys for one and sent another a birthday card he didn’t like.
The alleged offenses include failing to take her daughter to a car show, telling her then 7-year-old son to buckle his seat belt or she would contact police, "haggling" over the amount to spend on party dresses and calling her daughter at midnight to ask that she return home from celebrating homecoming.
Last week, at which point the court record stood about a foot tall, an Illinois appeals court dismissed the case, finding that none of the mother’s conduct was "extreme or outrageous." To rule in favor of her children, the court found, "could potentially open the floodgates to subject family childrearing to ... excessive judicial scrutiny and interference."
In 2009, the children, represented by three attorneys including their father, Steven A. Miner, sued their mother, Kimberly Garrity. Steven II, now 23, and his sister Kathryn, now 20, sought more than $50,000 for "emotional distress."
Miner and Garrity were married for a decade before she filed for divorce in 1995, records show.
Among the exhibits filed in the case is a birthday card Garrity sent her son, who in his lawsuit sought damages because the card was "inappropriate" and failed to include cash or a check. He also alleged she failed to send a card for years or, while he was in college, care packages.
On the front of the American Greetings card is a picture of tomatoes spread across a table that are indistinguishable except for one in the middle with craft-store googly eyes attached.
"Son I got you this Birthday card because it’s just like you ... different from all the rest!" the card reads. On the inside Garrity wrote "Have a great day! Love & Hugs, Mom xoxoxo."........................>>>>.........................>>>>.....................http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/52469658-68/garrity-card-court-lawsuit.html.csp
Are you surprised that this generation, with its super abundance of lawyers and "public policy" students would do this? There is nothing this young generation could come up with that would at all surprise me for its selfishness, ignorance, spoiledness, self-entitlement, and greed. I have a cousin who has kids and is divorced. I could see his ex planning ti encourage the kids to launch a suit like this one day. This is the new cowardly, lawsuit-lovin' America. Got your feelings hurt? Panties in a bunch? Then SUE.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The sad part is that they are made to think that this is some kind of milestone.....as long as the plebs fight amongst themselves and the government continues to act as the feel-good parent, it will continue and we will still continue to think that trimming the branches of the poisonous tree is 'atleast' the best we can do....and no one will kill the root....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Are you surprised that this generation, with its super abundance of lawyers and "public policy" students would do this? There is nothing this young generation could come up with that would at all surprise me for its selfishness, ignorance, spoiledness, self-entitlement, and greed. I have a cousin who has kids and is divorced. I could see his ex planning ti encourage the kids to launch a suit like this one day. This is the new cowardly, lawsuit-lovin' America. Got your feelings hurt? Panties in a bunch? Then SUE.
Generalizing this or that generation deserves some caution. These guys are your generation- there are many ways to deal with family issues.
Deadly Sons: Erik and Lyle Menendez
Aug. 20, 1989 - Beverly Hills police responded to a 911 call from a frantic Lyle Menendez, who screamed that his parents had been murdered.
When police arrived at the palatial Beverly Hills mansion, they found a gruesome scene. Jose Menendez, 45, was missing his head and his brain was splattered across the family room. Kitty Menendez, 47, had her face blown in half with her nose and one eye missing. Her other eye remained wide open. Lyle, 21, and his brother, Erik, 19, were hysterical. They told police that members of the Mafia probably killed their parents.
Are you surprised that this generation, with its super abundance of lawyers and "public policy" students would do this? There is nothing this young generation could come up with that would at all surprise me for its selfishness, ignorance, spoiledness, self-entitlement, and greed. I have a cousin who has kids and is divorced. I could see his ex planning ti encourage the kids to launch a suit like this one day. This is the new cowardly, lawsuit-lovin' America. Got your feelings hurt? Panties in a bunch? Then SUE.
Generalizing this or that generation deserves some caution. I think these guys are your generation ?- Families settle issues differently.
Deadly Sons: Erik and Lyle Menendez
Aug. 20, 1989 - Beverly Hills police responded to a 911 call from a frantic Lyle Menendez, who screamed that his parents had been murdered.
When police arrived at the palatial Beverly Hills mansion, they found a gruesome scene. Jose Menendez, 45, was missing his head and his brain was splattered across the family room. Kitty Menendez, 47, had her face blown in half with her nose and one eye missing. Her other eye remained wide open. Lyle, 21, and his brother, Erik, 19, were hysterical. They told police that members of the Mafia probably killed their parents.
One word for you closer to home "Porco." There was a kid who had it all and fell off the path. Mother is a saint and continues to visit the boy regularly.
This is a disturbed family abusing the legal system. People abuse the system everyday and drag their families through the mud for revenge.
But a Scott Peterson or OJ ending would have been tragic for this woman. This husband found another way to destroy his ex-wife: by turning her children against her and putting her parenting under a microscope.
Sorry, but even if my children sue me, they'll have to obey curfew and won't be getting an x-box anytime soon!
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