18 year old girl sues parents for support after running away from home

Oranage2 · 05-03-2014 03:17PM

Well it's hard to judge this case without knowing all the details but it's fair to say that kids that blame their parents aren't usually the best of kids.

WellThen? · 05-03-2014 03:24PM

Gatling wrote: »

Talking about a sense of entitlement she must have some Irish blood ,
Amazing how many people can't respect there parents rules in there parents homes that they work and pay for

???

BattleCorp · 05-03-2014 03:24PM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Hmmm... debateable. :pac:

She could be a cnut or her parents could be cnuts... or both could be cnuts. It's kinda hard to come to a conclusion really without knowing the full story.

The message that she left on the phone for her mother leaves me in no doubt that the daughter is indeed what you said above.

cloud493 · 05-03-2014 03:26PM

Spoilt brat. Absolute lunacy on her part.

murphym7 · 05-03-2014 03:33PM

A nice big bill for her parents legal bills will be a nice way to start her young life, the dope.

Deise Vu · 05-03-2014 03:37PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Spoilt brat. Absolute lunacy on her part.

She moved into a friends house and the friend's parents are funding the case. That's where the root of this problem lies. Sane people would have let her stay the night she turned up, then packed her off to her parent's where she belongs. If she decides to skip further education and get a job now is up to her, but expecting to move out and have an education and support paid by her parents is ludicrous.

Of course the friend's father is a lawyer! Only in America as the Don is wont to say.

Paddy Cow · 05-03-2014 03:37PM

It's a very strange situation. The friend's father said he contacted the girl's father twice to try and sort out the situation and got nowhere. If the girl is just an entitled, spoiled brat, why wouldn't her friend's father send her home, rather than fork out $12,000 in legal fees? Plus the school are backing her up, despite her fees not being paid. Neither party comes out looking good in this.

robinph · 05-03-2014 03:47PM

Paddy Cow wrote: »

It's a very strange situation. The friend's father said he contacted the girl's father twice to try and sort out the situation and got nowhere. If the girl is just an entitled, spoiled brat, why wouldn't her friend's father send her home, rather than fork out $12,000 in legal fees? Plus the school are backing her up, despite her fees not being paid. Neither party comes out looking good in this.

The $12,000 in legal fees is probably the friends fathers fee and his attempt to sort thing out with the girls dad was probably about him threatening to take him to court and what an awesome lawyer he is.
The school don't care, they just want someone, anyone, to pay their fees...and the lawyer guy is probably on the board of the school or something as well.

Femme_Fatale · 06-03-2014 01:25AM

WellThen? wrote: »

???

Some people have this obsession with going on about how certain dreadful traits are specific to Irish people (apart from themselves) rather than just being universal.

Femme_Fatale · 06-03-2014 01:27AM

In this, on the face of it, she does seem the cnut.

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Parents making up the rules for their children who are living in the house paid for the parents?!?!?!?!?! What sort of crazy society are we living in???? When will the madness stop??????

The one trump card every parent has is "my house, my rules". If you don't like their rules, you go get your own place and make your own rules but then you also pay your own way.

Surely it depends on what the rules are. Unfortunately in a small number of houses there are rules like "Look at me crooked and you'll get a pasting."
"If you don't like it, leave" does not apply in these cases; "Stop abusing your kids" does.

Yeah_Right · 06-03-2014 09:25AM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

In this, on the face of it, she does seem the cnut.

Surely it depends on what the rules are. Unfortunately in a small number of houses there are rules like "Look at me crooked and you'll get a pasting."
"If you don't like it, leave" does not apply in these cases; "Stop abusing your kids" does.

Yeah I get what you are saying. Obviously abuse isn't covered under the My house My rules.
From what I have seen of this case though, she wants to do whatever she wants but have her parents pay for it. She wants to be an adult and a child.

cofy · 06-03-2014 12:12PM

The friends father will get lots of publicity from this, and will probably end up suing for his expenses in Judge Judy's court room.

IrishEyes19 · 06-03-2014 04:06PM

fair enough about her being over 18, legally an adult,

but were the allegations of sexual abuse true, Im surprised people are taking such a harsh stance on it. I wouldnt stay either if that was the case

Gatling · 06-03-2014 04:07PM

IrishEyes19 wrote: »

fair enough about her being over 18, legally an adult,

but were the allegations of sexual abuse true, Im surprised people are taking such a harsh stance on it. I wouldnt stay either if that was the case

Where did you get the sexual abuse claim from ??

robinph · 06-03-2014 04:13PM

Gatling wrote: »

Where did you get the sexual abuse claim from ??

She made vague suggestions against her dad, but didn't actually say that anything happened. In the hope of swaying the opinion against him, but without her actually having to state that anything happened that might then be found as being made up.

dark crystal · 06-03-2014 04:20PM

Gatling wrote: »

Where did you get the sexual abuse claim from ??

From the article:

She (Rachel) went on: ‘My father gave me the sense that he was inappropriately affectionate with me. He mentioned frequently that my relationship in his eyes was not one of a daughter, but more than that.
‘In the summer before my senior year he got me drunk at a wedding and said I was his date. He kept giving me shots and mango martinis. I blacked out that night and woke up at the toilet bowl in our room and he was in bed.

....‘He constantly put his arm around me in public and would kiss me on the cheek. When we moved to Hackettstown, he once woke me up at 2am to come down to play beer pong with him. The refrigerator was about 75 per cent full of liquor.’

But further down:

She (Rachel's mother) went on: ‘Rachel’s allegation that there was anything other than a father/daughter relationship is utterly offensive… there was never anything remotely sexual or conduct that could be considered in any way sexual. My husband loves his daughter – as a daughter – nothing more.
‘She was the apple of his eye.’
The couple submitted letters to the court which state a Department of Children and Families investigation cleared them. Mrs Canning added: 'In fact, the case worker told us that it was in her opinion that we spoiled our daughter. We gave her too much'.

As a parent, that's got to be one of the most hurtful allegations a child can throw at you if untrue.

Thrill · 12-03-2014 08:10PM

That girl has dropped the suit against her parents.

ROSELAND, N.J. - The New Jersey honor student who sued to get her parents to support her after she moved out of their home has reunited with them, and the family is now asking for privacy.

The lawyer representing Rachel Canning's parents, made the request during a news conference on Wednesday.

Angelo Sarno says the 18-year-old's return is not contingent on any financial or other considerations.

He says that the suit has been settled "amicably," but refused to comment further on the suit.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-jersey-student-who-sued-parents-drops-suit/

Nidgeweasel · 12-03-2014 08:15PM

A good kick in the gowl would do her no harm.

18 year old girl sues parents for support after running away from home

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