And some more week-end humor. Or is it?

[easymoney]

Dad declared “unfit parent” by court-appointed psychiatrist for not taking his kid to McDonalds…in NYC

posted at 2:01 pm on November 8, 2013 by Steve Eggleston

Usually, when one sees “McDonald’s” and “New York City” in the same sentence, it is a description of the latest attack on the fast-food industry by soon-to-be-former mayor Michael Bloomberg. However, in this child custody case reported by the New York Post, it is the refusal of the father in the middle of a divorce to take ...:

Attorney David Schorr slapped a court-appointed shrink with a defamation lawsuit for telling the judge deciding a custody battle with his estranged wife that he was an unfit parent — for refusing to take his son to the fast food joint for dinner.

“You’d think it was sexual molestation,” Schorr, 43, told The Post Thursday. “I am just floored by it.”

Schorr says in his Manhattan Supreme Court suit that E. 97th Street psychiatrist Marilyn Schiller filed a report saying he was “wholly incapable of taking care of his son” and should be denied his weekend visitation over the greasy burger ban.

Schorr, a corporate attorney turned consultant with degrees from NYU and Oxford University, had planned to take his 4-year-old son to their usual restaurant, the Corner Café on Third Avenue, for his weekly Tuesday night visitation last week.

But the boy threw a temper tantrum and demanded McDonald’s. So he gave his son an ultimatum: dinner anywhere other than McDonald’s — or no dinner.

“The child, stubborn as a mule, chose the ‘no dinner’ option,” the disgruntled dad says in the suit.

I’ve heard of some nasty divorces, but this one comes very close to taking the cake. Summarizing what happened after Schorr dropped off his son, his son told his mother, who has primary custody of him, that his father refused to take him to McDonald’s. The mother got the court to appoint the psychiatrist at a cost to the father. The psychiatrist only interviewed the child and the mother before telling the court that due at least in part to the refusal of the father to acquiesce to the child’s out-of-the-ordinary demand of McDonald’s, he should be denied his visitation rights.

I guess in New York City, it is now damned if you do, damned if you don’t. We’ll know for certain in December when the judge decides on the issue.

[Willy]

A clear demonstration of an idiot mother, a spoiled child, a biased, liberal and stupid therapist and an incompetent judge, all teaming up to reflect what is wrong with the ignorant side of American society.

[XLFD]

And once again showing that with enough practitioners of an inexact science, you can get just about any result verified by a so-called 'expert' that you want.  Now the dad will have to get another expert to refute the crazy psychiatrist, and hope the judge sees through the bizarre opinion. 

[Willy]

Just because the parents are divorcing doesn't negate each parents right to be a parent. If the dad felt the child should eat healthier then that's his decision as a parent. The child is obviously spoiled and get's his way with the mother as demonstrated by his attitude and the reaction of the mother. This situation was no big deal until the mother made a major case over it. The child was not mistreated but all of those people overreacted to a silly situation. From the mother on down those in "authority" acted like spoiled children themselves. What lesson did the child learn from this? If you don't get your way just throw a tantrum and mommy will make it right. Having said that, this is another sad case of adults unable to do the right thing and raise kids in an intact and secure family environment.

[Willy]

I'm going by what has been reported in the story and your speculating on what the dad was thinking and making assumptions from information not presented. Even if you were correct, what difference does it make. He's the dad and is responsible for what the child eats when he has custody. It's the mother who blew this way out of proportion and involved the courts. The mother caused the problem not the dad. When the kid told his mother that his dad didn't let him have Mcdonalds the mother should have told the kid it was up to his dad to feed him when they were together and it was  his dad's decision as to what will be for dinner. Instead she took the situation to and insane level and set an  extremely bad example for the child.