Has anyone seen this documentary? It follows a woman trying to leave the Hasidic Jewish community due to years of abuse (physical and emotional). I felt so awlful for the mother getting 1 hour of visitation per week, because of status quo. The scene where she tells her support group the judges decision and they all sit there silent, no one knowing what to say, because, really there is nothing anyone could say, heartbreaking.
It seemed so odd. I dont know enough about how courts work in Canada, but I hope that could not happen here. The basic premise was a woman who left an abusive relaitonship, who had no help from her community in this relationship, felt she needed to leave her husband and was shunned by the community, also her entire family turned against her, no money, no decent job because has no schooling or training due to children leave school at 13 years old, vs. the lawyers the religious community hires, and use status quo to say children must stay with the father. How status quo trumps best interest of the child is mind boggling. It was even brought into court, implications the mother was not modest enough, wearing socks instead of tights, and reading "secular" books was bad.
It seemed so odd. I dont know enough about how courts work in Canada, but I hope that could not happen here. The basic premise was a woman who left an abusive relaitonship, who had no help from her community in this relationship, felt she needed to leave her husband and was shunned by the community, also her entire family turned against her, no money, no decent job because has no schooling or training due to children leave school at 13 years old, vs. the lawyers the religious community hires, and use status quo to say children must stay with the father. How status quo trumps best interest of the child is mind boggling. It was even brought into court, implications the mother was not modest enough, wearing socks instead of tights, and reading "secular" books was bad.
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