Our home is safe, and we are both loving, careful parents. Our 22-month old son is thriving here under our care.
For many reasons, our marriage counselor, my family, and me all agree that my wife lives out of unreasonable fear and paranoia and needs counseling and perhaps medication.
She, unsurprisingly, has not responded well to these attempts to care for her and is threatening to leave and take our son to stay several counties away.
As of now, my wife is planning on leaving and I suspect that no attempt at reconciliation will succeed. It seems that things are heading to a legal separation, or divorce.
We live in an inner-city neighborhood that, though still urban, is increasingly being gentrified and old homes are being torn down for new, fancy condos. The neighborhood is thriving and lots of new businesses, restaurants and shops are opening. I've met many young couples with young children who've recently moved into our street specifically and the neighborhood generally. Our home itself is safe and beautifully renovated. It fits our family and our needs.
My wife feels the neighborhood itself is unsafe and merely living here is endangering our child.
Can she make that argument legally?
Wouldn't that put the court in the position of making a precedent that any parents raising their children in this neighborhood are endangering their children?
For many reasons, our marriage counselor, my family, and me all agree that my wife lives out of unreasonable fear and paranoia and needs counseling and perhaps medication.
She, unsurprisingly, has not responded well to these attempts to care for her and is threatening to leave and take our son to stay several counties away.
As of now, my wife is planning on leaving and I suspect that no attempt at reconciliation will succeed. It seems that things are heading to a legal separation, or divorce.
We live in an inner-city neighborhood that, though still urban, is increasingly being gentrified and old homes are being torn down for new, fancy condos. The neighborhood is thriving and lots of new businesses, restaurants and shops are opening. I've met many young couples with young children who've recently moved into our street specifically and the neighborhood generally. Our home itself is safe and beautifully renovated. It fits our family and our needs.
My wife feels the neighborhood itself is unsafe and merely living here is endangering our child.
Can she make that argument legally?
Wouldn't that put the court in the position of making a precedent that any parents raising their children in this neighborhood are endangering their children?
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