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- The Madras High Court upheld a family court order denying a mother custody of her two minor children, citing her history of sending explicit photos and making late-night calls to other men as detrimental to the children's moral development.
- Judges ruled that the children are at an impressionable age where parental conduct directly impacts their upbringing and welfare.
- The court emphasized that a mother's role includes setting a standard of behavior for her children, which they determined the mother had failed to uphold.
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- Future custody or visitation appeals by the mother
- Impact of the moral welfare standard on similar custody cases in India
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Madras High Court
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“The minors in question are at an impressionable age if their custody is handed over to the appellant mother, considering her admitted conduct, they would grow up without understanding the difference between what is morally and ethically correct”
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…she separated from her husband. A bench of Justices PT Asha and N Mala held that the children, aged seven and nine, were of “impressionable age” and their mother’s company could thus be detrimental to their welfare. “ The minors in question are at an impressionable age if their custody is handed over to the appellant mother, considering her admitted conduct, they would grow up without understanding the difference between what is morally and ethically correct ,” the High Court said. The Court also cited literature, including poetry by the Sufi poet Rumi and the Lebanese-American author Khalil Gibran, to say that a mother’s love for her child must be the purest and most…
“Unfortunately, the appellant before us has failed to remember her duty and status as a mother and that it is the mother who inculcates good behaviour to the children right from the time she breastfeeds her child”
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…to say that a mother’s love for her child must be the purest and most exalting, her stature was supposed to be greater than God’s and that, in the present case, the woman had certainly failed at displaying the same. “ Unfortunately, the appellant before us has failed to remember her duty and status as a mother and that it is the mother who inculcates good behaviour to the children right from the time she breastfeeds her child ,” the High Court said, while upholding an order of the local family court that had denied the woman custody of her two children. As per the order, the couple married on March 23, 2015, in The Nilgiris under Hindu rites…
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