![]() ![]() The fact that one needs to bear in mind when reading this judgment or any press reports about it, is that this is the only world these five children, ranging in age from 12 down to 2, have ever known. ![]() The judgments both in that case and in this one paint a portrait of an incredibly tight-knit society isolated from all outside influences and determined to remain so, living by rules derived from the first five books of the Old Testament and their interpretations by elders and teachers.įor those of us who choose to live modern lives, an idea of a community that prohibits newspapers and social media, insists on separate-gender schooling from early years, arranged marriages and where single-parent families are almost unheard of, may be difficult to imagine. There have been a number of recent judgments in the family courts concerning communities such as these: we wrote about one here. It’s also captured the attention of the press, too, which portrays it as a struggle between modern and ancient ways of life, putting the Charedi community in the spotlight again. Because of that, it’s rare when reported cases get to us, and one this week really has: it’s judgment on an application by a father of 5 children in the Orthodox Jewish community for contact with those children, complicated by the fact that this father is transgender and now living outside the community as a woman. We have to develop emotional toughness, because if we felt every pain caused to our fellow men and women deeply and personally, we’d be no use as lawyers or mediators. As family lawyers we bear witness to a great many distressing situations. ![]()
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