Maine court grants father final say on daughter's church attendance in religious upbringing dispute

The daughter experienced panic attacks and anxiety from church teachings about the Rapture and messages characterizing her father as an enemy of her faith.

In a custody dispute that touches the oldest tensions between parental authority, religious conviction, and a child's psychological wellbeing, Maine's Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a father may determine whether his eleven-year-old daughter attends her mother's evangelical church. The court's reasoning rested not on the content of the faith itself, but on the way the church's messaging cast the father as a spiritual adversary in his daughter's eyes — a distinction that may prove consequential as the case moves toward a potential U.S. Supreme Court hearing. At its heart, this is a story

Maine court grants father final say on daughter's church attendance in religious upbringing dispute

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