An English court has ruled that a father should get custody of his two children because his ex-wife uses the Internet to meet men, British newspapers reported on Thursday.
The court of appeal in London rejected the mother’s challenge to a lower court decision awarding her ex-husband custody of their daughter and son, The Times and Guardian newspapers said.
None of the family members has been named for legal reasons.
In February, a court in the family’s home county of
Hertfordshire, southern England, ruled that the children should live with their father because his ex-wife used the Internet for ”social and sexual contact” with men.
The judge said there was a danger she would ”uproot” her children, who are three and four, by moving in with a man she barely knew. He ruled that life with their father would provide the children greater stability.
The mother’s lawyer called the county judge’s decision
irrational and said the children would be best cared for by their mother, who had quit work to look after them.
But on Wednesday, appeal court judges Sir Matthew Thorpe and Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss said the county court’s decision should stand. – Sapa-AP