No Disneyland trip
The Age
Saturday February 12, 2011
A father has been banned by the Family Court from taking his 11-year-old twin daughters to Disneyland because their relationship could be damaged if the trip did not go well.The girls were scared of flying, caused in part by watching TV shows like Air Crash Investigations and had told their mother that they didn't want to go to the US.The father claimed the mother, from whom he is separated, "put the girls up to it". But the court heard the girls were "adamant that they do not wish to go to Disneyland" because it is "too far away" and they didn't want to sleep on a plane.A federal magistrate said if the girls were forced to go to Disneyland, and during the trip had a bad time or were scared, it may make them resentful of their father.
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