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    Parental Rites
    Parental Rites
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    Parental Rites

    By Lawrence Kalkstein

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    Everyone can relate to the hypocrisy or unfair dispensation of justice in our legal system, especially our court system. We often look at the judiciary as the backbone of our legal system assuming it will be fair and honest. Yet Justice Is Blind can quickly become Justice Acting Blindly. When justice is so callous not to maximize compassion and love for a child we can understand why America has a complete moral breakdown. Often people, mistakenly, refer to those in government as the leaders.

    Parental Rites is merely one grandfathers thoughts who is trying to come to grasp with the hatred that emanates from the court system and why the system cant be bothered to try and mend family wounds rather than rubbing salt in them.

    Perhaps the story you are about to read can enlighten others; or perhaps it can help others choose reconciliation over hatred then maybe there is hope for our society. A childhood is too sweet, and too short, to spend battling in court or to carry animosity in ones daily endeavors. We often are told the Judeo-Christian Society is that of compassion and reconciliation. Yet there are those so subsumed in anger and hatred that they merely preach those words on a Sunday but forget them on Monday.

    So ignore the actual names in this story or interpose your own names of people you know or have heard of that have affected you or your loved ones in a parallel manner, and perhaps you can become a leader in a childs life. We certainly cannot let a judge, or the law guardian for any child, who is more eager to play golf, or get to lunch, than dispense justice be a leader in that childs life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateNov 26, 2012
    ISBN9781475949070
    Parental Rites
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    Lawrence Kalkstein

    Lawrence Kalkstein, currently a tax accountant, holds a Master’s Degree in Accounting and a Law Degree. He and his wife, Pam, presently reside in Ridgefield, CT and have three children and three grandchildren.

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      Parental Rites - Lawrence Kalkstein

      Copyright © 2012 by Lawrence Kalkstein.

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      Contents

      Chapter 1      Gotta Focus

      Part A. I Know Who’s Here

      Part B. Collapses On Court

      Part C. Taken to Hospital

      Part D. Transferred to Medical Center

      Part E. Why Wasn’t Mom Here?

      Chapter 2      Speaking About Parents

      Part A. About Half of All Children

      Now Living in One-Parent Households

      Part B. Give Me a Home Where

      the Parents Both Roam

      Part C. Brain Washing-Hmmm

      Part D. Who Hated Mom Worse:

      Dad or the Law Guardian?

      Chapter 3      Thank Goodness For Grandma

      Part A. Geeka Gave Me So Much Love

      Part B. My Attitude Was Not My Fault

      Part C. My Dad Would Not Want Me

      To Be With Them

      Part D. I Was Dad’s Weapon

      To Effectuate That Hatred

      Part E. Grandma Keeps Visiting

      Me in Hospital

      Chapter 4      I’m Getting Worse—Is There A Donor For Me Yet?

      Part A. My Dad Is Going To Regret This

      Part B. I Feel So Alone

      Part C. Grandma Makes Me Smile

      Chapter 5      Fame Is Not So Wonderful

      Part A. I’m the Hot Topic

      Part B. Look! Up in the Sky!

      It’s a Law Guardian?

      Chapter 6      Is Everyone A Politician

      Part A. Who Really Loves Me

      Part B. Cheese It-the Cops

      Part C. Here Come the Judge

      Chapter 7      Whose Life Is It Anyway?

      Part A. Worst Interest of Child

      Part B. Best Interest of Child

      Chapter 8      Hey, I Still Need A Transplant!

      Part A. I’m Back

      Part B. Why Is Life So Difficult?

      Part C. Blame Someone Else

      Part D. Road Trip

      Chapter 9      Could Mom Give Me Life Again?

      Part A. Hi Mom, Remember Me!

      Part B. Time is on My Side… Not

      Part C. Finally

      PREFACE

      A story as envisioned through the eyes of a loving grandpa and his struggles to re-unite a grandson with his loving grandma the world can sometimes seem surreal as to play images in one’s head. But getting the thoughts out as to what could have been, or what may happen, are euphoric or perhaps tragic.

      But a system that uses its children as pawns must be a system without shame. Whether one chooses to take this book as fact or fiction is irrelevant. The fact remains that our judicial system has volumes of cases whereby it fails our most precious resource-children.

      Everyone can relate to the hypocrisy or unfair dispensation of justice in our legal system, especially our court system. We often look at the judiciary as the backbone of our legal system assuming it will be fair and honest. Yet Justice Is Blind can quickly become Justice Acting Blindly.

      Quite a big difference when the court system is overwhelmed or the system has too many Who you know scenarios or is too prejudiced to want to bother to find out the facts because it is too time consuming. We often hear Justice Delayed is Justice Denied. But what is even worse is when there is simply Justice Denied.

      Often Americans are amazed how long it takes for matters to move through the court system. But what is also amazing is when the court system acts so quickly to deny justice simply to clear the calendar. People can wait for weeks or months to have their day in court and then BOOM without reason a one minute appearance in court the judge decides you are not entitled to your trial and denies you that proverbial day in court.

      When justice is so callous not to care as to matters of the compassion and love for a child we can understand why America has a complete moral breakdown. Often people refer to those in government as the leaders. Well perhaps this is true as the American family is evaporating and morality and compassion toward others dissipates. If those in government are truly leaders then perhaps we need to stop following these elected officials (leaders), whether they are in the legislation making process or the judicial decision making process because they obviously lead us in the wrong direction.

      Parental Rites is merely one grandfather’s thoughts who is trying to come to grasp with the hatred that emanates from the court system and why the system can’t be bothered to try and mend family wounds rather than rubbing salt in them. It’s understood there will, unfortunately, be hatred between the parties. The family court system represents the bowels of our society as the child is often the sword to inflict damage on the other parent or other family members. It’s one thing when people and businesses battle over money in court-that is simply greed most of the time. But when a child’s mind becomes the central issue in court and we allow strangers who couldn’t care less about the results they impose upon others then the system has failed us.

      Perhaps the story you are about to read can enlighten others; or perhaps it can help others choose reconciliation over hatred then maybe there is hope for our society. A childhood is too sweet, and too short, to spend battling in court or to carry animosity in one’s daily endeavors. We often are told the Judeo-Christian Society is that of compassion and reconciliation. Yet there are those so subsumed in anger and hatred that they merely preach those words on Sunday but forget them on Monday.

      So ignore the actual names in this story or interpose your own names of people you know or have heard of that have affected you or your loved ones in a parallel manner, and perhaps you can become a leader in a child’s life. We certainly cannot let a judge, or the law guardian for any child, who is more eager to play golf, or get to lunch, than dispense justice be a leader in that child’s life.

      Chapter 1

      Gotta Focus

      Part A. I Know Who’s Here

      So, here I am, a senior at Hendrick Hudson High School. My name is Ryan. I’ll be graduating from high school in a few months. All has been going well. Sure, I’m from a one-parent household. My dad, Liam, portrays himself to be a loving person to me, and as usual, to maintain his public image as a parent, he is in the stands watching the game.

      Here we come out of our locker room. This is my final home game against our archrival Peekskill. Their school is only a few miles away from us. We don’t beat them that often. Peekskill has sent players into the NBA, so to put it mildly, our high school is no match for them.

      But this year we have a chance to beat them for the first time in six years, so we’re especially excited as we join Peekskill on the court. As we enter the home crowd starts yelling, Sailors, Sailors, Go Sailors!

      Coach Bradley has always loved my style of play as a power forward. His assistance and compassion has greatly improved my high school basketball career. I’m only 6'9"-not particularly big for this sport, but a good weight program instituted by coach helped me become one of the best high school power forwards in the county.

      I owe so much to Coach, as he was also instrumental in having Manhattan College offer me a full scholarship for basketball. For a one-parent household, that certainly helps.

      Finances have always been pretty tough. Dad constantly complained about money. He would always let me know that my mom wasn’t paying her fair share of my child support. Not that I needed to hear that from age five, but I guess things could have been worse.

      The crowd is going wild for us. Dad is in the stands. I wish Mom was there too. But ever since youth basketball, Dad would go out of his way to try to exclude Mom from my school and extra-curricular events. Who knows why parents become so fucking stupid? But they sure do!

      My first warm-up shot—a lay-up—banks softly off the backboard and drops in the hoop. I look up again and see many of my high school friends in the stands. I’m feeling a bit weary; maybe I should have eaten some more carbs today. Probably it’s just the intensity of my last high school home game.

      But, hell, I’m the team’s leading rebounder, so no excuses. Kyle just missed his first warm up lay-up shot, but I took the rebound and crisply passed the ball to the next player who is in the lay-up line. I’ll now jog to the back of the line.

      I know I should be concentrating on the game. But the fact that my Mom is probably not in the stands always troubles me. Sportscasters always say a player or a team needs to be completely focused on the game. Yet, not a game in my youth days right through today could I concentrate completely on the game because I never knew if my

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