Morton's Musings: Parenting decisions and judges

Alan Shanoff did a column in the Sun pointing out the absurdity of estranged or divorced spouses asking a third party -- judges -- to make their parenting decisions.

I never really thought of it that way but it's a good point. Judges are highly trained in technical legal issues and are, more generally, bright people who care about justice.

But judges have no special insight into raising kids.