The Family Court is allowing mothers to leave the country with their children, provided they agree to sign up for the internet-based video telephone service Skype.A compulsory subscription to Skype, which allows parents to see their children on the computer screen while talking to them, has been a feature of 10 Family Court cases this year.One judge has said the technology was helping to mitigate the “tyranny of distance” arising from divorce and forging “meaningful relationships” between children and their parents, wherever in the world they live.To read this report from The Australian in full, see:
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25324942-643,00.html
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