New York Post – by Julia Marsh and Reuven Fenton
A Manhattan dad is not lovin’ McDonald’s right now.
Attorney David Schorr slapped a court-appointed shrink with a defamation lawsuit for telling the judge deciding a custody battle with his estranged wife that he was an unfit parent — for refusing to take his son to the fast food joint for dinner.
“You’d think it was sexual molestation,” Schorr, 43, told The Post Thursday. “I am just floored by it.”
Schorr says in his Manhattan Supreme Court suit that E. 97th Street psychiatrist Marilyn Schiller filed a report saying he was “wholly incapable of taking care of his son” and should be denied his weekend visitation over the greasy burger ban.
Schorr, a corporate attorney turned consultant with degrees from NYU and Oxford University, had planned to take his 4-year-old son to their usual restaurant, the Corner Café on Third Avenue, for his weekly Tuesday night visitation last week.
But the boy threw a temper tantrum and demanded McDonald’s. So he gave his son an ultimatum: dinner anywhere other than McDonald’s — or no dinner.
“The child, stubborn as a mule, chose the ‘no dinner’ option,” the disgruntled dad says in the suit.
“It was just a standoff. I’m kicking myself mightily,” Schorr said.
“I wish I had taken him to McDonalds, but you get nervous about rewarding bad behavior. I was concerned. I think it was a 1950s equivalent of sending your child to bed without dinner. That’s maybe the worst thing you can say about it,” he said.
Adding insult to injury, he said: “My wife immediately took him to McDonalds.”
Upon reflection, Schorr said he should have remembered that mother knows best.
“The first thing I did was I questioned myself,” he recalled.
“Had I done something wrong? I did what any 43-year-old Jewish man would do — I told my mother. I said, ‘My God, did I do something wrong here?’
“Even my mother, the strictest mother in the world, said, ‘Why didn’t you just take him to McDonalds? What were you thinking? You know that this is a divorce situation.’”
Before dropping his son off at his wife’s E. 84th Street building, Schorr says he tried to make light of the situation by horsing around with him and trying one last time to change his mind about dinner.
But the son apparently tattled on his dad and his wife flipped out and called the shrink, according to the suit.
Schorr claims that Dr. Schiller only interviewed the child and his mother and never asked for his side of the story before telling the court she was gravely concerned about Schorr’s parenting.
Bari Yunis Schorr sued her husband for a divorce in 2011, just four years after they married in a lavish ceremony at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan.
She recently filed motions asking the judge to punish her husband for flouting court orders and for a judgment on nonpayment of child support.
Her attorney, Louis I. Newman, declined to comment on the McDonald’s matter.
“It’s a litigation between Mr. Schorr and Mrs. Schiller,” Newman said.
In the past two and a half years that he has had partial custody of his son their time together “has run smoothly without incident” save a scraped knee, Schorr insists in the suit.
He wants the shrink to return the $2,750 he paid for the evaluation.
Dr. Schiller told the Post she could not comment on the details of the incident. She only sad, “I am conducting a forensic evaluation on this matter. I will be issuing a confidential report to the court and the matter will be tried by the court.”
The custody trial resumes in December when the judge will ultimately decide if Schorr is fit to parent his son.
Additional reporting by Lorena Mongelli
http://nypost.com/2013/11/07/psychologist-called-dad-unfit-parent-for-refusing-son-mcdonalds-suit/
The mother should be the one deemed unfit. Feeding your children that processed swill should be against the law. That psych should have her license taken away, what an idiot.
The license means nothing. The entire psychiatric ‘profession’ is a total fraud.
Does anyone still not understand that we are all viewed as property of the state and not free citizens?!? If so, then there is little hope left for such people.
Free nationals.
“Even my mother, the strictest mother in the world, said, ‘Why didn’t you just take him to McDonalds? What were you thinking? You know that this is a divorce situation.’”
DIVORCE? SERIOUSLY???
Pitiful.
Insanity abounds.
This is no ones business but the parents.
Fast food is poison and the dad had the right to refuse to feed his son poison. The kid through a fit, so the dad could not back down on his decision. The kid must learn his dad means what he says. The dad needs to have confidence he did the right thing!
The mom needs to grow up and stop “taddle telling” like a child. Parents discuss differences between themselves in private away from the child, as to not conflict a decision. The mom, meanwhile should backup her husbands decisions.
It’s easy to see why they are getting divorced. They are immature kids with a child.
What they do now is going to affect the child. They need to act like adults that truly care for their child instead of just themselves.
If Dad is wise, he’ll write off son and save himself unending grief. Next thing will be sexual molestation accusations. We Dad’s jump through all the hoops and still wind up the outcast. My kids haven’t spoken to me in over 7 years. Get on with your life, Dad. “And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.” Matthew 10:36 KJV
Dad walks a mine field and an evil, alienating mother charges around like a mad cow infected heifer in a kindergarten class. Yep, sounds like feminism has done its job, once more. 95% of drug addicts and prostitutes are from single mother homes 80% of rapist, child molesters, and sex offenders were raised by single mothers. Women kick good men out without care for the children.
This country makes me sick…