Originally posted by: Salutethearmy
Many divorcees are on child support. Finances somehow take centre stage.
Imagine as an adult Abhir has to fight for his inheritance.
Suppose he is in dire need of money and does not know how rich hi biological father is.
That is another issue although a valid point, but what I am saying is the narrative that is being painted is that if one of the parents is rich, somehow that makes them more suitable to have the child's custody, and not just that, itv goes many steps further than this by trying to frame a parent who is not mega-loaded as an incompetent parent and undeserving of raising a child (something itv does far too much). ITV is obsessed with ridiculing the middle-class in every show.
@Bold- that's only really relevant to this show, in real life how many children have mega-rich parents who can solve all their financial issues? Is that the reason why it's important for abhir to have abhi in his life? To ensure he has a rich parent he can run to when needed in his adult life? Majority of children do not have that luxury anyways in real life, so why does ITV keep trying to push the narrative that a lesser-off parent who is capable of working and earning money to meet their child's basic needs deserve to have their child taken from them and a wealthy parent should get the child's custody?
In a case where a child has already been raised by one parent for years and the child is young, how is it in the child's interest to take that child away from the parent they were raised by and attached to for any reason other than the parent being physically or mentally incapable of looking after the child or a danger to the child? If a parent is capable of working to earn enough money to meet a child's basic needs, that is usually and logically what a real court of law looks at, not which parent can give the child a privileged lifestyle full of luxuries.
I have zero expectations of a logical custody track from itv at all that doesn't involve ridiculing middle-classes and actually focusing on valid reasons related to the child's wellbeing.