"As it turns out, Evan and Zachary have been making obscene phone calls to random strangers and even businesses on burner phones that Grant has been providing! When I confronted him about it, he said it was "harmless fun" and excused it by saying that he used to make crank calls when he was their age and that it "keeps them occupied.""
"If this is silly, gross humor, it's not worth getting the courts involved; its a simple disagreement over parenting styles and the appropriate response is to model what you expect of your children when they are in your care. If this is truly raunchy adult humor that exposes your kids to ideas that are too mature for them, then you need to raise the issue."
A parent discovered that her ex-husband provided burner phones so their teenage sons could make obscene prank calls to strangers and businesses. The ex defended the behavior as harmless fun, citing his own youth and insisting on "my house, my rule." The parent asked him to stop and considered legal action to amend custody. Assess the content: if the calls are juvenile gross humor, court involvement is not warranted and modeling expected behavior is the appropriate response. If the calls expose children to sexual or mature ideas that could cause harm, raise the issue legally. Court challenge is justified only when real harm is present.
Read at Slate Magazine
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