I think you and ODH are both right Allan.  If we are content to watch the courts ram 'rights' into every tiny corner of our lives, we'll soon discover a lot of wrongs.
Maybe we need to step back the unfettered assertion of rights in favour of a more explicit array of rights and responsibilities that allow people to anticipate the reasonable consequences of their actions all by themselves?
In this case, the parent is responsible to the child, and it is the child who will judge how that responsibility has been handled - no need for a court to wander into messing with that relationship.