@Gypsy: It's none of your business what she does and does not have in her refrigerator. In fact, it's an invasion of privacy on your part. You are not the caregiver while the kids are with their mom.

@robx: maybe I missed the details on this but didn't she ask him to watch the kids at her place? Wouldn't the contents of the fridge with regards to the kids well being mean anything

@robx is correct. Cliff's Notes version would go like this:

Mrs. SP: I can't go to Fab MC#2 for IC because I don't have a sitter that night.

SP: I can pick them up from school and watch them at your house for a couple hours -- more important that you go to IC, from my POV -- if that suits you.

Mrs. SP: Okay, thanks. I should be back by 8.


So. Kids are in Mom's custody. At Mom's house. And Mom has a refrigerator full of...nothing.

If I was a 15-year-old babysitter, the nothingness of the fridge would be my business. Was I just supposed to let them be hungry until she got home with take-out? As the father, the primary caregiver?

So if a separated parent is online, surfing porn, with custody -- that's not the other parent's business? That's an invasion of privacy?

Or let's not be extreme -- the other parent just sits on Chat or the Crackberry the entire time s/he has custody. That's not a concern?

Come on, @Gypsy, don't try to kid a kidder.