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Ill. Appeals Court Dismisses "Bad Mothering" Case
BARRINGTON HILLS, Ill. (AP) -- An Illinois appeals court has dismissed a 2009 lawsuit that two suburban Chicago siblings filed against their mother, seeking $50,000 and claiming she caused them ``emotional distress.''

Court papers show 23-year-old Steven Miner and his 20-year-old sister Kathryn Miner claimed their mother didn't send her son care packages at college, wouldn't buy her daughter a homecoming dress and didn't send gifts in birthday cards. The Illinois appeals court dismissed the case, ruling the mother's behavior wasn't ``extreme or outrageous.''

The siblings' father was one of their attorneys. Their parents divorced in 1995.

Cook County judge Kathy Flanagan previously said the lawsuit amounts to the siblings ``suing their mother for bad mothering.'' The sibling's attorney wrote they view the lawsuit as ``accountability,'' not an ``attack on mothering.''

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08 29 11 by Newsroom
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