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Marta Laureano is most notable for her involvement in a controversially ruled child custody battle. She is of Mexican descent, and was born on the 16th of August 1995 in Amarillo, Texas. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. After the court case over "child abuse", the circuit judge, Samuel Kiser, ruled that Laureano was required by law to speak English with her daughter. Child abuse is the physical, psychological or sexual maltreatment of children English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States

Marta Laureano wanted to speak her native language, Spanish with her child, so that she would grow up bilingual. A first language (also mother tongue, native language, arterial language, or L1) is the language a human being learns from birth The divorced English-speaking father took legal action against Laureano and won the case. The father felt that if the mother spoke with the child in only Spanish, that he wouldn't be able to communicate with her. As the reasoning for the judgment, it was stated that the child had to be protected from a life as a house maid, as was her mother's occupation.

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"Child Abuse?" (August 23). Linguicism is a form of Prejudice, an "-ism" along the lines of Racism, Ageism or Sexism. Child abuse is the physical, psychological or sexual maltreatment of children The Daily Cougar.  


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