Judge Urges Madonna And Guy Ritchie To Stop Wasting Rocco's Childhood With Custody Battle

A judge has urged Madonna and Guy Ritchie to come to an “amicable solution” to their bitter custody battle before they waste the final years of Rocco’s childhood at loggerheads with one another.

Mr. Justice MacDonald is not happy that the fifteen-year-old’s “fast receding days” of his youth are being taken up by his parents’ bickering and has “pleaded” with both stars to make amends.

He said: “I renew, one final time, my plea for both parents to seek and to find an amicable resolution to the dispute between them.

"As I observed during the course of the hearing, summer does not last forever. The boy very quickly becomes the man. It would be a very great tragedy for Rocco if any more of the previous and fast receding days of his childhood were to be taken up by this dispute.

"Far better for each of his parents to spend that time enjoying, in turn, the company of the mature, articulate and reflective young man who is their son and who is a very great credit to them both.”

Rocco has been living with his dad in London after falling out with his mum just before Christmas last year, with the teen fed-up of moving from place to place as part of her Rebel Heart Tour.

Madge then lodged a claim under child abduction laws against Guy keeping his son, but then applied to withdraw the legal action leading to Guy’s legal team opposing the move - stating that they want the issue resolved in the UK instead of the US.

The judge added: “For all the media coverage, comment and analysis, this is a case born out of circumstances that arise for countless separated parents the world over. The court should always be the option of last resort when parents cannot agree matters in respect of their children.

"Whilst the law provides a mechanism for the resolution of disputes between parents in respect of their children it is but a blunt instrument when compared to the nuanced virtues of calm discussion and considered compromise between those involved, accepting that this latter path can be a hard one on which to embark, and to sustain, in the context of relationship breakdown.”

Here’s hoping the family resolve everything soon.