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apolla ([personal profile] apolla) wrote2005-01-19 05:25 pm
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I AM UTTERLY DISGUSTED

I cannot begin to tell you how much this utterly, utterly sickens and disgusts me.

WHEN are people going to realise that 'real' does NOT always mean 'biological'? WHEN are they going to realise that blood is often the LEAST important part of what makes you who you are?

Fools, madmen and total bastards.

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[identity profile] ladyaeryn.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I read this on CNN a week or two ago. It made me go "BWAH?!" then, and it still does now.

Ugh. Of all the selfish things to put a four-year-old through.

[identity profile] likebunnies.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
What made me totally furious is the biological mother made some comment about how the boy was 'going home now.' What the hell? How can home be some place he's never been with people he doesn't know? Home is with his parents, not her.

[identity profile] ashleigh713.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Hard to believe someone who'd do this could be qualified as a real anything, other than monster.

[identity profile] annearchy.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you already know how I feel about this kind of utter and total SHITE. The judge, IMO, is out and out wrong - though Florida could have some stupid law that makes this kind of crap legal. I know that in Texas, if a good-faith effort has been made to find the birthfather and he does not respond to repeated requests to find him and terminate his paternal rights, the adoption agency (or adoptive parents in a private adoption) can petition the county court to terminate the birthfather's rights. It happens quite often. I'm surprised that wasn't done in this case. Grrr.

[identity profile] junesrose.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Ok, I'm going to play devils' advocate here, because as we should all remember, the media is NOT unbiased. And, I'm not pretending to know everything about the case, because I don't.

I saw this the other day on the Today show, and the biological father was interviewed. The way I interpreted this is as follows:

(and, for all I know, he could be lying) he didn't know his girlfriend/wife/whatever was pregnant until she was eight months along. He received court documents requiring him to obtain a DNA test to prove parantage for the baby's adoption. THIS is when he found out about the baby. He took the DNA tests, found out he was biological father, and sometime after this, filed for custody of the child. Now, he didn't go into how this baby was adopted if he didn't give permission, but somehow it was. THe court system, in it's way it has of dragging it's feet, has now given custody to the biological father and mother, two to three years after the father started court proceedings. Also, according to this man, he has been seeing the boy every month for the past two years, spending time with him, so the child does know him.

Now, I'm not saying that what the judge did is justified, but if this indeed is the truth, then it truly is the court systems fault. If it has taken them three years to determine this, then that is absolutley digusting. It's practically taken longer for this decision to be made than the child has been alive.

I'm sure that this case is a helluva lot more complicated than anyof us have any idea.
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