http://birthparents.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/father-s-rights-not-really-protected A blog for and about parents who have placed a child for adoption. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:02:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://birthparents.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/father-s-rights-not-really-protected/comment-page-1#comment-707 cleanupgirl Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:24:13 +0000 http://birth-first.www.adoptionblogs.com/2007/10/04/father-s-rights-not-really-protected#comment-707 You are right. The laws are screwed up. Why take a man's child against his will and give the child to someone else to adopt when the man is perfectly capable. The birth mother is mad with my son, mad with me, and wanted to hurt us because my son wanted to take care of the child, but did not want to be in a relationship with her. Not to mention that she was married to someone else at the time. North Carolina statute 48-3-601 subsection 2.4 is the reason the court in NC wants to terminate my son's rights. The statute says he did not support her during her pregnancy-she had medicaid and foodstamps, lived in the projects-no rent, and living with her husband and her mother and another daughter. My son did not know he was the father until June of this year (2008) so the court says he should have set up a bank account for the baby, given her some money. The lawyer did not know about his so of course this just made things worse. What can we do about some of these laws and statutes. They are so unfair. My grandson is being raised by someone else, and he should be with us. What in the world can we do? You are right. The laws are screwed up. Why take a man’s child against his will and give the child to someone else to adopt when the man is perfectly capable. The birth mother is mad with my son, mad with me, and wanted to hurt us because my son wanted to take care of the child, but did not want to be in a relationship with her. Not to mention that she was married to someone else at the time. North Carolina statute 48-3-601 subsection 2.4 is the reason the court in NC wants to terminate my son’s rights. The statute says he did not support her during her pregnancy-she had medicaid and foodstamps, lived in the projects-no rent, and living with her husband and her mother and another daughter. My son did not know he was the father until June of this year (2008) so the court says he should have set up a bank account for the baby, given her some money. The lawyer did not know about his so of course this just made things worse. What can we do about some of these laws and statutes. They are so unfair. My grandson is being raised by someone else, and he should be with us. What in the world can we do?

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