ArticlesCategory :: Adoption IssuesBy Columbus Dispatch - Ohio 8/8/2010 "...If the man didn't meet the 30-day deadline for signing the state's putative-father registry, offer support during the pregnancy or establish paternity before the adoption was filed, he might have little chance to halt the placement. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/08/08/adoption-rulings-may-boost-birth-fathers-rights.html?sid=101 By FoxNews.com 7/12/2010 "A Detroit-area woman who pleaded guilty to having sex with the biological son she gave up for adoption and later tracked down on the Internet has been sentenced nine years to 30 years in prison." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/12/mich-women-sentenced-woman-gets-years-sex-son-gave-adoption/ By Orange County Register 7/14/2010 "A 2-year-old girl stuck in the middle of a custody battle between her adoptive mother and her birth father will be staying in California with her adoptive mother for the time being, the California appellate court ruled ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ocregister.com/news/mills-257705-doss-custody.html By Los Angeles Wave Newspapers - California 7/7/2010 "...Doss is embroiled in a child-custody struggle with the girl's father, Benjamin Mills Jr., who came forward with a paternity claim when his daughter was about a month old, halting the adoption. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.wavenewspapers.com/news/regional/foster-mom-Stacey-Doss-Good-Morning-America-97997814.html By E-Online "...Sheryl Crow let her fans in on some exciting news today, announcing on her website that she has adopted her second child, a baby boy named Levi James." By ScienceDaily.com 4/21/2010 "Parents pursuing adoption within the United States have strong preferences regarding the types of babies they will apply for, tending to choose non-African-American girls, and favoring babies who are close to being born as opposed to those who have already been born or who are early in gestation. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100420142039.htm By Hamilton Spectator - Canada 5/3/2010 "...The donors are also vulnerable. They could find themselves being forced by a court to financially support the child they essentially gave up. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/761843 By News Channel 7 – North Carolina 2/16/2010 "Levi Robertson says lately he has been spending a lot of time in courthouses across the Upstate. He said a child he fathered more than a decade ago recently was adopted by another family but the child's mother was still cashing his child support checks." Read the entire article: http://www.mensenews.org/administrator/index.php
By WJBF-TV – South Carolina 1/3/10 "...The new law requires men who believe they may have fathered children to register with the state or they can lose the ability to have a say in whether a child is put up for adoption. The registry cannot be used to pursue child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www2.wjbf.com/jbf/ap_exchange/south_carolina_news/article/ScHopesNewFatherRegistryCouldSpeedAdoptionsSc/48410/ By Robert Franklin, Esq. -- Mens News Daily 9/24/2009 "...There's a good bit to chew on in the case of In the matter of Baby Boy M., A Minor. As its name suggests, this is an adoption case. Like the last adoption case out of Utah that I wrote about a few weeks ago, the facts in this case tell a lot about the depths to which some mothers will descend to keep a father from his child. Adoption agencies facilitate the mother's behavior. ..." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/09/24/texas-single-dad-stops-adoption-may-get-custody-of-his-son/
By KTLA 9/14/2009 "A 35-year old mother is accused of using the internet to track down the boy she gave up for adoption and then raping him." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mom-rape,0,3106598.story By CNN.com 7/20/2009 "...The Billingses, who were known for adopting special-needs children, were fatally shot during a home invasion robbery, police have said. Their bodies were found in their bedroom, said the court documents. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/20/florida.slain.couple/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By Kate Simonson with Meghan Daum CNN.com 6/19/2009 "My dad was an electrician, and he died in an accident on the job when I was three. After his death, my mother had to raise us alone, and she was acutely aware that she was truly on her own, with no backup plan. She was fiercely strong and yet constantly fearful. I have almost no memories of my father. Instead I remember Mike Fieseler. He was a former industrial-arts teacher whom my mother dated off and on for much of my childhood. Jason and I weren't his biggest fans. He was a man of strict rules, while my mom's approach could be more properly deemed overindulgent leniency. ....Then, on February 18, 1991, when I was 17, my mother suddenly died of a brain aneurysm. One minute she was laughing with friends, enjoying an evening out; the next, she was unconscious on the floor. She never woke up. Just 19 hours later, she was dead, leaving my 15-year-old brother and me orphans. ...Generally, when children are orphaned, a family member comes forward to take them in. This didn't happen in our case. Everyone had a good reason, I suppose. My mom's father was too old to assume responsibility for us; my mother's sister and her husband had three kids of their own and weren't able to take in any others; her other two siblings were both single and worked long hours. The guardian named in my mother's will was a babysitter that none of us had seen in 15 years. But I can tell you this: Abandonment, even for very good reasons, feels awful. It was heartbreaking and terrifying to have lost the person we loved most and then to be set adrift." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/06/19/rs.mom.died.boyfriend.adopts/index.html By Armstrong Williams -- Opinion -- Washington Times 6/17/2009 "The celebration of Father's Day allows our nation a moment to pause and reflect on the memories and experiences of childhood and fatherhood alike. Aside from the typical gift selection of a new tie, putter or power tools, no serious consideration is given to this holiday. This Father's Day, take a break from the barbecue grill, playing catch or listening to another one of dad's widely exaggerated stories (that you've already heard at least a thousand times), and ponder a more broad subject, the rights of a father. A father's rights have remained a largely hidden issue, tucked away beneath America's fiery and passionate opinions on abortion. In many ways, the parental rights of expectant fathers are blatantly ignored, and fathers are, in a court of law, unable to voice their opinion in regard to childbirth. A fundamental assumption leading to the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade was that because women are biologically tied to the birth process, they should therefore bear all responsibility in deciding the life or death of their children. The reason for this perspective is straightforward: Roe v. Wade rejected the idea that another person controlled a woman's body. ....We live in an age of eroding family values, in which fathers routinely abandon their children and disregard their familial responsibilities. Mr. Stachokus' desire to raise and care responsibly for his child should be commended and encouraged. Instead, the law brutally and arbitrarily denies that he has any right to his child whatsoever. Countless men are faced with the same nightmare of having no voice in the execution of their children. "Men's rights are trampled on all the time when it comes to reproductive rights," said Dianna Thompson, executive director of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children. It is time to fight back, to force our government to re-evaluate the logic of treating men as little more than fertilizers. ..." Read the entire article: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/17/a-critical-role-for-fathers/print/
By Yahoo News 6/12/2009 "U.S. pop star Madonna was allowed on Friday to adopt a second child from Malawai, though the father of the 4-year-old girl said he wants her back, a plea likely to stir fresh controversy for the singer. Malawi's Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling in April which said Madonna could not adopt Mercy James because she was not a resident of the southern African country. Rights groups have accused the government of giving Madonna special treatment and said the case would encourage foreigners to think they can adopt Malawian children at will. Mercy's father said Madonna, one of the music industry's most successful singers, should not be allowed to adopt Mercy. "No one wants to listen to me, I have protested this all along ... I want my child back but I don't know what to do now," James Kabewa told Reuters by telephone from his poor township. "Madonna cannot take her away." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090612/en_nm/us_malawi_madonna_5
By Wendy Koch -- USA TODAY 5/18/2009 ...."As parents struggle to raise children in a weak economy, a half-dozen large adoption agencies are reporting that more women with unplanned pregnancies are considering placing their babies for adoption rather than keeping them. Many of these women are in their 20s and already have at least one child, says Joan Jaeger of The Cradle, the Chicago-area agency that placed Joie. She says 30% more women are inquiring about placing a child for adoption than a year ago. "The economy has made them take a second look at adoption," says Scott Mars of American Adoptions, a private agency in Overland Park, Kan. In the past year, he's seen a 10% to 12% increase in women inquiring about placing a child for adoption and a 7% to 10% increase in actual placements, as strong demand for healthy infants continues to outstrip the supply. "We've seen a dramatic increase in girls calling us from the hospital," says Joseph Sica of Adoption By Shepherd Care, an agency in Hollywood, Fla. He says they expect to get help to raise their children, so they wait, but after they give birth and no help arrives, they call. He had 14 such adoptions in 2008, up from 11 in 2007 and four in 2006." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-05-18-mother_N.htm?csp=34
By Jovie Baclayon E-Online 5/2/2009 "...In an interview airing Monday on CBS' The Early Show, 15-year-old James Kambewa is once again voicing his opposition to Madonna's adoption bid for his 3-year-old daughter, Chifundo "Mercy" James. "I want to take care of her and I'm capable to take care of my baby," he says. "Mercy, she is a Malawian—so [I] need her to grow as a Malawian, as well with our culture." In the interview, Kambewa is wearing a necklace he made bearing his daughter’s name but says has never held or even met her in person. The little girl's birth mother died shortly after childbirth. Lucy Chekechiwa, Mercy’s maternal grandmother, says she, too, was initially opposed to the adoption but eventually gave in. “I did not want my granddaughter to be adopted,” she says, “but because they have been persistent enough, I have been forced to let my granddaughter go." On Monday, Team Madonna will make her appeal before Malawi's Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo. In April, a judge rejected the 50-year-old superstar's adoption request because she doesn't meet the minimum 18-month residency requirement." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b121905_bio-dad_madonna_dont_have_mercy.html
By Clive McFarlane -- Columnists Telegram.com 4/29/2009 "Joseph Becker is no pin-up dad, and he doesn’t claim to be one. In 1988, after someone took a baseball bat to his head, he came out of a 3-1/2 month coma to learn that he was the father of a baby girl. Read the entire article: http://www.telegram.com/article/20090429/COLUMN44/904290384/1008/NEWS02 By Marion Star – Ohio 4/25/2009 "It probably comes as no surprise that in child support cases that involve delinquent payments there can be quite a bit of animosity and some less-than-reasonable behavior on the part of the parents. But a case that we recently reviewed here - at the Supreme Court of Ohio - was something of an exception to that general trend. The case involved a woman named Christina Byrd Reeder and a man named Brian K. Knuckles who are the biological parents of a child whose name we don't need to mention. In an earlier court ruling Knuckles was ordered to pay child support; he ultimately ended up owing a child-support arrearage of $7,420.16. But here's where the case takes a bit of a twist. Reeder and Knuckles reached an agreement: Christina would renounce half the arrearage, and Knuckles would consent to the adoption of their child by Brad Reeder, Christina Reeder's husband. After the adoption, the child-support order was terminated, and Knuckles filed a motion to abate half the arrearage, in accordance with the agreement that he had reached with Christina and Brad. But the juvenile court denied the motion. Why did it reach that conclusion? The juvenile court relied on an Ohio law which states: "A court or child support enforcement agency may not retroactively modify an obligor's duty to pay a delinquent support payment." The "obligor" - the person obligated to pay - was, in this instance, Knuckles." Read the entire article: http://www.marionstar.com/article/20090425/OPINION/904260301/-1/newsfront2 By CNN.com 4/24/2009 "An adoptive mother has been charged with murdering her 9-year-old quadriplegic daughter, prosecutors in Michigan said Friday. Lorrie Thomas was charged with second-degree murder and child abuse in the death of Shylea Myza Thomas, said John Potbury, an assistant prosecutor with the Genesee County Prosecutor's Office in Flint, Michigan. Thomas is also charged with tampering with evidence. Thomas, who is the girl's biological aunt, made no immediate public statement. Police found the girl's body this week, stuffed inside a garbage bag in a public storage facility in Vienna Township, near Flint, said Genesee County prosecutor David Leyton." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/24/michigan.child.dead/index.html?eref=rss_crime By FoxNews.com 4/22/2009 "A California man has signed papers to symbolically adopt and give his last name to his wife's two aborted children. Stan Musil said he filed the posthumous "adoption" on Monday as a way to support his wife, Lisa, and help her heal from the pain of having those abortions, Lisa Musil told FOXNews.com. "He told me 'I love you and you are a part of me. Your babies are a part of you, and so that makes them a part of me also,'" she said." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517503,00.html View All Articles | Discussion  RSS Feed
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