Quote From: cyncritterThese tugs-of-war only hurt people, and can also damage the child at the center.
If he wants to raise a child, why doesn't he find a woman, settle down, get married, and have one together? This kind of custody battle can drag on for a long, long time, keeping everyone in limbo, including the baby. The baby needs to be the FIRST in consideration. If the family with whom the baby is placed is a good family, then that should be enough to make everyone happy.
Emotions affect babies. When everything is in chaos around the child's custody, if affects all the signals that child is getting from her would-be parents. This is not an It's-mine-and-I-have-a-right-to-have-you situation. This should be about what's the very best for the child.
Well maybe you have one of your own to give him, (since you think it is that easy to forget one and get a new one!) go start another family?? What a stupid comment. Yes these tug-of wars hurt people and perhaps the mother and her controlling family should have thought of that before they gave this child to a family friend that they have access to. Sounds to me the mother didn't want the responsibility financially for this child nor did her parents but they wanted to keep the child within their reach to watch her grow, how selfish is that! I really do not feel sorry for the parents that wanted to adopt this child either, they knew that this was not being handle thru the proper channels, nobody gets to adopt a friends baby just like that. I believe thru a real agency the father would have been included before a child is given to another party. This was all done behind the fathers back, and it was handled by the maternal grandfather, he took matters in his own hands when he talked with the father and the father said no I will raise her myself, I do not want her put up for adoption. This girl and her family just didn't want the father having the baby, that is why the girls dad threatened aborting the baby if he didn't agree. I hope this dad saves this taping and if things go against him and he does not get custody of her she will one day seek him out (or he will wait for her 18th B-D) and he can show this tape to her. It will show her that he fought for her, that he wanted her, and that her bio-mother and her parents that she grew up seeing were the ones who kept him away, and that they are the ones who threatened to have her aborted.
This all lies in the mothers lap, and her controlling parents.