The Utah Supreme Court today put a temporary hold on a trial judge's orders to return a little girl to her soldier father after she was given up for adoption without his consent two years ago.
This is so terrible and yet from what I've read not actually that unique. Adoption agencies seem to commonly have no problem arranging adoptions for babies despite a father who does not consent and wants to raise the child, because they are making money off the adoption. And what is the most ridiculous is the adoption agencies and adoptive families can drag it out so long, like in this case- through the adoption agency refusing to give him information and by tying the case up in courts for a long time- and during that whole time the child stays with the adoptive family and then they argue that it's not fair to the child to remove them after so much time because that is the only family the child knows- and people and courts buy that! Even when the only reason that is the only family the child knows is because of the agency and family forcibly dragging it out so long.
Men have no right to tell a woman what to do with her body, but they do (and should) have equal rights to a (born) child of theirs. Unless there was cause to terminate his rights against his wishes, then he absolutely has/should have the right to seek custody and not have an adoption go through against his will.
And what is the most ridiculous is the adoption agencies and adoptive families can drag it out so long, like in this case- through the adoption agency refusing to give him information and by tying the case up in courts for a long time- and during that whole time the child stays with the adoptive family and then they argue that it's not fair to the child to remove them after so much time because that is the only family the child knows- and people and courts buy that! Even when the only reason that is the only family the child knows is because of the agency and family forcibly dragging it out so long.
Men have no right to tell a woman what to do with her body, but they do (and should) have equal rights to a (born) child of theirs. Unless there was cause to terminate his rights against his wishes, then he absolutely has/should have the right to seek custody and not have an adoption go through against his will.
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