A girl is taken from loving father and given to adoptive parents.

abeezmal · 2013-07-19T02:59:42+00:00

Shit title:

The order on the future of Veronica, 3, was greeted joyfully by her adoptive parents in South Carolina, who raised her from birth but were ordered 18 months ago by the same court to turn her over to her birth father because he is American Indian.

Brown, who was not married to the birth mother, had argued that the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, intended to keep Native American children from being separated from their families, entitled him to have Veronica, who is 3/256th Cherokee.

He took custody at the end of 2011 when the girl was just over 2 years old, and South Carolina's highest court later upheld his custody.

Fuck that shit, the girl was raised by this family, they are her parents. This story doesn't belong here.

5_by_5 · 2013-07-19T03:37:48+00:00

this has more to do with tribal sovereignty than men's rights...

toptop56 · 2013-07-19T10:12:15+00:00

This case is actually a horrible example to be touting for men's rights, imho.

Basically, the father agreed with the mother to a informal 'paper abortion' - he didn't pay any child support and agreed to wave all parental rights. Then when the adoption happened, he tried to reverse his stance, essentially undercutting the entire idea of a "paper adoption."

Then he's operating under the tribal sovereignty laws that essentially say that, because of historical reasons, the rights of the tribe to keep a coherent membership actually supersede the rights of the mother or the father in respect to adoption.

Collective82 · 2013-07-19T05:21:59+00:00

My wife had actually been reading about this case before so I will tell what I was told.

The "father" knew the mother was pregnant and said he wanted nothin to do with the kid. Se chose not to abort and so the mother found a couple while pregnant willing to adopt the child and so went the process. Then at a point the "father" changed his mind and mind to get the child under an obscure law.

I put father in quotes because this man gave up his rights to the child, was not sought after for money, and chose to destroy what was becoming a happily family.

This is what my wife explained to me.

Edit; fixed a word.

Leinadro · 2013-07-19T16:07:13+00:00

My question is did he know about the mother's intent to put the child up for adoption as soon as he signed away rights? I'm wondering if he thought was "I want her to be with at least biological parent".

Ted8367 · 2013-07-19T10:57:44+00:00

http://news.yahoo.com/u-court-awards-custody-american-indian-girl-adoptive-010704581.html

Brown turned over his custody rights through a text message and a signed agreement. Brown did so because he was just about to be deployed to Iraq, but now claims he was confused and thought he was giving custody to Veronica’s biological mother.

"That's my daughter,” Brown told CBS. “I'm not wanting to abandon her. I want to be right there along the whole time, watch her grow up, make her decisions and everything. Never once did I want to just give her away."

Title	A girl is taken from loving father and given to adoptive parents.
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Upvotes	20
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Date	July 18, 2013 11:55 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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