Adoption battle quashed by Utah Supreme Court

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2011-10-16 20:30

Article here. Excerpt:

'OREM — For three years, two families have wanted the same baby.

The birth father and his family have been fighting the legal system and an Orem adoption agency, declaring that the father's rights as a parent have been violated.

The birth mother, who lives in California, said she's been slandered and maligned for choosing what she felt was the best for her baby.

In the meantime, the baby's adoptive parents have been raising the little girl, praying that soon they'll be able to permanently call her theirs.

After a recent Utah Supreme Court decision affirming a 3rd District Court ruling, the longed-for adoption finalization is closer than ever before.

The Supreme Court ruled this week that the baby's birth father, Cody O'Dea, waived all of his parental rights in 2006 by not complying with Utah law to establish paternity.

In a 3-2 decision, the high court also wrote that O'Dea's four appeal issues hadn't been raised in the district court, and thus were not preserved in the federal arena.'

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This just goes to show how little say a man really has in how his children are raised in the western world. It's absolutely pathetic and unacceptable! Lord knows that if it was the birth mother, and not the father, fighting for parental rights, the court would have ruled in her favour. Well, J is for a Joke of a "justice" sytem.

So, if you're a man, and you don't register for paternity in every single state, you're denied parental rights? This sounds like the reverse of the misogynistic laws governing custody in Iran. If you're a woman and you get divorced, custody immediately goes to the father. We live in the society that condones the same thing, but with the genders reversed.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
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Submitted by xtrnl on Mon, 2011-10-17 04:53

Here it's enshrined in all federal Labor's verbiage as "women and their children". So in Aus, at least, it seems that women(notably NOT mothers) officially do own children.

Personally I find it quite objectifying of children.

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Submitted by gwallan on Mon, 2011-10-17 10:23