A father's rights

[jendear]

I currently live in North Central Texas and have a friend who is currently embroiled in a child custody case. The father has been taking care of the said child since birth. The child is 2 years old. His relationship with the mother has been on again and off again. Currently and permanently their relationship is off. They were never married. He has been raising the child by hisself without help from said mother. If the mother comes by to see the child once a month it is rare. Let me give a run down of some of the problems. While dad was at work, mother left child alone in apartment to go run around with other male friends. CPS is called, dad is called to come get child. Both are ordered to attend parenting classes. Dad does, mother does not. CPS has been working with the dad to obtain legal custody of child. Dad had also hired an attorney. A couple of months ago, even though she was not raising said child, the mom decided to fight for child support--not custody. She even sent her brothers to dad's home to threaten and "beat him up." Police records will indicate this. Now we are at court. The judge decides to take child from father and give to maternal grandparents. States CPS needs time to investigate father also. CPS worker that was on case was not present but a representative was sent instead. Father is now allowed to see child one day a week only. Mother has one day a week visitation also. But as I said, child is residing in mother's parents home. Dad's parents and family were told they could have unlimited visitation. Custodial grandparents have refused visitation other than the one day a week. My question is this, what are his rights? Is it in the best interest of the child to take her from the only home she has known and give her to the family that has been threatening the dad? The lawyers were totally appalled at the decision. It was made obvious in court that the child's mother did not truly want her but only wanted the child support. Mother admitted in court to doing drugs and living with a man on parole from the state pen for doing drugs. Again what are his rights? No return date was set for him to go back to court to see if he could regain his child back. Both dad and child are sufferring.

 

[hound dog]

Once again a perfect example of Fathers having no rights! until we fathers stand up and fight for more rights to our children nothing will change. What is funny is the judges are majority men and they are screwing their on kind. The reason being is b/c they never had to deal with any situations that everyday people deal with and they do not care. Think about it when a man and woman get a divorce and they have both been there since day one and they both see their children everyday when they go to court the man automatically get the standard visitation which is four days a month and a huge c/s payment. What did the father do wrong to deserve that and why do the children have to accept it. The system is Bias so unless we do something about it stop whinning b/c it will never change.