Help with another paper

[collegegirl]

My new paper is about mothers being able to give their newborn babies away without legal action being taken against them. I know that in certain states a new mother has a certain amount of time after a baby is born to turn that child over to medical personnel. Yet, a father is not allowed to do the same.

I need more information about the subject. Does anyone know where I can find out about these laws?

 

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

My new paper is about mothers being able to give their newborn babies away without legal action being taken against them. I know that in certain states a new mother has a certain amount of time after a baby is born to turn that child over to medical personnel. Yet, a father is not allowed to do the same.

I need more information about the subject. Does anyone know where I can find out about these laws?

http://www.nysccc.org/Voice/sp00/abandon.htm

 

[karma1]

How did your other paper do?

I remember it was something about child support, no?
How did you do on that?
I just watched this 48 Hours a week or so ago kind of on the same line (I think it was 48 Hours?)
Man and woman meet, live together and she gets pregnant-she wants to abort but ends up leaving him and no contact.
She goes to CA (I think they were in TX originally) and has the baby and gives it up for adoption.
THe adoptive parents know about the real dad 10 days after childs birth but evidently, his signature was not required for the adoption.
Bio dad fights in court for over 2 yrs to get custody-and may have well gotten it, but in the end, he signs over child to adoptive parents-because the child has bonded with them (during the 2 plus yrs of litigation, he had visitation, but child knew adoptive parents as mom and dad).
I just thought it was horrible that the bio mom was responsible for the whole mess and she was held accountable for nothing. I guess the law said otherwise.
good luck on your paper!

 

[Grace_Adler]

Hey, I just wanted to chime in on that show. I saw it too. It was 48 hours or dateline or something like that. It was really sad, I cried. The mother claimed she was trying to protect the child from the biodad finding them mainly the baby because she thought he was crazy. Course, I don't know if that was just her blowing things up or if it was true but it was really sad all the way around.

 

[karma1]

I know-at the end when.....

the bio dad signed those papers-after talking to the adopt dad outside for an hour-did not have enough Kleenex!
They would have never allowed visitation if the bio dad was as violent as she claimed he was-and they interviewed the daughter he had living with him-no abuse what-so-ever!
It's like the bio mom did not want the child, but did not want bio dad to have him either, for whatever reason-but the bio dad is the one who suffered so much. I think if I was one of the adoptive parents, I would have made sure this adoption was okay by the bio dad, too-and when I found out it wasn't, well, I just couldn't take a child under those circumtances-
But, how many of us have seen this kind of thing go on with a bio mom-the control, the legal issues not in favor of bio dad?
too sad.