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- From: garrod@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (David Garrod)
- Subject: Re: adoption rules
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:53:36 GMT
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- In article <30446@optima.cs.arizona.edu>, bweiss@cs.arizona.edu (Beth Weiss) writes:
- >
- > I can support a requirement for paternal notification. I'm not sure
- > what to do in those cases where the mother doesn't know (or claims
- > she doesn't know) who the father is, though.
- >
- > Scenario: Woman has baby she knows she can't support, and wishes to
- > give up for adoption. She claims she doesn't know who the father
- > is.
- >
- > Now what?
- >
- > Options:
- > 1) refuse to allow Mom to give up Baby, even though she doesn't want
- > the baby, and that would make her (I would think) more likely to
- > abuse the child
- >
- > 2) Force her to list all possible fathers and contact them all to
- > see what they want to do. If a possible father wants custody if the
- > child is his, then do DNA tests to see if he's really the father.
- > If all possibles don't care if the child is put for adoption, then
- > there's no problem.
- >
- > 3) Figure that if she doesn't know, whoever she names would likely
- > be uninterested/disbelieving that they were the father.
- >
- > #1 seems as if it would leave to child abuse. #2 sounds fairest to
- > me. #3 doesn't give men enough credit for decency.
- >
-
- #2 seems appropriate to me.
- (Of course exceptions, for rape, etc....where the mother really might
- not know.)
-
- David Garrod
-
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