Comments on: Unknown Father: Your baby needs you http://www.joannejacobs.com/2007/03/unknown-father-your-baby-needs-you/ Thinking and Linking by Joanne Jacobs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: NDC http://www.joannejacobs.com/2007/03/unknown-father-your-baby-needs-you/#comment-32016 NDC Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:49:20 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2007/03/09/unknown-father-your-baby-needs-you/#comment-32016 Isn't it simply a legal requirement before parental rights are terminated? So even though these loser can't or won't be found, the rights can be severed after a period of advertising for the "father," even without their signing off? Sometimes though these reminders point out just how tragically disadvantaged some babies start out. Contrast these "parents" with those in the post about parents rejected from preschool. Isn’t it simply a legal requirement before parental rights are terminated? So even though these loser can’t or won’t be found, the rights can be severed after a period of advertising for the “father,” even without their signing off?

Sometimes though these reminders point out just how tragically disadvantaged some babies start out. Contrast these “parents” with those in the post about parents rejected from preschool.

]]> By: ricki http://www.joannejacobs.com/2007/03/unknown-father-your-baby-needs-you/#comment-32015 ricki Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:33:30 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2007/03/09/unknown-father-your-baby-needs-you/#comment-32015 I suppose also to sign over their parental rights so the children they provided the sperm for (I am not going to call a man who abandons a mother and baby a "father") so there aren't any bizarre, bad, and sad surprises for the potential adoptive families. Although I have to admit I kind of like jack's idea... I suspect a big reason for the notes, though, is to try to reintroduce a little bit of the concept of "shame" for doing things you ought not to, which I think is a concept whose time has come again. I suppose also to sign over their parental rights so the children they provided the sperm for (I am not going to call a man who abandons a mother and baby a “father”) so there aren’t any bizarre, bad, and sad surprises for the potential adoptive families.

Although I have to admit I kind of like jack’s idea…

I suspect a big reason for the notes, though, is to try to reintroduce a little bit of the concept of “shame” for doing things you ought not to, which I think is a concept whose time has come again.

]]> By: gahrie http://www.joannejacobs.com/2007/03/unknown-father-your-baby-needs-you/#comment-32014 gahrie Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:06:53 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2007/03/09/unknown-father-your-baby-needs-you/#comment-32014 To sue them for child support. To sue them for child support.

]]> By: jack http://www.joannejacobs.com/2007/03/unknown-father-your-baby-needs-you/#comment-32013 jack Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:55:26 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2007/03/09/unknown-father-your-baby-needs-you/#comment-32013 And we need these unknown fathers why? To sterilise them, perhaps? And we need these unknown fathers why? To sterilise them, perhaps?

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