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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian

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To: Rambi who wrote (3431)	4/28/2000 8:59:00 PM
From: epicure	of 9127

That's a superb point. Children certainly have individual human rights, but as parents we certainly have rights over our children. I think most parents expect that they have the "right" to raise their children where they think best. Elian's mother apparently thought the "rights" over her child extended to removing him from his home country and his father and taking him on a rather dangerous trip. So obviously even Elian's mother thinks parents have rather extraordinary "rights" over their children. Now that she is dead Juan has those rights. If Elian's mother had been a little less negligent perhaps she could be here to argue for what SHE wanted for Elian- but since she isn't here, Elian's father is the obvious adult who should be Elian's guardian and excercise the rights that all parents exercise over their children- and those rights involve choices. Of course obvious doesn't have a thing to do with the law- and the entire matter will be a Cuban legal matter if Elian does not want asylum and returns to Cuba with his father. I must admit to having no knowledge of Cuban custody law.

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