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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Young who wrote (79)	1/10/2000 2:52:00 PM
From: art slott	Respond to of 9127

>>We didn't kidnap the boy, his mother brought him here. << No but the boys mother may have. But thats not the point. I didn't know putting him with his real and loving father was a brutal situation. For many folks in the US life has been brutal. Many countries would have felt returning a black child to the US in the last century would not have been in the child best interests, brutal perhaps. But, it would have been wrong to not return that black child to his father also.

To: Michael Young who wrote (79)	1/10/2000 5:54:00 PM
From: Eric Goethals	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

Good post Michael. I say the father abandoned the Boy. I will summarize: The father runs out on his Wife and Boy. The father starts his new family with younger wife. The Wife gets inadequate child support from the father. The fathers time spent with the boy turns almost non-existent. The Boy resents father for leaving his mother. The discriminated against Latin American Wife cannot provide for her and her son in the same way the father can. Communist government makes things worse. Now it is too difficult for the Wife to make ends meet. The Wife, by hook or by crook, gets money for rickety passage to America. If successful, the Wife will have a better life for herself and more importantly her son. The Wife feels the USA is worth risking her and her Sons life over. BOTH Wife and Boy felt abandoned and have nothing to loose. Disaster strikes, only the Boy survives. Miami cousins take in Boy. Boy NEVER reported to be crying for his father. VERY abnormal. The fathers Brother talks to the boy and I bet a thousand dollars the brother asked the boy if he wanted to go back to his father. IF the Boys answer was YES, I believe the Boy would not be in the US anymore. Nobody can be that UN-humanitarian against the love between a boy and his father. The only thing to conclude is abandonment by the father. A normal father son relationship would have the Boy in crying tantrums no matter how many trips to Disneyland they take. It has not happened. I say keep the kid in the good old USA and to hell with the father and his new family.