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


To: Rock_nj who wrote (2900)4/26/2000 1:39:00 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9127
 
Well you thought wrong. It's not automatically the case. Maybe one good thing about this episode is we all will be a little more knowledgeable about US custody laws.

I thought the law states that a child belongs with his surviving parent?



To: Rock_nj who wrote (2900)4/26/2000 4:36:00 PM
From: Adelantado  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9127
 
"I thought the law states that a child belongs with his surviving parent?"

Don't let reason get into the way of the anticastro thought process. When a child is born in Cuba lands in the U.S. by surviving a selfish mother who risks the life of her 5 year old child to travel in an unsafe, open boat in shark infested waters to be with her boy friend in Florida then the law changes to: Custody should be given to the first member of the child's extended family or anyone at all able to get on TV with the loudest messge against the Cuban government and its political system dispite the fact that the child has an adequate father with a proven ability and desire to be the parent.

The child-parent bond should not have any weight at all under these special circumstances, and any comment regarding the consequences of breaking the child-parent bond for political reasons should be quickly smothered or out screamed by loudspeakers and anticastro chants.