I WANT TO ADOPT ALL THE KITTIES, ALL OF THEM!!! I can't wait until my life situation is stable enough to adopt a cat, or five.

A baby is emotionally affected by being taken away from their mother from very early on. A baby feels like their mother is an extension of themselves, they perceive themselves as the same person.

Yes generally they are talking about instances in which the patriarchy hurts men too.

So...this would be one of the few instances where they actually have a point?

And yet, if you decide you want to yank your uterus out to make you autonomous and not susceptible to being treated as a human incubator, good luck finding a doctor who will do it.

They call him by a different name. This is about power. Ego and power.

I live in the PNW, and from various friend and relatives that have gone through divorce heard that Washington State is notorious for siding with women. So much so that friends in Oregon will move to Washington temporarily to file for divorce. That said, they are also notorious for going after child support hard. I…

Fair enough. Do you know if her so-called absconding was the sole rationale for the transferal of custody? Seems like there'd have to be something worse than that to take an infant from its mother.

Me, too. Hugs. I pay support and medical premiums to the ex husband making more than five times what I do. And he travels extensively and leaves the kids with his new wife. No amount of begging gets them to give me the kids during his trips, and the new wife won't do homework with them so their grades are slipping.…

You lost that bet. How much are you sending me? The school is a mile from her house. It's 16 miles from mine.

You actually have no idea what you're talking about. No she didn't think she lost.

Again, if I carried a baby to term and gave birth to it, and the father sued for full custody and a name-change only after the miscarriage of his wife's child, I'd probably try to pull some things, too. She didn't do anything too smart, which probably hurt her in court, but the sympathy still lies with her, here,…

Even if that's true, it shouldn't matter.

Besides previous comment, the mom moved to go to school. That isn't an instant decision- that takes planning. I'd support her even if she *had* run away for better legal chances, but the college factor indicates that she'd had this in the works for at least 8 months before moving, indicating that the move was for…

If I was pregnant with a kid and the father asked me to abort said kid, and then suddenly did a 180 after meeting a new lady and suddenly wanted full custody of the kid, to the extent of *changing the kid's name*, I'd "shop around" for a better state, too. If he wanted split custody somehow, I'd listen, but this is…

I wish. But 'personhood' is a thing too.

She only exists when she's pregnant with an Important Person's fetus, you know. Otherwise she's a non entity.

"her appropriation of the child while in utero was irresponsible, reprehensible."

You're a lot more optimistic than I am. I think it's entirely possible - probable even - that these 4 will be viewed as martyrs sacrificed on the altar of "political correctness." I hope I'm wrong.

Good.