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  • OMG! I am not ready for the adoptive daughter to find us!

    01/15/2016 7:00:26 PM PST · by EBH · 116 replies
    1/15/2016
    Last weekend my now deceased brother's daughter contacted the family. She was given up at birth, but her older brother never was. I am NOT happy about revisiting the circumstances or the results and demise of my brother, her father, with her. Giving a child up for adoption is almost like committing suicide. It is the last out...for the future. I have no way of candy coating her biological father. He was beyond evil in many ways. So far so, that he is the only reason I installed an alarm system on my house at the time. And he was...
  • Ex-lesbian battles former partner over child

    12/08/2004 12:54:48 AM PST · by JohnHuang2 · 49 replies · 1,841+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, December 8, 2004
    A woman who gave birth to a child months before entering a same-sex civil union in Vermont is appealing a court ruling that granted parental standing to her former partner. Cheryl Barlow, who says she no longer is a lesbian, was united with Keri Jones, both residents of Utah, five months after Barlow became pregnant by artificial insemination in 2001. But the relationship ended in 2003 after Barlow discovered Jones was seeing another woman. Jones then sued for parental visitation rights to Barlow's child and was granted favor by Judge Timothy Hanson in Utah's 3rd District Court in Salt Lake...