what best serves the child interest? the issue that needs to be considered is whether there is some sort of bond the child has to this other person, the rupture of which might cause emotional harm to the child..........or whether the child’s best’s interest would to protect her from this other adult.........you have to put best interests of the child first, adults be damned..they are the ones that created this mess
How is this different than the following scenario:
1. Woman has child out of wedlock.
2. Woman gets married to man.
3. Man adopts child.
4. Woman divorces man.
5. Woman remarries (a new man.)
6. Woman say “I don’t want first husband to see the child because I’ve left him, moved on, and started a new life by with another husband.”
7. First husband fights for rights to see child he adopted.
This is, unfortunatly, not that uncommon a scenario in America today. The core problem in the story is less about sexual orientation, and more about the fact that we have a society that doesn’t support (an often works against) stable, long term marriages.
Come on give it up. Children have emotional ties to many different people throughout their lives. I had a best friend who moved away and it caused me emotional distress. We are creating a culture of idiots who can’t let go. I will always support the rights and freedoms of a biological parent who has not been found unfit to control the destiny of her and her children. The courts are causing undue harm in these cases by trying to split the difference. These type of adoptions should never be legal in the first place they are a mockery of what a family should be.