Posted on 07/27/2022 9:55:27 AM PDT by fwdude
Jeannette Cooper never imagined she’d lose custody of her only child.
A Chicago resident and lifelong educator who spent her entire adult life surrounded by children, Cooper considered herself a loving and responsible mother. After she and her husband divorced in 2015, she won custody of their daughter six days and seven nights a week.
Cooper says the two shared a happy, healthy mother-daughter relationship, bonding over their love for board games and progressive politics.
But on July 22, 2019, after a regular custodial visit to her father’s house, Cooper’s daughter, then 12, refused to come home. The next morning, she insisted not only that she was transgender, but that she felt “unsafe” around her mom.
Cooper didn’t understand. Her daughter never before had exhibited signs of gender dysphoria. In fact, her daughter exhibited many more traditionally feminine behaviors and preferences than she herself ever did, Cooper says.
What followed was an almost Kafkaesque series of court proceedings and therapy sessions in Cook County, Illinois, in which Cooper’s ex-husband, lawyers, therapists, and other individuals and institutions supposedly concerned with her daughter’s best interests worked to erode Cooper’s most basic parenting rights.
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To those conservatives who are dismissive of "social issues," you do not know what you are doing.
Sounds like the ex found the new hook to steal away the kid.
For sure the dad hates this arrangement. Maybe the kid does too. Push the "transgender" button and get what you want.
“Cooper says the two shared a happy, healthy mother-daughter relationship, bonding over their love for board games and progressive politics.”
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Live by the sword, die by the sword.
LOL. Bonded with her 12 yo with progressive politics. It’s ironic those same politics are causing her to lose custody. KARMA.
Yep, and brainwashed the kid to play along.
“To those conservatives who are dismissive of “social issues”
Very few are dismissive, many people are defeated, they fight then they lose.
Maybe those you refer to have been torn to shreds already.
You reap what you sow.
But on July 22, 2019, after a regular custodial visit to her father’s house, Cooper’s daughter, then 12...
The daughter was 12 - and younger - and they bonded over progressive politics?!
Perhaps I'm just too ignorant to understand, but could someone please explain to me how much "love of progressive politics" a tween or pre-tween could have?
Child abuse pure and simple
What a crap dad
Lawyers can come up with some novel arguments in child custody cases.
5.56mm
“bonding over their love for board games and progressive politics.”
...this should be a dream come true for the mom. Her politics certainly warrant such action. She ought to be in jail for pushing her “progressive politics” on a child. Screw her. 0 sympathy.
It’s a screwed up world when trying to get your child proper mental health care is called abuse.
You'll find quite a few strictly "fiscal conservatives" here on FR. There are not "few." They have absolute contempt for the conservative values once accepted without debate only a generation ago. They're the ones who insist during election season that "social issues are a losing position to take." All the while, the left takes the field by default.
I don't disagree, but the point is that this strategy can be duplicated in all kinds of other families, conservative or leftist.
“You’ll find quite a few“
Then I guess I will.
Child abuse pure and simple
What a crap dad
Give a 12 year old a phone, a few gifts, relax a few rules and you can get them to admit they killed Kennedy.
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