Subj : Re: Pennsylvania Dads
To   : Tobias Ernst
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Wed Mar 27 2024 14:00:32

 TE> However, I think the issue is not with Pennsylvania alone. CPS and
 TE> family   courts on the whole world tend to get things wrong about half
 TE> of the time,   meaning you could just as well replace all those
 TE> "experts" on child   welfare with a monkey rolling a dice.

Tobias, thanks for your reply. You get it. I see it the same way. The family court system is extremely flawed. Maybe their logic made sense hundreds of years ago, but times have changed and now children need their fathers.

 TE> with my   first and only wife, and still CPS took one child away from me.

I'm sorry that this happened to you and to your child. (And of course it affects the entire family.)

 TE> The child in question is a daughter who reached "those years" of turning
 TE> into a woman exactly when the Covid lockdowns kicked in and became  

This scenario has similarities to mine. My son is 16 and he has major depressive disorder. At the most recent court hearing, his grandmother told the judge "He has threatened to kill himself if he's forced to see his father," and the judge looked at me and said "With that being the case, do you still want to proceed with your petition for custody?"

The judge seems to think that the child is in charge. With that logic, the child can get anything he wants by threatening to kill himself. Maybe he wants a helicopter and a million dollars, well, I guess we know how he can obtain those things too! :)

 TE> intervention. We hope and pray she sobers up when she   grows older and
 TE> realizes one day we are still there to provide true love   and better
 TE> support than the governmant can ever provide.

That's a good point! Maybe there's a political motivation behind all this. Maybe the courts want children to depend on the government, so that the government can exert more control over them throughout their lives.

I hope that you get reunited with your daughter some day! Fathers are just as important as mothers, and maybe even more important than mothers during the teen years.

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