This year and last year, Senator Hargrove killed 2 bills in committee that would have given this mother 1/3 time with her kid without having to spend a nickel. He also voted to kill a similar amendment to his own bill in which he gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the corrupt lobby that opposed shared parenting while making a tidy profit off of divorce and custody battles.
In this most recent case it was the mother, not the father that was eliminated from the child’s life. The bottom line is she didn’t want to go bankrupt trying to see her kid. How would the Senator feel about this boy’s death being on his doorstep? How would you feel being the parent paying child support for this child while having no parental rights or time?
Thankfully a neighbor stepped in. Had Senator Hargrove done the right thing last year, there would have been 1-3 more adults involved in this kid's life. Hillary Clinton had some slogan about that.
I normally don’t point out individual cases as reference for championing legislation as there are plenty of monsters on both sides of the gender fence. For every mother that drowns her kids in the tub, there is an a-hole father that starves a kid to death. That is exactly why shared parenting is necessary- further with the growing presence of meth, there needs to be additional mechanisms for grandparents to assert guardianship over their grandkids. Family is something you fight to preserve, not destroy for a profit.
It’s certainly not in the child’s best interest to waste away until the buffoons at DSHS come to the rescue. No thanks again to all the folks in the DV industry for helping to starve this and other children to death with abusive parents. This is the effect of your lobby getting a 30% cut of every marriage license fee.
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Here, here!
The term was "it takes a village" and regardless of who said it, its true. Had this poor little boy been SHARED by BOTH SIDES of the family, the issues (especially the starvation) would have come to light because he wouldn't have been hidden from one side of the family. SOMEONE would have noticed. Mom would have had him at least 1/3 of the time and fed him. Grandma would have seen him....something would have been done here. Instead the astronomical costs of attorneys and the BS that one has to go through in family court prevented TRUE justice for this child.
Senator Hargrove and members of the Human Services Committee (save the two gentlemen who have told us they are FOR shared parenting) I hope you sleep well at night with this on your shoulders. And this isn't the only one you can shoulder the blame for...
Be careful when you suggest grandparents having rights to the grandchildren. This can be greatly abused. The rights should remain with the parents - both parents that is.
I am finding out that there are a few of us in this State that believe that this system is corrupt. I am seeing it in Thurston County and it sickens me to death! This D.V. stuff is a joke. They get hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money for D.V. things. I guess they have got to keep feeding the system! Meanwhile, countless little boys and girls are going without seeing their fathers.
Regardless of what the liberal left wants us to believe, Fathers are crucial in the lives of their children.
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