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this “smoking gun” cause Massachusetts citizens to realize how the Globe Seeks to Punish Father Who Raised Son Ignores Teenager and Mother’s Well-Being January 16, 2001 The Boston Globe was excited this past weekend because a father, who had taken his toddler son from New York state and raised him to the age of 16, had been discovered in the town of Newbury last Friday by the FBI and police. The Globe put a large picture of the mother at the top of its front page on Saturday with the headline, “A Bittersweet Reunion, After 14 years, mother finds son; father charged.” But the feminist joy turned to dismay on Saturday when the Globe discovered that the reason the father had taken the boy as a two-year-old was because the mother was abusive to the child and because she was on drugs, according to the father. The paper was more dismayed to find that the mother, who has apparently never married, “has had breakdowns and twice attempted suicide.” She is in therapy and has put her other children “in positions where they can thrive,” two of whom are with their fathers and one is part-time in foster care. And yet the 16-year-old was given to this mother — who is a stranger to him — on Friday by the police, in cooperation with the DSS, while his father and present wife were put in jail. There was no mention of what happened to the two younger children of the father and his wife. They are eight- and three-years-old. The 16-year-old immediately expressed concern about these children who are still in Massachusetts. What
Should Have Been Done? One police officer should have arrived at the home by himself in the daytime. He should have mediated with both parents as to what would happen next. That would have been the only intelligent thing to do—unless the police are controlled by the feminists who hate men and who control our courts. Anyone knows that every child needs to have both parents, his mother and his father. In this case, the teenager is unable to have both at the same time, but he should learn to know each of them. His father has never told him anything negative about his mother. Why didn’t the FBI and the Newbury police know this? Why didn’t the DSS know this? What have they accomplished? The boy spent only one night with his mother and then told her on Saturday that under New York law he was “emancipated” at age 16, and he wanted to live with his father. He spent that night with his father’s family. What a terrible blow to this mother which could have been foreseen by any intelligent person. Has this episode done this mother any good? Has it benefited the boy in any way? What this story has done is to illustrate the desperate steps that responsible fathers must take in order to help their children. This teenager told his mother, who had taken him back to her home in Oneonta in central New York, “I just want to go back to my family.” The Globe says, “By that time [the mother’s] perspective had changed dramatically from Friday morning, when she first learned that police had found her son in Newbury. For the first time, she clearly understood that her son was not coming to live with her. He had a life, a family, and friends in Newbury, he told her. That was where he belonged.” It’s a sad commentary that the courts of Massachusetts and the Boston Globe have put this entire family through this ordeal. Hopefully, we have all learned from it. We have told the story about another father, Ken Newell, who has tried to work with the courts of Massachusetts for two years but has been thwarted and frustrated at every turn. What do we need to do to stop our courts from demonizing fathers? That question is on the minds and hearts of many. Sidebar:
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