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This is the heart-rending case of a little girl she named Vanessa, her father, Benjamin Mills and the woman who wants to adopt her, Stacey Doss.
1 posted on 07/12/2010 12:15:16 PM PDT by fathers1
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To: fathers1

Men, keep your pants on until you get married.

It is for your own protection as well as your child’s.

Women can abort your kids without so much as notifying you.

And don’t tell me you use birth control. It is not anywhere near 100% effective.


2 posted on 07/12/2010 12:17:34 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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‘Adoption doesn’t have to be complicated.’

But it does take a long time.

We started trying to adopt an older child 3 years ago. Last year, we finally was introduced to our first child at the end of July (two years into the process).

We are FINALLY going to finalize the process with her at the first of August (one year after we met).

If parents were made to wait that long before they were permitted to have a baby, we might just have better parents.


4 posted on 07/12/2010 12:23:57 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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In the leftist lexicon of Newspeak, racism = I don’t like you. The term has been overused into irrelevance.


6 posted on 07/12/2010 12:28:19 PM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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Do we finally understand the wisdom of our ancestors and their adherence to biblical piety?

Do we understand the sanctity of marriage and why it is so vital to a civilized society?

Do we understand that our civil laws were written to protect children?


11 posted on 07/12/2010 12:37:33 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
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There should be a way to punish the people here who tried to deny the father his rights. The Mother lied and it looks like the adoptive Mother knew ths wasn’t right but did it anyway. Both here should have to pay.


12 posted on 07/12/2010 12:37:44 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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It’s not heart rending at all.

I have no sympathy for the kidnapper Ms. Doss. She knowingly tried to steal a man’s daughter.


14 posted on 07/12/2010 12:41:24 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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Apparently he’s fathered other children with whom he has little or no relationship.

These children are currently living with grandmother who has custody. This is also where little Vanessa would live.

16 posted on 07/12/2010 12:43:19 PM PDT by Faith
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I dont feel sorry for the new “Mommy” one bit...

what kind of example would sher be to this child...lying, deceit, illegal adoption...

She knowingly attempted to deprive the father of his right to his daughter...

She should have included him in the proceedings...

and then if/when he had been proven to be unfit she would have walked free and clear with the baby...

Or if he got the baby and then became unfit in the future...which he may very well do...

She would have a strong case for adoption since she had prior proven herself capable of considering the childs “best interests” and not her own wants...

Now however she has proven to be unfit herself..

and capable of lying to the court and duplicity...

He now has a stronger case than ever...

If he gets the child and is declared unfit in the future, she will not have any rights to claim the child...or very little..


17 posted on 07/12/2010 12:43:22 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Benjamin Mills better be very careful here. He is playing with fire.

I wouldn’t be suprized if some feminist family court judge rules against him, and for the adoptive mother, AND RULES THAT HE MUST PAY CHILD SUPPORT FOR 18 YEARS.

(Think that won’t happen?)


19 posted on 07/12/2010 12:43:51 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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“Doss and her mother arrived in Dayton on June 14, 2008, the day after Vanessa’s birth. ... ‘It wasn’t until the end of September that we got the result of the DNA testing.’ “

When was the baby’s DNA tested and why? Was it court-ordered? When did the biological father get his DNA tested? How long did it take to get the results back?

The questions I am getting to are: Who should have been the baby’s caregiver from June 13th to the end of September? Should the prospective adoptive mother been given custody during that period and allowed to take the baby out of state?

Perhaps some believe babies should be taken from their adoptive parents and put into some sort of foster care as soon as a man, any man, initially states “Hold everything! It might be mine!” If so, a whole new method of legal blackmail has just been created.

No easy answers. Other than celibacy, or maintaining a DNA registry of every male in the country and testing every baby at birth, how can cases like this be prevented?


36 posted on 07/12/2010 2:05:52 PM PDT by StayAt HomeMother
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I like how this article doesn't mention he was in prison for Domestic Violence. I think this should play a HUGE part in the case.

Mills Jr. has served time in prison for domestic violence and he does not have custody of any of his five children, family members said. Montgomery County Children Services has an open case involving Mills’ older children.

“He’s changed,” his father said. “He’s a good father to them.”

Mills Sr. said that two of his son’s children, Vanessa’s full siblings, are in the custody of Mills Jr.’s 62-year-old mother, Rena Jordan. Several times during an interview with the Dayton Daily News, the elder Mills said his son intended to place Vanessa in the custody of his mother, but he later said, “I don’t really know what he’s doing.”

37 posted on 07/12/2010 2:06:22 PM PDT by Rezod21
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