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  1. 101
    Name: Deanna Cordell on Aug 31, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I agree, just because a man helps bring a child into this world does not make him a father. Our kids depend on us to take care of them. We should not be forced to turn them over to a bad parent.
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  2. 102
    Name: Crystal Nichols on Aug 31, 2004
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  3. 103
    Name: Connie Micke on Sep 9, 2004
    State: MN
    Country: US
    Comments: my neice is losing her son to a no-good father (not married) who never supported her or the child in 7 years, but the courts awarded him custody, even after he kidnapped the child and stole him to Kansas. Great courts you have down in the Great State of Texas.
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  4. 104
    Name: Debi Combest on Sep 9, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Amye Moyer on Sep 10, 2004
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  6. 106
    Name: Amye Moyer on Sep 10, 2004
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  7. 107
    Name: Nancy Torres on Sep 16, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I agree, I have 2 son's and their dad is a dealer and his mom is hooked on crack, his dad is an alcoholic and they allow unsupervised visitation. THey are very impressionable and I dont want them to grow up as any one of them, yet what can I doI agree some laws need to be modified to help. Kids are a product of their enviorement and I dont want to see my kids in jail on drugs or worse.
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  8. 108
    Name: Nancy Torres on Sep 16, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I agree, I have 2 son's and their dad is a dealer and his mom is hooked on crack, his dad is an alcoholic and they allow unsupervised visitation. THey are very impressionable and I dont want them to grow up as any one of them, yet what can I doI agree some laws need to be modified to help. Kids are a product of their enviorement and I dont want to see my kids in jail on drugs or worse.
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  9. 109
    Name: Amber Cohoon on Sep 17, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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  10. 110
    Name: SERENA LEWIS on Sep 21, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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  11. 111
    Name: Amanda Swinden on Sep 27, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I agree with you 100%. Something has to change.
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  12. 112
    Name: Kimberly Ramirez on Sep 28, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I am kind of in the same situation. My husband has been going through a very nasty divorce and the only ones that are getting hurt are the kids. His ex will verbally bash him in front of the kids and there have been so many problems that the kids are to scared to tell their mom anything. She has custody of the kids only because she make over 100,000 a year and that's working part time. I wish that we could get someone in the courts to look at this and see what is best for the kids, money are mental health and love
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  13. 113
    Name: Stephanie Roberts on Sep 28, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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  14. 114
    Name: Angela Rylant on Sep 30, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: This story hits so close to home, because the same thing sort of happened to me. My ex has never made an attempt to even see my son or pay child support, and when we went to court the judge made me look so inferior to him because i couldn't afford a lawyer. It was completley unfair, and i just don't have enough room to even tell my entire story. This state gives no motivation whatsoever for any deadbeat fathers to even get up and get a job. It has gotten to the point that I am ready to move out of here because there is no justice for single moms, especially low-income moms. If anyone wants to hear my story, drop me an email.
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  15. 115
    Name: Brooklyn Riley on Oct 1, 2004
    State: WA
    Country: US
    Comments: I'm going through a custody battle right involving Texas and I with you on trying to get some of these laws changed. It is ridiculous that we live in a country that allows us to have freedom of so many things yet were still chased down by our own state laws that we thought were supposed to protect us and save us from harm and fear.
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  16. 116
    Name: Kaleena Bell on Oct 4, 2004
    State: MD
    Country: US
    Comments: I live in Maryland and my son is In Texas. and my ex husband lawyer said that i am not aloud to bring my son in my home in Maryland. i think that is unfar to me and my child that he is not able to see my side of the family just his. i can't get back and forth out there i do have a job and anouther child to raise.
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  17. 117
    Name: Bryan Woodside on Oct 13, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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  18. 118
    Name: Bobbie Huskins on Oct 14, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: Regarding non-marrage a father/sperm donor as I call them steels a child away from a mother before court custody procedures should not have the rights to keep the child until such matter is taken care of a child should never be taken away from a mother unless the mother is truly unfit drugs etc, some men want just to use the child to get the mother to come back, I want to see new rules on this issue, some sperm donors just don't need to have rights at all. And if a sperm donor does not pay child support or misses then he should not be able to see the child.
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  19. 119
    Name: Sheila Marcos on Oct 14, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I myself have been a victim of these poor laws as an abused wife who left after my ex-husband tried to punch my oldest daughter in the face, which a CPS worker witnessed the aftermath of. During the divorce that I was ordered back to Texas for and, which took almost two years he was arrested for felony assault on me and violating a protective order. In the end after he had hit me with a car and numerous other horrible things and yet He ended up with joint consevatership of our two beautiful daughters who now after visiting him weekends for two years don't even want to see him anymore. I want to move to another state where I have a better job offer as the law stands if I want to keep my girls I either fight him in court or leave them with him (which I would never do.
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  20. 120
    Name: Joyce Button on Oct 15, 2004
    State: OR
    Country: US
    Comments: Protect the children first.
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  21. 121
    Name: William Ashley on Oct 17, 2004
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  22. 122
    Name: Lorraine Ashley on Oct 17, 2004
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  23. 123
    Name: Shana Bush on Oct 18, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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  24. 124
    Name: Jennifer Bunce on Oct 21, 2004
    State: NY
    Country: US
    Comments: I AM going through about the same thing in the State Of Arkansas.But he is a 11 yr. drug addict and I m the bad parent for getting out
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  25. 125
    Name: KAREN DWYER on Oct 26, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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  26. 126
    Name: Ruiz Elva on Nov 10, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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  27. 127
    Name: Lorri O'Connor on Nov 13, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: My husband and I are trying to get custody of my step daughter. We kept going to our lawyer telling her about how sick she was and how her teeth were literally rotting out of her mouth. She was 4 yars old and almot all of her teeth were black. Nothing could be done. SO we called CPS. They said she was fine. Then with gods mercy we started to get her on the days tht we could take her to the doctor and had the proof that with her being sick for that long (I mean sick for 7 months straight out of the year) gave her asthma and we had proof that her teeth were so bad all of them had to be capped and the cost was over $2,000. And CPS said that she was fine. She would tell us stories of no food in the hous, her mother telling us that when someone hurts you it's only an accident, and much much more. Now her motheris making my step daughter use her ex-husbands last name and our daughter isn't even living with her mother so why are we paying child support. I baught her a coat a week ago and I bumped into her at the store today and she wasn't even wearing it. Last year she didn't have a winter coat because she kept throwing the cloths tha we baught her away. Thats how she remained sick. Her mother puts on this show like she's a good person, but she's constantly telling my step daugter bad things to make us look bad, teaching her how to tough and can't live in one spot for more that 2 months. I just pray that we can get enough evidence to prove that she is an unfit mother because in the state of Texas that a hard thing to do.
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  28. 128
    Name: Margie Hoffman on Nov 17, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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  29. 129
    Name: Tanya Farral on Dec 22, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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  30. 130
    Name: SYLVIA NUNCIO on Jan 16, 2005
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  31. 131
    Name: Barbara Fargen on Jan 19, 2005
    State: WI
    Country: US
    Comments: This is happening all over the united states, it's a national disgrace, Here in Wisconsin , violent abusive men are winning custody. This must stop
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  32. 132
    Name: Maria Guerra on Feb 5, 2005
    State: KY
    Country: US
    Comments: Though I live in Kentucky, I have experienced the Texas judicial system regarding child custody, and whole-heartedly agree, the laws must change to protect the children...
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  33. 133
    Name: Shahnaz Davis on Feb 9, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: Yes, yes the laws need to be changed and I support ousting any congressperson who does not agree.
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  34. 134
    Name: Yvette Vasquez on Feb 10, 2005
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  35. 135
    Name: Alandra Arrington on Feb 11, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I 100% agree with you I am in a simular situation myself. I believe if we the parents do not stand up and fight for our children's rights and safety than who wil. Thank you for what you are doing.
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  36. 136
    Name: Mary Stacks on Feb 13, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: My name is Mary Stacks-Terry, I live in Kingsland, Texas and I am interested in changing laws as far as the 72 hour wait for missing children and/or persons. Texas has a real need for protecting the rights of children with parents on parole for violent crimes. I am a survivor of a long drawn out divorce of three years. Now at three years of this man stalking, following, harrassing,etc. family, friends, and I. He having joint custodial conservatorship of our little girl, Shona Terry, whom is now 4 years old. Her father decided he wouldn't return her after visitation and she was logged with The National Center for missing children. After a 8 day search for Shona her father decided to go to his monthly parole appointment where they apprehended him and incarcerated him. He has now been extradited to Florida where he was convicted of a 1975 2nd degree murder charge to be on parole for his natural life. But he was incarcerated in 1975, parole released in 1981, revoked parole in 1991,parole released in 1996, I met him 1998 and had no idea.......
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  37. 137
    Name: EDWINA MOHR on Feb 14, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: MY EX SON IN LAW WAS CONVICTED OF INJURY TO A CHILD" REGARDING MY GRANDSON. BUT BECAUSE HE DID NOT HURT MY GRANDDAUGHTER HE STILL HAS VISITATION RIGHTS WITH HER. IT IS A CONSTANT BATTLE WITH HIM. THE LAW SHOULD BE THAT IF YOU HURT ONE CHILD AND ARE CONVICTED OF THAT CRIME, YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY RIGHTS TO ANY REMAINING CHILDREN. THEY NEED TO BE PROTECTED.
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  38. 138
    Name: Shahnaz Davis on Mar 2, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: US
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  39. 139
    Name: Natasha Knutsen on Mar 3, 2005
    State: ID
    Country: US
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  40. 140
    Name: Diane Smith on Mar 6, 2005
    State: WA
    Country: US
    Comments: This is so wrong. We have family in this state and the dad is here and cannot get his children. This needs to change before it is to late.
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  41. 141
    Name: Denise McCorkle on Mar 8, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I agree 100%. My ex is a documented child abuser through CPS, but the juge gave him possession of our daughter anyway. This kind of blatant ignorance must stop on the part of our "judicial system". The children should hav ethe say-so, no matter what their age!! And if the parent has a history of over 111 years of abuse & neglect, plus a felony background, they should NEVER, EVER be given ANY form of custody of a child!
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  42. 142
    Name: Tonya Barker on Mar 9, 2005
    State: GA
    Country: US
    Comments: My son's father has been allowed to physically be abusive to me, my son, threaten to kidnap our son, and mentally cruel to our son and the courts will not step in. Some thing has to change.
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  43. 143
    Name: Reva Gayton on Mar 9, 2005
    State: TN
    Country: US
    Comments: I think this is great that there is a movement like this trying to be passed! My sister is in the same situation. Her children's father is abusive towards her and has a horriffic anger problem. Yet he is still getting the kids when he wants to. It is not a fact of not getting along with one another -it is for the children. He has made countless threats to harm her or take the children and he would not have any idea what to do with them. I am scared for all of them. Just because someone is the father (or even mother) of the child does not mean that they are the best ones to take them! In this case it is the father who is unfit to even have them for the hours a week that he does get them. This is absurd that the laws are "supposed" to protect so many children yet there are so many dying at the hands of their own parents!
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  44. 144
    Name: Kathy Summers on Mar 16, 2005
    State: TX
    Country:
    Comments: I'm currently involved in a nightmare beyond belief, myself. At home mother for 9yrs. w/my 3 children. Helping my son reach maximum potential with his autism recovery while serving (happily) as PTA Pres, Ways and Means, also room mommyx3, Reading Tutor for school district, and "kool-aid" house for neighborhood kids was my life, my first breath in the morning and my last sigh at night. I was happy - not in my marraige, though. So I asked for a divorce. AND LOST EVERYTHING. My kids, my house (80% of cash downpayment on house was from MY money earned from working and from my family), my friends,my faith in the legal system. My husband lashed out on me by telling lies of adultry and drug use. All unfounded, and untrue. I was homeless (basically) and had no support system , he made sure my resources where unavailable including family. 1month ago after 1.6yrs of me screeming into the wind for help, the 2nd lawyer I hired was unable to get me out from under the eight ball and the judge (even w/no evidence and not sure himself what had happend since none of his complaintes seemed to have any basis in truth decided to rule against me. Too much time had gone by. I have been denied visitation (even court ordered)by my x, denied all contact, communication, access to the school I once spent so much time at, denied my life, my motherhood. Everyone now sees what he has done, that his stories were his vindictive plan to punish me for leaving him- but it's too late. He's done the same to my father because he hired me an atty. who spec. in child custody. He has not seen his grandkids (only ones he'll ever have) in 5mos. I haven't seen them in 2mos. I've almost given up hope. How can a desicion like this be made w/out thoroghly investigating the allegations The legal system has so many safety measures to protect criminals and frivolous behavior it's sickening. But there seems to be nothing protecting me, a mother who has never had any one question her judgement or love for her kids. I guess the person who screems the loudest and gathers athe most people on their side wins, what a shame.
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  45. 145
    Name: Elizabeth Ansley on Mar 31, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I want the child custody law changed! I have not had my children in 23 months now and I only have had 2 speeding tickets in my entire time of driving!But! the judge has placed my children with the kid's paternal Grandmother and their own father has a rap sheet as long as my neighborhood! and "EVERYONE" in that family does drugs!
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  46. 146
    Name: Kimberly Ogden on Apr 1, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: US
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  47. 147
    Name: Letha Thomas on Apr 1, 2005
    State: OK
    Country: US
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  48. 148
    Name: Angela Byrd on Apr 21, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: Please, let get the laws change that there should not be a time limit where evident of abuse can be summitted. If he abuse once, he will abuse again. The abuse record should be open for as long as the child is in danager of being in their custody.
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  49. 149
    Name: Cindy Sullivan on Apr 26, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: US
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  50. 150
    Name: Kyla Smith on Apr 27, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: AF
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