| Anytime I hear somebody post about a father willing to sign over his parental rights, it breaks my heart. I guess it's a sad reality in this day and age. I don't know why they would want to. Even if they never see their child, send a money, or participate in their lives in anyway, why sign over rights.
I just see the day the child grows, is playing around in moms dresser drawer and finds this form. A form in which it states I want nothing to do with this child, which is how it will read to them. That breaks my heart. Everybody wants to feel that they are loved. I think if it's lost with our parents it's my belief it spirals from there.
That child finish his teen years goes into adult life, all with the heavy burden and knowledge that he was not loved enough to want his or her father to keep that precious right.
I'd like to tell all the fathers out there that choose to do this, or are thinking of doing this. To stop and think for a moment what you are really doing. Also please think of the message this child will someday get, and they will get it, by you signing over those rights. Consider other options, or just step away but don't make a child pay, emotionally, for something you don't want. |