I was a single mother for many years. I raised four kids. They’re now all adults. And I know how many adults feel such keen pain having had an absent father.
Little boys and little girls need fathers.
So in walks a man (Jake) to me who has a two-and-a-half-year-old son. And he hasn’t seen them in a year.
Jake and the mom made an agreement before birth not to marry but to share equally in the raising of the children.
Neither one is American. They are from different countries with different customs.
While the father of the child was out running errands, the mother decided the baby would be circumsized. As a Jew, I support that decision. But the father, not being Jewish, felt betrayed. The hospital did not have two signatures on the form that yes, they agreed with this small surgical procedure.
By the time the father got back, the doctor said, well, we can’t put it back now.
This is horrific. Why was it OK for one parent to make all the decisions when nothing had been established by the court?
