Days away from her seventh birthday, a little girl named Emma Rose is currently trapped in Georgia’s foster care system, unable to reunite with the woman who has been her mother for almost a year — all because the mother is a lesbian. The prospective adoptive mother, Elizabeth Hadaway, was also sentenced to 10 days in jail earlier this month by a Wilkinson County Superior Court judge who refused to grant the adoption in part because “the child will have a long-term exposure to the homosexual parent’s lifestyle.”
The article talks a lot about the judge. Having practiced in front of Judge Parrott, I don’t think you’ll find a much finer or fairer judge. He’s a good man and good judge.
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Like I said, you are just close-minded. Plain and simple.
I never said Elizabeth Hadaway was a hero….but how could you say she is using a child? You obviously don’t know this family that has been torn apart. You are just going by black and white. Oh, and by the way, I’m all for straight men who can care for their children as opposed to WHOEVER who cannot care for them obtaining custody. It’s not that I am against the norm, I am just FOR WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THE INTEREST OF A CHILD! That is Georgia law, a thing everyone here should take into consideration.
So, all of us should do whatever we can to subvert the rule of law if we think we are in the right. Isn’t every party of every dispute certain that they are in the right?
Why do you think she should not have to file an appeal like everyone else in her position would have to? I know, I know, it is because you cannot look past the fact that she is gay, and no matter what she does to break the rule of law, it is always the result of the hatred of someone else.
Finally, aren’t judges supposed to be the ones who determine what is in the best interest of a child? If what Judge Parrott did was so egregious, then wouldn’t she be assured to get the child back on appeal?
Of course the Judge should be the one to decide what is in the best interest of the child. Parrot decided one thing, Self decided another. Who is really right here? This is two different opinions of two Judges of two counties. Aside from that, how do you possibly think that removing the child from a lesbian who loves her and has provided for her and returning her to ANOTHER lesbian (biological mother) who lives in a truck and never sent her to school and allowed her to be abused could even be ANYWHERE near what is in the child’s best interest? I never said she shouldn’t have filed an appeal.
Hey Bill, I just saw your comment about Allen Freeman’s former opponent. That was uncalled for. I’ve tossed it. Don’t do it again.
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That’s why what she did was improper. I researched the enacting legislation that created this section of code. The enitre point of this was to PREVENT jurisdictional contention. Hadaway intentional subverted the intent of the legislature to CREATE jurisdictional contention.
If she would have appealed the decision, like reasonable people would have done, I would have hoped the appellate court would have given her custody, perhaps suggesting that she move to an area more friendly to her circumstance for the BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD.
But no. She dicided to pick a fight with a judge, that I have heard is a pretty by the book guy. She painted it as a man out to get gays for no other reason than blood boiling rage, because she didn’t get her way.
Is this indicative of someone who is of good ethical and moral character? Is someone who chose to subject her potential daughter to a public circus, instead of quietly following prescribe legal remedies a good candidate for being a mother?
She and her supportes have done nothing but disparage the court, the foster family and everyone else who stands in their way. This does not earn sympathy in my book, but makes me think the people standing against her were right in their judgement.
The judge, on the other hand, has not said a word about this in the press, has not disparaged her, and has acted properly as an officer of the court. You may not agree with his reasoning for not giving custody to Hadaway. But it was within his power.
White couples are often times blocked from adopting black children because there is a concern for the preservation of the culture of the child, among other reasons. Adoption is about what is best for the CHILD, not what is “fair” for the prospective mother.
Anyway, I will let you have the last word, if you choose to respond. I think I made my case and there is little that I can add. The custody hearing is on Thrusday and that will settle it one way or the other.
Then, we can wait for the Appeals Court to settle the matter of the contempt.
If waiting were only as easy as it seems….
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