Women's Rights & Issues
Related: About this forumRepublican bill in Montana may give rapists the right to co-parent the children of their victims.
Link to tweet
My rapist fought for custody of my daughter. States can't keep survivors tied to rapists.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/06/19/abortion-laws-bans-rape-parental-rights-column/1432450001/
After I became pregnant as a result of the attack, I did not want to think of myself as a victim. I chose to carry my pregnancy to term. It gave me hope that I was not completely broken and destroyed. But it was my personal decision to have my daughter and raise her.
I did not expect to feel the horror and shock that came years later, in 2010, when my rapist tried to claim custody of my child.
My rapist was never convicted for what he did to me. When the day came that I was served with court papers on his behalf, I was terrified of the danger this posed for my child, who had no idea what I would have to go through to protect her.
Rape victims who gave birth to their attackers' children open up on the outrageous reality of CO-PARENTING with the sex predators who ruined their lives
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8514777/Rape-victims-fighting-change-laws-allowing-rapists-parental-rights-children.html
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)riversedge
(73,126 posts)seems it was more than one at that time. Repugs are pushing their states like this in Red legislative states.
niyad
(119,909 posts)riversedge
(73,126 posts)"..... rapist parenting rights are a priority in Helena [#Montana] this week" from a responder to your post.
niyad
(119,909 posts)I do not want to EVER hear these f'n bastards whining about "family values" or "think of the children".
lostnfound
(16,635 posts)Psycho GOP creeps trying to allow this. Insane.
RAB910
(3,954 posts)Celerity
(46,192 posts)4Q2u2
(1,406 posts)We do not protect our children. We do not protect the people who need it the most. Our laws are a cudgel used to beat the populace.
Male victims of Statutory Rape are made to pay child support as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermesmann_v._Seyer
https://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/parental-rights-and-sexual-assault.aspx
GemDigger
(4,327 posts)GemDigger
(4,327 posts)RainCaster
(11,544 posts)Not the pandemic,
economy,
minority rights,
voting,
or democracy.
GemDigger
(4,327 posts)Hestia
(3,818 posts)"It's a permanent reminder of a temporary situation"
Now, it's like the conversation never comes up and IMNSHO, keeps the woman as a perpetual victim. Why anyone whatsoever would have their rapist's child is beyond me. The rapists' DNA is now a part of the child's gene pool - why that bring that into the child's life? I know I sure wouldn't want to. After the child finds out, then they too become victimized for the rest of their lives.
The conversation needs be turned around.
TexasTowelie
(116,768 posts)and that she is blaming state staffers that wrote the bill. Gillette is also receiving death threats.
https://dailymontanan.com/2021/01/29/representative-faces-criticism-for-role-in-withdrawn-bill-lawmakers-say-threats-go-too-far/