Can a rapist stop an adoption?
I am thinking of course of exreme examples today as I watch a Law and Order marathon, but if someone rapes a woman, the woman give birth and chooses adoption, does the rapist have parental rights and stop the adoption.
Again, just wondering if others have thought of this or researched it.
I agree. If the rapist came forward during the adoption and said "I raped her! It's my kid!", after they'd be put in jail and it's hard to be a honest parent from jail.
I hope not, that's sinking to an all time low to allow someone who violated a woman and next does it again legally. Can you imagine the kind of crimes that would create if some unstable guy get it into his head he wanted to be a father...and that was the individual way he figures it could happen. sick...
I doubt if he's be changed he could stop it. From prison hows he going to raise a baby. And why would social services allow a man convicted of the kind of crime make higher the child? Imagine the physiological damage that could do to a kid. I know a lot of people here resembling to keep a child with the biological family no situation what, but to me thats extreme to hand a baby over to a father who raped the mother. In that DNA should be second to the childs well one.
Show like law and order want ratings. I suppose it makes a viewer think and view the show for the drama.
No I have not thought of this. But contained by order for him to even be able to say he is the father he would own to admit to raping the women and then he would go to top-security prison and I do not think he would be able to do much from there but it is a suitable question.
That depends. If he was convicted, probably not. But rapists are once in a while convicted, which leaves many women at the mercy of their rapists a SECOND time. In a perfect world, of course they wouldn't own any rights. But this is far from a perfect world, and rapists go free WAY more often than not. And even if they are convicted, it also depends on the state's law concerning parents with legal records. There are still plenty of ancestors parenting their kids, or sharing joint custody (or stopping adoptions), who have sexual offenses on their records (as long as it wasn't an offense against a minor, some states still allow sex offender to parent). So, yeah, often rapists DO have the right to stop an adoption.
Answers: Any parent have a right to petition for custody of a child. Is a convicted rapist in prison going to get custody of his child? No. Would he have a hit and miss to contest the adoption and have his mother (or other family member) petition for custody? Yes. If someone has simply claimed they be raped and no report was filed then the father have just as much chance getting custody (or stopping an adoption) as any other father.
In this day and age, with the state of our courts, it wouldn't surprise me if more than one rapist manage to actually get custody of a child who's the result of a rape.
This country is in trouble, within is no real justice, and hasn't been for a long time.
Nowadays, the target often ends up as the accused.
Rape, date rape in out of the ordinary, is often hard to prosecute successfully. The line between consensual sex and rape is tough to prove within terms of the legal definitions and tons women choose not to press charges to avoid having to re-live the situation and be cross-examined in court and thus opening their sexual history to scrutiny.
If the father have not been convicted, the adoption would be subject to all of the same court issues as if the sex was consensual.
I was raped. Became pregnant. Surrendered my precious child to adoption.
The raper had to sign the adoption papers. He be not convicted of raping me over a technicality, but was convicted of raping three others.
DEPENDANT on state law. Some states will say yes, as the father, the father has parental rights, but some state law say that if conception occurs during a crime, then no, but the crime would enjoy to be proven and statuatory rape wouldnt count, it would have to be forced rape. And, by the time the crime was proven, the child might be older than an infant,especially when it take 1-2 years to even get the first court date in most states.
above answerers, that's not how it would go. It would be more like, I never raped her! It was adjectives consensual! She's lying and now she's trying to give away _my_ baby!
I be set to, if he were a reasonable nice guy, he wouldn't be a rapist,right?
I would think if the rapist come forward, they'd be in jail...that's gotta affect parental rights, no?
no because that man would be a convicted felon and unable to exercise his parental rights from jail.
If he is a "convicted" rapist it would be dependent on state law.
If he has individual been accused of rape but not formally charged he still has full parental rights to the child as he isnt a rapist contained by the eyes of the court.
Nope because he would be in jail.
No he would not own any rights that I know of and if he does those parental rights would be terminated promptly.
nope
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Again, just wondering if others have thought of this or researched it.
I agree. If the rapist came forward during the adoption and said "I raped her! It's my kid!", after they'd be put in jail and it's hard to be a honest parent from jail.
I hope not, that's sinking to an all time low to allow someone who violated a woman and next does it again legally. Can you imagine the kind of crimes that would create if some unstable guy get it into his head he wanted to be a father...and that was the individual way he figures it could happen. sick...
I doubt if he's be changed he could stop it. From prison hows he going to raise a baby. And why would social services allow a man convicted of the kind of crime make higher the child? Imagine the physiological damage that could do to a kid. I know a lot of people here resembling to keep a child with the biological family no situation what, but to me thats extreme to hand a baby over to a father who raped the mother. In that DNA should be second to the childs well one.
Show like law and order want ratings. I suppose it makes a viewer think and view the show for the drama.
No I have not thought of this. But contained by order for him to even be able to say he is the father he would own to admit to raping the women and then he would go to top-security prison and I do not think he would be able to do much from there but it is a suitable question.
That depends. If he was convicted, probably not. But rapists are once in a while convicted, which leaves many women at the mercy of their rapists a SECOND time. In a perfect world, of course they wouldn't own any rights. But this is far from a perfect world, and rapists go free WAY more often than not. And even if they are convicted, it also depends on the state's law concerning parents with legal records. There are still plenty of ancestors parenting their kids, or sharing joint custody (or stopping adoptions), who have sexual offenses on their records (as long as it wasn't an offense against a minor, some states still allow sex offender to parent). So, yeah, often rapists DO have the right to stop an adoption.
Answers: Any parent have a right to petition for custody of a child. Is a convicted rapist in prison going to get custody of his child? No. Would he have a hit and miss to contest the adoption and have his mother (or other family member) petition for custody? Yes. If someone has simply claimed they be raped and no report was filed then the father have just as much chance getting custody (or stopping an adoption) as any other father.
In this day and age, with the state of our courts, it wouldn't surprise me if more than one rapist manage to actually get custody of a child who's the result of a rape.
This country is in trouble, within is no real justice, and hasn't been for a long time.
Nowadays, the target often ends up as the accused.
Rape, date rape in out of the ordinary, is often hard to prosecute successfully. The line between consensual sex and rape is tough to prove within terms of the legal definitions and tons women choose not to press charges to avoid having to re-live the situation and be cross-examined in court and thus opening their sexual history to scrutiny.
If the father have not been convicted, the adoption would be subject to all of the same court issues as if the sex was consensual.
I was raped. Became pregnant. Surrendered my precious child to adoption.
The raper had to sign the adoption papers. He be not convicted of raping me over a technicality, but was convicted of raping three others.
DEPENDANT on state law. Some states will say yes, as the father, the father has parental rights, but some state law say that if conception occurs during a crime, then no, but the crime would enjoy to be proven and statuatory rape wouldnt count, it would have to be forced rape. And, by the time the crime was proven, the child might be older than an infant,especially when it take 1-2 years to even get the first court date in most states.
above answerers, that's not how it would go. It would be more like, I never raped her! It was adjectives consensual! She's lying and now she's trying to give away _my_ baby!
I be set to, if he were a reasonable nice guy, he wouldn't be a rapist,right?
I would think if the rapist come forward, they'd be in jail...that's gotta affect parental rights, no?
no because that man would be a convicted felon and unable to exercise his parental rights from jail.
If he is a "convicted" rapist it would be dependent on state law.
If he has individual been accused of rape but not formally charged he still has full parental rights to the child as he isnt a rapist contained by the eyes of the court.
Nope because he would be in jail.
No he would not own any rights that I know of and if he does those parental rights would be terminated promptly.
nope
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