Epic win for a three year old little boy who narrowly misses being lost to adoption!

[avebury]

147. Based upon the article, it sounded like this young

man began the fight for his son as soon as he became aware the his son was put up for adoption (even dropping out of college). I am not going to blame him on the issue of the putative father registry because just how many young guys even know that it exists? He was not from Missouri but from Oklahoma.

As to the young man's failure to act within 15 days of the child's birth. There was recently been extensive discussion on DU about father's rights with the majority of DUers coming down on the side that a father has no rights until after the birth of a child (and a NJ judge even stating that a father does not even have the right to know when his child is born.) I made the point at that time that it would be very easy for a woman to pull a fast one and put her child up for adoption before a father even had a chance to find out the child was born. How on earth can you hold any man to a 15 day post birth rule if there is a valid chance he might not know anything within that 15 day window?

Any adoptive set of parents might think that they are participating in a legal adoption but that is rather foolish thinking given the fact that the lack of rights granted to biological fathers can result in a child being literally stolen right out from underneath them and delaying their ability to mount a legal defense to any said adoption. You cannot hold it against a biological dad what has happened because of a deceptive biological mother. Some women may have a valid reason to put a child up for adoption but that does not mean they have a right to circumvent the law doing so.

This young man appears to be a decent young man who is setting out to take care of his son, including going back to college. Good for him.