Sounds like a scam to steal this guy's delicious spleen to me.

umm

i thought adoption had to be done with consent of the father?

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It's probably best that he doesn't see him, as he's hideously deformed.

Why would they need his spleen? DRTFA.

Express Train to Bonertown: It's probably best that he doesn't see him, as he's hideously deformed.

This

Article doesn't mention spleen. I just used spleen because it's funny. Spleen.

/Subby.

Express Train to Bonertown: It's probably best that he doesn't see him, as he's hideously deformed.

I shall call him.....Kaleidoscope Head.

You can have my spleen when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers...

/what?

I was sure the last part of the headline was a joke. Really sure. Submitter must have tacked on a Meaning of Life reference to make it sound funnier.

i thought adoption had to be done with consent of the father?

In America there have been some adoptions undone due to lack of notice to the father.

In the legal notices section of the newspaper you may find a little box calling on the unnamed father of some child to show up for a custody-related hearing. That is intended to substitute for personal notice. Sometimes the father finds out later and gets his kid back because that wasn't an adequate substitute.

In the context of tax liens the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that notice must be given by some means that would be used by a person who actually wants the recipient to get the message. Parental rights are more important than property rights.

I have to admire the logic in publishing a photo of a person with the face scrambled. What purpose did that serve?

Kids, this is why you use protection. So shiat like this won't come back and bite you in the ass.

Not amused.

What good are his foster parents if they'll let him just wander into someone's copy of Photoshop? What's happened is awful enough, but what if he had been smudged? Or had his contrast adjusted?

Wait, I may be on to something here. Get the clone stamp out and we'll make him a twin brother to harvest organs from.

I wonder if his current wife is a preacher...she looks like she's wearing a 'collar'.

"we've come for your liver."

"you can't have it, I'm using it"

"what's that? AHA! just as we suspected: an organ donor card."

Generally the consent of the father is required, but only if you can get notice to the father. It's possible however that the mother did not know how to contact the father, in which case notice by publication in a newspaper would have been all that was required and all that was likely possible at the time.

Did anyone vote on these crazy adoption rules in the nanny state? Sounds like the arbitrary whims of petty tyrants to me.

I say let the little bastard die. If the child isn't his son as far as the law is concerned, then he owes the child nothing.

Ok, I missed the fact, she is a preacher

Sounds about right. Fathers have no rights in the nanny state. Unshackled feminism ftw!

Walker: Express Train to Bonertown: It's probably best that he doesn't see him, as he's hideously deformed.

I shall call him.....Kaleidoscope Head.

AKA Mosaic Face

I was adopted and my father doesn't know I exist so I'm getting a real kick out of...


/really.
//I know who he is, Birthmom told me.
///I live within driving distance... I just don't want to have a Springer moment. "o Hai, remember, 30 years ago...." Yeah.

That's about as farked-up and heartwrenching a story as I've ever read.

cowsspinach: Kids, this is why you use protection. So shiat like this won't come back and bite you in the ass.

I've never been bit in the ass by my poop, thank you very much.

/just splashed

Yeah, we need more government control of people's lives. Take a good look at the farked up society that is England and see what America will soon become. More government employees making decisions about your personal lives.

Samwise Gamgee: That's about as farked-up and heartwrenching a story as I've ever read.

Agreed - What a dilemma. If i were him I would make some ultimatum to social services. Like "I'll consent to giving my spleen if you give me my son." Like the judgement of Solomon. If the new family really loves the child, they will give him up.

That poor man... and his family. It amazes me the lack of common sense in the rest of the people involved in this story.

Damn, that is severely farked up. Their government needs to do more about kids getting stabbed and old people getting beat up than interfering in people's lives and causing fiascos like this.

Guy should do the right thing and fark with the bureaucrats at the same time--"Sure, you can have a lobe of my liver or one of my kidneys, right after I get to meet my son."

shiat, that kid's revolting. I hope he's getting a face transplant.

FTA: The Mail on Sunday asked Hampshire County Council two months ago about its handling of the case.

It responded by obtaining a legal injunction to prevent us printing Michael's story, claiming that to do so might damage his son's chances of settling down.


Determined that Michael should get the chance to speak, The Mail on Sunday has pursued a lengthy legal fight to lift the injunction, and last week we succeeded. Today, in this exclusive interview, Michael is able to talk about his ordeal for the first time.

Freedom of the press biatches!! In your face Hampshire county council.

Wait till he's in the recovery room and then...


HAHA! We GOT you!

Actually, ok, lemme point out THERE'S ONLY ONE SPLEEN in the body. Not two spleens. Not a spleen you can split in two. They're saying you can get by without it... if so, why can't the kid get by without it?

Seriously, if you Google "spleen transplant" there are links to highly experimental procedures, which seem to be for nonessential conditions. Some links are for combining spleen transplants with liver or other essential-function transplants to prevent rejection, which is not the case since these other organs would have had to come from him.

So WTF is this mystery spleen condition and why do they think a spleen transplant will be successful??

How about this for a law...

If a woman bears a child, she MUST inform any and all men she believes may be the natural father of the child BEFORE the child is born. Failure to do so constititues a jailable offense.

This would cut down on welfare, for sure, as a lot of dads would happily pay for their kids if they knew they existed.

skwerl: Yeah, we need more government control of people's lives. Take a good look at the farked up society that is England and see what America will soon become. More government employees making decisions about your personal lives.

Your mother takes it up the shiatter.

vsavatar: Generally the consent of the father is required, but only if you can get notice to the father. It's possible however that the mother did not know how to contact the father, in which case notice by publication in a newspaper would have been all that was required and all that was likely possible at the time.

Yeah, they can't find the father till his merits as an organ donor come into play. Then, ta-daa! HERE he is...

/sometimes all they need is just a little motivation

Harsh as it sounds, I wonder if the dad can say "yeah, I'll do the operation - IF you let me have a relationship with the kid."

It sounds like he has leverage at this point - but yeah, harsh story all round.

The biological father was misinformed prior to the adoption process.

This is just further the proof that society commodifies the father as a resource to be exhausted and discarded.

They only found him to see if they could have his organ.

Let's see here, the biological mother drank, didn't tell the father she was pregnant, and now her kid has some fatal disease. Then she won't give up an organ (I'm guessing kidney) because she wants to have another crotch spawn? Don't they have laws against that in ye olde nanny state?

Also, it says that the bio-mom swore in front of daddy's other kids. If she met his family then it's a pretty safe bet that she had been to his home at some point, so there is really no excuse for not notifying him as soon as she wanted to give up the kid. Also, they met through "friends," so there's another avenue for locating pops. They didn't even try to find this poor schmuck.

the key here is to ensure that the "short lived relationship"-whore that discarded the child without checking with his father ends up completely broken. take every cent of her money. then pull a peter griffin and "expose" the foster parents for the drug peddling, whore screwing monsters they are. finally profit by making the government pay for the child's mental health issues caused by him being screwed around by the system and his distress in finding out that his foster parents were horrible monsters.

/i love the state of fathers rights in so-called enlightened societies.
//fark great britain, bunch of nanny state ninny biatches.

Social services can't be entirely blamed here - I mean, they seem to have broken their own rules already for the sake of this child.

The blame here goes to the deadbeat mother who didn't even bother telling this man that he was the father.

Really shiatty situation.

The government farked up - big time. They were required to inform him about the adoption process but didn't.

Betcha someone got lazy and now when the kid is threatened, NOW the bureaucrats decide to take the effort to find the fecking father.

Hopefully the public decry would actually give the red tape sheep-suckers some bullocks.

How long before the nanny state passes a law that in addition to everything that has happened so far, the man is forced to give up his spleen against his will?

I like to rip on the Brits like everyone else here, but this is honestly one of the most upsetting and disturbing stories I've ever read. I really hope that maybe there's more to it than the paper was sharing (It is the Daily Mail after all).

Occam's Nailfile: How about this for a law...

If a woman bears a child, she MUST inform any and all men she believes may be the natural father of the child BEFORE the child is born. Failure to do so constititues a jailable offense.

This would cut down on welfare, for sure, as a lot of dads would happily pay for their kids if they knew they existed.

THIS. The majority of men here don't shirk of the responsibility of being a father. - only when they feel like they're being scammed ala springer style.

/ Real men are daddies.

Man, you Nanny State trolls are really creaming your pants over this one. Hope it's all okay in the Fundamentalist Christian Republic of America.

ha ha guy: Sounds about right. Fathers have no rights in the nanny state. Unshackled feminism ftw!

Between the stories I've read and the few custody battles I've seen, it seems like fathers in the U.S. don't have it much better.

When will we see the follow up article where the family who adopts the kid sues the father for child support? People will try anything for money.

From the article:
Social Services told me in our first phone conversation that Andrew's mother had named me as the father.

Umm, so a woman with a drinking problem and some emotional issues names this guy as the father. A guy who seemed very surprised that he could have gotten her pregnant. Two words: PATERNITY TEST.

Has Social Services actually bothered to check DNA before asking him to give up one of his freaking organs?

Oznog: Actually, ok, lemme point out THERE'S ONLY ONE SPLEEN in the body. Not two spleens. Not a spleen you can split in two. They're saying you can get by without it... if so, why can't the kid get by without it?

So WTF is this mystery spleen condition and why do they think a spleen transplant will be successful??

From the thread (huh. no acronym for it.) The subby said he used spleen as humor.

/Spleen's a funny word

CrispFlows: From the thread (huh. no acronym for it.) The subby said he used spleen as humor.

He was just venting his...