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Hi, NYCMedic,
I suppose the circumstances do depend on whether termination of parental rights result in no more responsibility for child support. In your case, your ex's abandonment of his child certainly means that he is an unfit parent. I can certainly understand why you took the steps you did. I've heard of fathers who abandon their children, only to come back years later and totally disrupt their lives...using their so-called "parental rights".
I was just concerned that some of the BWs and their WHs might think that relinquishing the WH's parental rights might get them off the CS hook, when it doesn't. That's a whole 'nother story from the custodial mother arranging to terminate the father's rights...and, I do think there have to be extinuating circumstances (such as yours) for the mother to be able to do so, doesn't there? LC
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