What Kind of Person Kidnaps their Child Away from their Ex?
Posted by: kstewart in Untagged on
Jul 22, 2010
Is there ever a good reason?
When it comes to these questions, it is sometimes very easy to judge and take a black and white position. Most would respond with “it is never OK” but what in the case where the system has failed to protect the child and the parent flees to protect the child from their worst fear – murder or murder suicide. We know that this happens and we know that in most of these cases there were signs and further that these signs were ignored by the court system. What would you do if you really felt in your heart of hearts that your ex was capable of killing your child.? Would you run? Would you risk going to jail for kidnapping and perhaps then leaving them with the person you are so afraid of. Are you projecting your own fears or is the fear truly warranted.
Our system has not done a good job of protecting many innocent children and there is not likely a short-term solution that will really make a huge difference. We need to start pressing hard with the questions so that in time we can formulate the answers. Brilliance is in knowing the questions to ask and then trusting that in time the solutions will reveal themselves. We need to be ruthless about figuring out the questions to ask so we can formulate the answers and change our system. Of course some will fall through the cracks. That is life, but we have too many that have fallen hard.




